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Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564-30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.
Stratford England birthplace of Shakespeare
Lope de Vega Flix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (usually called simply Lope de Vega; 25 November 1562 - 27 August 1635) was one of the important playwrights and poets of the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature.
Manuel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus Don Quixote, often considered the first modern novel.
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Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony is the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters
Niccolo Machiavelli Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian philosopher and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.
Carlo Gozzi Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 - April 4, 1806) was an Italian dramatist, known for his play The Green Bird.
Moliere Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molire, (; January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
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Richard Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 - 7 July 1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The School for Scandal The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy, intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority.
Edwin Booth Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 - June 7, 1893) was a famous 19th century American actor who toured throughout America and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays.
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Proscenium Arch A Proscenium theatre is a theatre space whose primary feature is a large frame or arch (called the proscenium arch even though it is frequently not a rounded archway at all), which is located at or near the front of the stage.
Faust Faust or (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German legend.
Dion Boucicault an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre
Footlights Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England founded in 1883, run by the students of Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University.
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Marxism the foundation of Communism idea that society should be classless
George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen (; 20 March 1828 - 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.
Anton Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature
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Maxim Gorki was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
Cyrano de Bergerac French dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story
Theatre of Absurd s a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction, written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work expressed the belief that, in a godless universe, human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down
Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French.
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Eugene Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Sean O’Casey Sen O'Casey (Irish: Sen Cathasaigh, born John Casey) (30 March 1880 in Dublin, Ireland; 18 September 1964 in Torquay, England) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist.
Eugene O’Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 - 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.
George M. Cohan known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer. EX give my regards to broadway, yankee doodle boy
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George Gershwin composed music for both Broadway and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public.
In Dahomey In Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy, in that it was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." It featured music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A.
Show Boat Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. produced by Ziegfeld
Jerome Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
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Constantin Stanislavski a Russian actor and theatre director. founded the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time.
Dalton Trumbo American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee
Oskar Eustis the artistic director at the Public Theater
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George C. Wolfe Director of off broadway in film
Andrew Lloyd Weber is an English composer of musical theatre.
Eugene Ionesco playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Neil Simon Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
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Richard B Sheridan wrote the school for scandal
Nahum Tate worked with McDowell at Riverside Shakespeare Company!
Hal Prince is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century.
Jerome Robbins choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television.
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Joseph Papp established the public theatre in NY
George Méliès revolutionary filmmaker made a trip to the moon
Choregos Old greek term for a producer
Tetrology A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four (numerical prefix ) distinct works, just as a trilogy is made up of three works.
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Plautus Roman Playwright of the Old Latin period his comedies are the earliest surviving works of Latin literature
Seneca was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist
Denouement Dramatic structure is the structure of a dramatic work such as a play or film.
Tragedy Aristotle provides the earliest origin in his "Poetics"
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Caesar Augustus Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC - 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.
Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564-30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.
Stratford England birthplace of Shakespeare
Lope de Vega Flix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (usually called simply Lope de Vega; 25 November 1562 - 27 August 1635) was one of the important playwrights and poets of the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature.
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Manuel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus Don Quixote, often considered the first modern novel.
Dramatic Irony Dramatic irony is the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters
Niccolo Machiavelli Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian philosopher and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.
Carlo Gozzi Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 - April 4, 1806) was an Italian dramatist, known for his play The Green Bird.
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Moliere Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molire, (; January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
Richard Sheridan Richard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 - 7 July 1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
The School for Scandal The School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy, intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority.
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Edwin Booth Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 - June 7, 1893) was a famous 19th century American actor who toured throughout America and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays.
Proscenium Arch A Proscenium theatre is a theatre space whose primary feature is a large frame or arch (called the proscenium arch even though it is frequently not a rounded archway at all), which is located at or near the front of the stage.
Faust Faust or (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German legend.
Dion Boucicault an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre
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Footlights Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England founded in 1883, run by the students of Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University.
Marxism the foundation of Communism idea that society should be classless
George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
Henrik Ibsen Henrik Ibsen (; 20 March 1828 - 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.
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Anton Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature
Maxim Gorki was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
Cyrano de Bergerac French dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story
Theatre of Absurd s a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction, written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work expressed the belief that, in a godless universe, human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down
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Samuel Beckett Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French.
Eugene Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
Sean O’Casey Sen O'Casey (Irish: Sen Cathasaigh, born John Casey) (30 March 1880 in Dublin, Ireland; 18 September 1964 in Torquay, England) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist.
Eugene O’Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 - 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.
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George M. Cohan known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer. EX give my regards to broadway, yankee doodle boy
George Gershwin composed music for both Broadway and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public.
In Dahomey In Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy, in that it was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house." It featured music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A.
Show Boat Show Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. produced by Ziegfeld
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Jerome Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
Constantin Stanislavski a Russian actor and theatre director. founded the Moscow Art Theatre
Moscow Art Theatre It was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time.
Dalton Trumbo American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee
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Oskar Eustis the artistic director at the Public Theater
George C. Wolfe Director of off broadway in film
Andrew Lloyd Weber is an English composer of musical theatre.
Eugene Ionesco playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
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Neil Simon Neil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
Richard B Sheridan wrote the school for scandal
Nahum Tate worked with McDowell at Riverside Shakespeare Company!
Hal Prince is an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century.
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Jerome Robbins choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television.
Joseph Papp established the public theatre in NY
George Méliès revolutionary filmmaker made a trip to the moon
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 Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564-30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.
 Stratford Englandbirthplace of Shakespeare
 Lope de VegaFlix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (usually called simply Lope de Vega; 25 November 1562 - 27 August 1635) was one of the important playwrights and poets of the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature.
 Manuel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus Don Quixote, often considered the first modern novel.
 Dramatic IronyDramatic irony is the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters
 Niccolo MachiavelliNiccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian philosopher and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.
 Carlo Gozzi Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 - April 4, 1806) was an Italian dramatist, known for his play The Green Bird.
 MoliereJean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molire, (; January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
 Richard SheridanRichard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 - 7 July 1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
 The School for ScandalThe School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
 Age of EnlightenmentThe Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy, intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority.
 Edwin Booth Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 - June 7, 1893) was a famous 19th century American actor who toured throughout America and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays.
 Proscenium ArchA Proscenium theatre is a theatre space whose primary feature is a large frame or arch (called the proscenium arch even though it is frequently not a rounded archway at all), which is located at or near the front of the stage.
 FaustFaust or (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German legend.
 Dion Boucicault an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre
 FootlightsCambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England founded in 1883, run by the students of Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University.
 Marxismthe foundation of Communism
idea that society should be classless
 George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
 Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen (; 20 March 1828 - 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.
 Anton Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature
 Maxim Gorki was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
 Cyrano de BergeracFrench dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story
 Theatre of Absurds a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction, written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work expressed the belief that, in a godless universe, human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down
 Samuel BeckettSamuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French.
 Eugene Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist,

