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Greek Theatre Index - English
URL: http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/greek.html

Index of articles on ancient Greek Theatre.

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Fiddler on the Roof - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/Studio/8849/Moviemusicals/Fiddler/tevye.

From stage to screen: differences between the original and film versions of famous musicals.

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Moonstruck Drama Bookstore - plays, cast albums, sheet music, theatre news & m - English
URL: http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/index.htm

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Online source for plays, ast albums, sheet music, theatre news, and more!

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Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) - English
URL: http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/marlowe.htm

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Biography, portrait, his works, bibliography etc.

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Playwrights' Workshop Montreal - English
URL: http://www.playwrightsworkshop.org/

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Playwrights' Workshop Montreal is a professional theatre centre dedicated to developing contemporary work and new writers for the Canadian stage.

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Existentialism and Samuel Beckett - English
URL: http://members.aol.com/KatharenaE/private/Philo/Existentialism/absurd.html

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Katharena Eiermann's tribute to existentialism, Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Absurd. Site includes biography, essays, articles, photos, quotes and links to related sites on the WWW.

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Turgenev, Ivan: Bartleby.com - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/people/Turgenev.html

1818–83, Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer, considered one of the foremost Russian writers.… His masterpiece, Fathers and Sons (1862), deals with nihilist philosophy and personal and social rebellion.

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The Gabriel Marcel Society - English
URL: http://www.lemoyne.edu/gms/

Gabriel Marcel (1889-1973) Paris, France was a Dramatist-Philosopher of international renown. Many of his thirty plays were staged in major theaters of Europe, produced by university theater groups, and broadcast by radio as well. Marcel authored as many philosophic works, and was a lecturer sought after by audiences around the world. After Marcel's death October 8, 1973 his family, colleagues, and friends in France started the Association Internationale Presence de Gabriel Marcel, 21 rue de Tournon, 75006 Paris, France. In 1986 a Gabriel Marcel Society was formed in the United States. It is our hope is that this page on the Internet will facilitate communication and increased appreciation of Marcel's work among English-speaking scholars and friends.

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Bergman, Hjalmar. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/BergmnH.html

Swedish novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer. A popular and prolific writer, Bergman wrote from the background of an unhappy childhood and chronic mental depression. His works are characterized by insight into the ambivalence of human emotions. Bergman’s individual style combines a basically pessimistic view with ironic humor, as in the play Swedenhielms [the Swedenhielm family] (1925) and the novels God’s Orchid (1919, tr. 1924) and The Head of the Firm (1924, tr. 1936).

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Moberg, Vilhelm. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/mo/Moberg-V.html

Swedish novelist and dramatist. Substantial recognition came with his partly autobiographical Knut Toring trilogy (1935–39; tr. The Earth is Ours, 1940). The historical novel Ride This Night! (1941, tr. 1943) was Moberg’s impassioned argument against totalitarianism. His epic of Swedish emigration to the United States includes The Emigrants (1949, tr. 1951), Unto a Good Land (1952, tr. 1954), The Settlers (1956), and The Last Letter to Sweden (1959, tr. 1961)

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Vilhelm Moberg - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vmoberg.htm

Swedish novelist and dramatist, best known for his four volume story (1949-1959) of Småland peasants, who leave famine-stricken Sweden for America, and build a homestead in Minnesota. Moberg was one of the most frequently performed radio playwrights. His dramas - among them ÄNKEMAN JARL (1939), VÅR OFÖDDE SON (1945), DOMAREN (1957) - were televised in Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia. Other plays, such as Ride Tonight (1942) and Man's Woman (1943), were made into movies in the 1940s.

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Enquist, Per Olov. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/en/Enquist.html

Swedish novelist and dramatist. During a highly productive period in the 1960s and 70s and frequently thereafter, Enquist has based much of his work on historical figures and events. His novel The Legionnaires (1968, tr. 1973) examines the life of refugees in Sweden after World War II.

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Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/fglorca.htm

Spanish poet and dramatist, a talented artist and a member of the 'Generation of 1927', a group of writers who advocated avant-gardism in literature. Among García Lorca's best-known plays is Blood Wedding (1933), a story of a bride who runs away with a previous lover, and is subsequently murdered by her husband. After a period of great creative activity, García Lorca was shot by Falangist soldiers in the opening days of the Spanish Civil war. In both his drama and poetry García Lorca balanced between the traditional and the modern, between mythology and contemporary cultural trends.

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Sastre, Alfonso. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Sastre-A.html

Spanish dramatist, essayist, and critic, b. Madrid. Approaching his work from a Marxist and existentialist point of view, he explores the problems of society’s needy and rejected and pleads for justice in a world free of violence and hatred. His plays include Escuadra hacia la muerte [death squad] (1953), La mordaza [the gag] (1954), La cornade [death thrust] (1960), and Tragicomedia de la gitana Celestina [tragicomedy of the Gypsy Celestina] (1984).

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AllRefer Encyclopedia - Alfonso Sastre - English
URL: http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/S/Sastre-A.html

Spanish dramatist, essayist, and critic, b. Madrid. Approaching his work from a Marxist and existentialist point of view, he explores the problems of society's needy and rejected and pleads for justice in a world free of violence and hatred. His plays include Escuadra hacia la muerte [death squad] (1953), La mordaza [the gag] (1954), La cornade [death thrust] (1960), and Tragicomedia de la gitana Celestina [tragicomedy of the Gypsy Celestina] (1984).

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AllRefer Encyclopedia - Jacinto Grau (Spanish And Portuguese Literature, Biographies) - Encyclopedia - English
URL: http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/G/Grau-Jac.html

Spanish dramatist, b. Barcelona. Participating in Spain's early-20th-century literary renaissance, Grau slowly gained recognition for his strikingly original plays. El conde Alarcos (1917) and a biblical drama, El hijo prOdigo (1918), are well known, but his masterpiece is El senor de PigmaliOn (1921), a blend of allegory, lyrical fantasy, and buffoonery. After the Spanish civil war, Grau went to Argentina, where he spent the rest of his life.

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Grau, Jacinto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/gr/Grau-Jac.html

Spanish dramatist, b. Barcelona. Participating in Spain’s early-20th-century literary renaissance, Grau slowly gained recognition for his strikingly original plays. El conde Alarcos (1917) and a biblical drama, El hijo pródigo (1918), are well known, but his masterpiece is El señor de Pigmalión (1921), a blend of allegory, lyrical fantasy, and buffoonery. After the Spanish civil war, Grau went to Argentina, where he spent the rest of his life.

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Benavente y Martinez, Jacinto. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 - English
URL: http://www.bartleby.com/65/be/Benavent.html

Spanish dramatist, b. Madrid. He was awarded the 1922 Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known play is Los intereses creados (1907, tr. Bonds of Interest, 1917), a farce written on the pattern of the Italian commedia dell’arte.

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Jacinto Benavente - English
URL: http://www.geocities.com/pepa_depo/benavente/

One of the most important Spanish dramatists of the 20th century and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Benavente wrote over 170 plays. In his early works he exposed prejudices of the upper middle class and society's defects, without being a social reformer. Benavente's second, conservative half of his literary career, is considered a long decline.

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Jacinto Benavente - English
URL: http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/benavent.htm

One of the most important Spanish dramatists of the 20th century and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1922. Benavente wrote over 170 plays. In his early works he exposed prejudices of the upper middle class and society's defects, without being a social reformer. Benavente's second, conservative half of his literary career, is considered a long decline.

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