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Person, Playwright, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Film writerAristophanes (, in English, ca. 456 BC – ca. 386 BC), son of Philippus, was a Greek Old Comic dramatist. He is also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy. The place and exact date of his birth are unknown, but he was around thirty in the...
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Person, Playwright, Deceased Person, Poet, Influence Node, AuthorAeschylus ( or , Greek: Ασχύλος, Aiskúlos, 525 BC/524 BC – 456 BC/455 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedians whose plays survive, the others being Sophocles...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Playwright, Award WinnerArthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of plays, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View...
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Person, Film writer, Physician, Author, Deceased Person, Film story contributor, Influence Node, PlaywrightAnton Pavlovich Chekhov (, ) was a Russia short story writer and playwright. He was born in Taganrog, southern Russia, on , and died of tuberculosis at the health spa of Badenweiler, Germany, on . His playwriting career produced four classics, while his best short...
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Person, Film writer, Playwright, Theater Director, Film story contributor, Film producerArthur Laurents (born July 14, 1918) is an American playwright, novelist, screenwriter, librettist and stage director. Laurents was born in New York City to a Jewish family. After studying at Cornell University and a stint in the Army, he began writing scripts for...
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Person, Film writer, Film producer, Deceased Person, Theatrical Lyricist, Playwright, Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Lyricist, Songwriter, ComposerAlan Jay Lerner (August 31, 1918 – June 14, 1986) was an American Broadway lyricist and librettist. Together with Frederick Loewe, he created some of the world's most popular and enduring works of musical theatre. Lerner wrote the lyrics for some of the theatre's most...
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Person, Film writer, Playwright, Deceased Person, Poet, Influence Node, Musical Artist, AuthorEuripides (Ancient Greek: ) (ca. 480 BC–406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens (the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles). Ancient scholars thought that Euripides had written ninety-five plays, although four of those were probably...
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Person, Film writer, Deceased Person, Award Winner, PlaywrightGeorge Kaufman (November 16 1889 - June 2 1961) was an American playwright, theatre director and producer, humorist, and drama critic. Born to a Jewish family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Kaufman added the middle initial to his name to lend it balance and rhythm. He...
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Person, Film writer, Deceased Person, Playwright, Notable author of a literary movement, Influence NodeHenrik Johan Ibsen (March 20, 1828–May 23, 1906) was a major Norwegian playwright largely responsible for the rise of modern realistic drama. He is often referred to as the "father of modern drama."Ibsen is held to be the greatest of Norwegian authors and one of the...
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Person, Playwright, Deceased Person, Author, Influence Node, Film writer, Founder/significant follower, Notable author of a literary movementJean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (June 21, 1905 – April 15, 1980), normally known simply as Jean-Paul Sartre , was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic. He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy...
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Person, Film director, Film writer, Film music contributor, Film actor, Film producer, TV Actor, TV Program Creator, Playwright, Musical Artist, Influence NodeMel Brooks (born "Melvin Kaminsky" June 28, 1926) is an American multi-award winning director, writer, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer best known as a creator of broad film farce and comedy parodies. Brooks is a member of the short list of...
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Person, Film writer, Film producer, Playwright, Award WinnerNeil Simon (born Marvin Neil Simon on July_4, 1927 in The Bronx, New York City), is an American playwright and screenwriter. He is one of the most reliable hitmakers in Broadway history, as well as one of the most performed playwrights in the world. From the mid...
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Person, Film writer, Film music contributor, Deceased Person, Theatrical Composer, Composer, Theatrical Lyricist, Playwright, Songwriter, Musical Group Member, Musical Artist, Lyricist, Award WinnerOscar Hammerstein II (born Oscar Greeley Clendenning Hammerstein) (July 12, 1895 – August 23, 1960) was an American writer, producer, and (usually uncredited) director of musicals for almost forty years. He was twice awarded an Oscar for "Best Original Song," and much...
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Person, Author, Deceased Person, Playwright, Bearded FreakRobert Anton Wilson or RAW (born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007) was an American novelist, essayist and student of conspiracy theories. A fringe philosopher, psychologist of subversion, tireless psychonaut, futurologist and lifelong...
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Person, Playwright, Deceased Person, Influence NodeSophocles or Sofokles (; ancient Greek , ; circa. 496 BC - 406 BC) was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived to the present day. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than those of Euripides....