one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
 Sean O’CaseySen O'Casey (Irish: Sen Cathasaigh, born John Casey) (30 March 1880 in Dublin, Ireland; 18 September 1964 in Torquay, England) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist.
 Eugene O’NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 - 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.
 George M. Cohan known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer.

EX give my regards to broadway, yankee doodle boy
 George Gershwincomposed music for both Broadway and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public.
 In DahomeyIn Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy, in that it was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house."

It featured music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A.
 Show BoatShow Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

produced by Ziegfeld
 Jerome Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
 Constantin Stanislavski a Russian actor and theatre director.
founded the Moscow Art Theatre
 Moscow Art TheatreIt was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time.
 Dalton Trumbo American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee
 Oskar Eustisthe artistic director at the Public Theater
 George C. WolfeDirector of off broadway in film
 Andrew Lloyd Weberis an English composer of musical theatre.
 Eugene Ionesco playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
 Neil SimonNeil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
 Richard B Sheridanwrote the school for scandal
 Nahum Tateworked with McDowell at Riverside Shakespeare Company!
 Hal Princeis an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century.
 Jerome Robbins choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television.
 Joseph Pappestablished the public theatre in NY
 George Mélièsrevolutionary filmmaker

made a trip to the moon
 Choregos Old greek term for a producer
 Tetrology A tetralogy is a compound work that is made up of four (numerical prefix ) distinct works, just as a trilogy is made up of three works.
 PlautusRoman Playwright of the Old Latin period
his comedies are the earliest surviving works of Latin literature

