Brief biography of Alfred Jarry--the first playwright of the absurd.

Musset, Alfred de. 1917. The Story of a White Blackbird. Vol. XIII, Part 3. Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction ...

Biography of English dramatist Arthur Wing Pinero, plus links to all of his works currently in print.

Biography of Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, plus links to purchase all of his works currently in print.

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Edmond (Eugge Alexix) Rostand (1868-1918) French poet and dramatist, best-known from his play Cyrano de Bergerac, about the heroic individualist, who has an outsized nose. The connection between the true Cyrano, the 17th century French soldier, ...

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Alexandre Dumas (jr.) (1824-1895) - known as Dumas fils French playwright and novelist, illegitimate son of Alexandre Dumas, who however supported his sons education with care. Dumas fils gained fame with his novel The Lady of the Camillas, in ...

A biography of British playwright Arthur Wing Pinero.

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) Austrian dramatist, novelist, short story writer and critic. Schnitzler dealt with the theme of illusion and reality in many variations and introduced the psychological play into modern drama. His work show deep ...

A history of dramatic literature as it developed during the nineteenth century.

A biography of German dramatist Hermann Sudermann.

A biography and analysis of the works of French dramatist Henry Becque.

A biography of French dramatist Alexander Dumas (Fils).

Jose Echegaray Y Eizaguirre, a Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature, at the Nobel Prize Internet Archive.

A biography of British dramatist Henry Arthur Jones; includes a list of related links.

A biography of British playwright Henry Arthur Jones.

A biography of French dramatist Edmond Rostand.

A biography of Italian dramatist Giovanni Verga and analysis of his works.

A biography of Irish dramatist and actor Dion Boucicault.

A biography of the French dramatist Alexandre Dumas the younger; includes a list of related links.

A biography of the Spanish dramatist Jose Echegaray.

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) French Romantic poet and playwright, remembered for his poetry. A love affair with the novelist George Sand between the years 1833 and 1835 inspired some of Musset's finest lyrics. Much influenced by Shakespeare and ...

Official Broadway credits for Dion Boucicault, biographical information and other related facts ...

Meet Giovanni Verga.

Verga, Giovanni: 1840-1922, Italian novelist, b. Sicily. He abandoned the study of law for literature and wrote several novels of passion in the style of the French realists. His later works, written in a different style, are marked by simplicity and strict accuracy. They deal with the Sicilian middle class and sympathetically treat the poverty and struggles of the peasantry. Verga's technique ...

Official Broadway credits for Henry Arthur Jones, biographical information and other related facts ...

THE MAGISTRATE by Arthur Wing Pinero at the Savoy Theater in London's West End - Albemarle of London's West End Theatre Guide ...

Official Broadway credits for Hermann Sudermann, biographical information and other related facts ...

Encyclopedia Sudermann, Hermann Pronunciation Key Sudermann, Hermann , 18571928, German dramatist and novelist. His play Die Ehre (1889; tr. Honor, 1906) was one of the first successes of the burgeoning German naturalist movement. Sudermann's works became immensely popular, particularly the psychological novel Frau Sorge (1887; tr. Dame Care, 1891) and the play Heimat (1893; tr. Magda, 1896), a ...