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Person, Author, Deceased Person, Poet, Playwright, Fictional Character Creator, Influence Node, Film writer, Notable author of a literary movement, Award WinnerSamuel Barclay Beckett (13 April, 1906 – 22 December, 1989) was an Irish writer, dramatist and poet. Beckett's work is stark and fundamentally minimalist. As a follower of James Joyce, Beckett is considered by many one of the last modernists; as an inspiration to...
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Musical Artist, Person, Author, Poet, Deceased Person, Theatrical Lyricist, Playwright, Songwriter, Influence Node, Award Winner, Lyricist, ComposerThomas Stearns Eliot, OM (26 September, 1888–4 January, 1965), was a poet, dramatist, and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. He wrote the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men, Ash Wednesday, and Four...
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Person, Deceased Person, Author, PlaywrightTristan Bernard (September 7, 1866 – December 7, 1947) was a French playwright, novelist, journalist and lawyer. Born Paul Bernard into a Jew family in Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France, the son of an architect. He left Besançon at the age of 14, moving with his...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Playwright, Influence Node, Film directorSir Tom Stoppard, OM, CBE (born as Tomáš Straussler on July 3, 1937) is a British Academy Award winning screenwriter and Tony Award winning playwright. Born in Zlín, Czechoslovakia, he is famous for plays such as The Coast of Utopia, Arcadia, Rosencrantz &...
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Person, Film story contributor, Poet, Author, Playwright, Deceased Person, Influence Node, Asset Owner, Architectural structure owner, Film subject, TV Character, Film character, Comic Book Character, Book Character, Comic Book Writer, Person Or Being In Fiction, Fictional Character CreatorWilliam Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or...
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Person, Author, Playwright, Award WinnerAkinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka (born 13 July, 1934) is a Nigeria writer, poet and playwright. Some consider him Africa's most distinguished playwright, as he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986, the first African so honored. Soyinka was born into a Yoruba...
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Person, Film writer, Film producer, Playwright, TV Program Creator, TV Writer, TV DirectorLarry Simon Gelbart (born February 25, 1928 in Chicago, Illinois) is a prolific American comedy writer with over sixty years of credits. He began as a writer for Danny Thomas radio show during 1940s, and wrote for Jack Paar and Bob Hope. On 1950s television he worked...
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Person, Author, Deceased Person, Playwright, Influence NodeJack London (12 January, 1876–22 November, 1916) was an American author who wrote The Call of the Wild and other books. A pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction, he was one of the first Americans to make a lucrative career exclusively from...
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Person, Film writer, Playwright, Award WinnerEdward Franklin Albee III (born March 12, 1928) is an American playwright known for works including Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Zoo Story, The Sandbox and The American Dream. His works are considered well-crafted and often unsympathetic examinations of the...
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Person, Deceased Person, Author, Playwright, Film story contributor, Visual Artist(January 22, 1849 – May 14, 1912) was a Swedish writer, playwright, and painter. Along with Henrik Ibsen, Søren Kierkegaard and Hans Christian Andersen he is arguably the most influential and most important of all Scandinavian authors. Strindberg is known as one of the...
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Person, Deceased Person, Poet, Influence Node, Playwright, AuthorJean-Baptiste Poquelin, also known by his stage name, Molière, (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. Among Molière's best-known dramas are Le Misanthrope, ...
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Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Playwright, Award WinnerThornton Niven Wilder (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. His best known work is his play Our Town. Thornton Niven Wilder was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and was the son of Amos Parker Wilder, a U.S. diplomat, and Isabella...
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Film director, Film actor, Film writer, Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, TV Actor, Theatrical Composer, Composer, Theatrical Lyricist, Playwright, TV Program CreatorEric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is an English comedian, actor, author and composer of comedic songs. He wrote and performed as a member of the internationally renowned British comedy group Monty Python. Idle was born in South Shields, County Durham (now Tyne and Wear...
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Film music contributor, Musical Artist, Person, Musical Group Member, Deceased Person, Theatrical Composer, Composer, Theatrical Lyricist, Playwright, Award WinnerRichard Charles Rodgers (June 28, 1902, Arverne, Queens, New York City – December 30, 1979, New York City) was an American compose of the music for more than 900 songs and 40 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his...
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Person, Film director, Film writer, Author, Theatrical Lyricist, Playwright, TV Program Creator, TV WriterBenjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. Born in Catford, London, he is the son of the physicist and educational researcher Lewis Elton and the nephew of the historian Sir G R Elton. He studied at Stillness Junior School and...