 Senecawas a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist
 DenouementDramatic structure is the structure of a dramatic work such as a play or film.
 TragedyAristotle provides the earliest origin in his "Poetics"
 Caesar AugustusGaius Julius Caesar Augustus (23 September 63 BC - 19 August AD 14) is considered the first emperor of the Roman Empire, which he ruled alone from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.
 Christopher MarloweChristopher Marlowe (baptised 26 February 1564-30 May 1593) was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era.
 Stratford Englandbirthplace of Shakespeare
 Lope de VegaFlix Arturo Lope de Vega y Carpio (usually called simply Lope de Vega; 25 November 1562 - 27 August 1635) was one of the important playwrights and poets of the Spanish Golden Century Baroque literature.
 Manuel de Cervantes was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright. His magnum opus Don Quixote, often considered the first modern novel.
 Dramatic IronyDramatic irony is the device of giving the spectator an item of information that at least one of the characters in the narrative is unaware of (at least consciously), thus placing the spectator a step ahead of at least one of the characters
 Niccolo MachiavelliNiccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian philosopher and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.
 Carlo Gozzi Carlo, Count Gozzi (13 December 1720 - April 4, 1806) was an Italian dramatist, known for his play The Green Bird.
 MoliereJean-Baptiste Poquelin, mostly known by his stage name Molire, (; January 15, 1622 - February 17, 1673) was a French playwright and actor who is considered one of the greatest masters of comedy in Western literature.
 Richard SheridanRichard Brinsley Sheridan (30 October 1751 - 7 July 1816) was an Irish-born playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
 The School for ScandalThe School for Scandal is a play written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
 Age of EnlightenmentThe Age of Enlightenment (or simply the Enlightenment) is the era in Western philosophy, intellectual, scientific and cultural life, centered upon the 18th century, in which reason was advocated as the primary source for legitimacy and authority.
 Edwin Booth Edwin Thomas Booth (November 13, 1833 - June 7, 1893) was a famous 19th century American actor who toured throughout America and the major capitals of Europe, performing Shakespearean plays.
 Proscenium ArchA Proscenium theatre is a theatre space whose primary feature is a large frame or arch (called the proscenium arch even though it is frequently not a rounded archway at all), which is located at or near the front of the stage.
 FaustFaust or (Latin for "auspicious" or "lucky") is the protagonist of a classic German legend.
 Dion Boucicault an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas. By the later part of the 19th century, Boucicault had become known on both sides of the Atlantic as one of the most successful actor-playwright-managers then in the English-speaking theatre
 FootlightsCambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England founded in 1883, run by the students of Cambridge University and Anglia Ruskin University.
 Marxismthe foundation of Communism
idea that society should be classless
 George Bernard ShawGeorge Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 - 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
 Henrik IbsenHenrik Ibsen (; 20 March 1828 - 23 May 1906) was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet.
 Anton Chekhov was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the greatest short-story writers in the history of world literature
 Maxim Gorki was a Russian/Soviet author, a founder of the socialist realism literary method and a political activist.
 Cyrano de BergeracFrench dramatist and duellist who is now best remembered for the many works of fiction which have been woven around his life story
 Theatre of Absurds a designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction, written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, as well as to the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work expressed the belief that, in a godless universe, human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down
 Samuel BeckettSamuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 - 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet, writing in English and French.
 Eugene Ionesco was a Romanian and French playwright and dramatist,

one of the foremost playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
 Sean O’CaseySen O'Casey (Irish: Sen Cathasaigh, born John Casey) (30 March 1880 in Dublin, Ireland; 18 September 1964 in Torquay, England) was a major Irish dramatist and memoirist.
 Eugene O’NeillEugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 - 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.
 George M. Cohan known professionally as George M. Cohan, was an American entertainer, playwright, composer, lyricist, actor, singer, dancer, and producer.

EX give my regards to broadway, yankee doodle boy
 George Gershwincomposed music for both Broadway and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public.
 In DahomeyIn Dahomey was a landmark American musical comedy, in that it was "the first full-length musical written and played by blacks to be performed at a major Broadway house."

It featured music by Will Marion Cook, book by Jesse A.
 Show BoatShow Boat is a musical in two acts with music by Jerome Kern and book and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

produced by Ziegfeld
 Jerome Kern was an American composer of musical theatre and popular music.
 Constantin Stanislavski a Russian actor and theatre director.
founded the Moscow Art Theatre
 Moscow Art TheatreIt was conceived as a venue for naturalistic theatre, in contrast to the melodramas that were Russia's dominant form of theatre at the time.
 Dalton Trumbo American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee
 Oskar Eustisthe artistic director at the Public Theater
 George C. WolfeDirector of off broadway in film
 Andrew Lloyd Weberis an English composer of musical theatre.
 Eugene Ionesco playwrights of the Theatre of the Absurd.
 Neil SimonNeil Simon (born July 4, 1927) is an American playwright and screenwriter.
 Richard B Sheridanwrote the school for scandal
 Nahum Tateworked with McDowell at Riverside Shakespeare Company!
 Hal Princeis an American theatrical producer and director associated with many of the best-known Broadway musical productions of the past half-century.
 Jerome Robbins choreographer known primarily for Broadway Theater and Ballet/Dance, but who also occasionally directed films and directed/produced for television.
 Joseph Pappestablished the public theatre in NY
 George Mélièsrevolutionary filmmaker

made a trip to the moon
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