William Gill, also known as William Bain Gill, William B. Gill, and W. B. Gill, (10 May 1842, Trinity Bay, Newfoundland – 1 April 1919, Schenectady, New...
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Manx composer William Gill (dramatist) (1842–1919), American actor and playwright; author of Broadway's first hit musical, Adonis William Gill (photographer)...
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dramatist William Gill. Sir William Bain. Harvard University. Retrieved 23 May 2023. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help) Ganzl, Kurt (2002). William...
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Seneca the Younger (category Ancient Roman tragic dramatists)
mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature...
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dramatic qualities. He died in Attanagh, County Laois. The famous dramatist and painter William Gorman Wills was his son. Works by or about James Wills at the...
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Peter Gill OBE (born 7 September 1939) is a Welsh theatre director, playwright, and actor. He was born in Cardiff to George John and Margaret Mary (née...
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James Planché (category 19th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
James Robinson Planché (27 February 1796 – 30 May 1880) was a British dramatist, antiquary and officer of arms. Over a period of approximately 60 years...
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Ball, from whom he was divorced in 1972, and secondly to the poet and dramatist Jehane Markham (daughter of David Markham), whom he married in 2000. He...
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leading contemporary dramatists (William Congreve and Sir John Vanbrugh most prominently, but also John Dryden, Thomas d'Urfey, and William Wycherley) for moral...
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– M. H. Gill, printer to Dublin University, purchases the publishing and bookselling business of James McGlashan, renaming it McGlashan & Gill, the predecessor...
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Halliwell. The title and play are based on a few lines from poet and dramatist William Ernest Henley: "Madam Life's a piece in bloom, / Death goes dogging...
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and translator William Alabaster (1567–1640), poet Robert Bruce Cotton (1570–1631), antiquarian Ben Jonson (1573–1637), poet and dramatist Arthur Dee (1579–1651)...
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Southerne, dramatist Bram Stoker, author, known for Dracula Jonathan Swift, satirist, author of Gulliver's Travels John Millington Synge, dramatist, poet;...
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Not merely better than any other writer of fiction but better than any dramatist, any poet, any biographer, any historian? It is an astonishing claim."...
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5807 5808 Babelʹ 1987 QV10 Isaac Babelʹ (1894–1940), Russian writer and dramatist. Named on the commemoration of his 100th anniversary of his birth MPC ·...
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all time. The English playwright and poet William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest dramatist of all time. Other important English writers...
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Fort William: From the Period of Its Foundation to the Present Time. Cambridge University Press. p. 53. ISBN 978-1-108-05604-5. Ballinger, Gill (Winter...
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George H. Jessop (category Irish male dramatists and playwrights)
character. In 1882 Jessop began a prolific partnership with the dramatist William Gill with whom he co-authored several successful stage works; many of...
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Ira Aldridge (redirect from Margaret Gill)
Rewell & Company, 1887. p657 Nelson, E.S. (2004). In African American Dramatists: An A-to-Z Guide. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood. Ross, Alex (July 29, 2013)...
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English poet and dramatist Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), German poet William Drummond (1585–1649), Scottish poet William Henry Drummond (1854–1907)...
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writer John Byrne – columnist, cartoonist Austin Clarke – poet, novelist, dramatist Marita Conlon-McKenna – children's author Annie Jessy Curwen – author...
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Gil Vicente (redirect from Gill Vicente)
and poet who acted in and directed his own plays. Considered the chief dramatist of Portugal he is sometimes called the "Portuguese Plautus," often referred...
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School) Chris Evans, actor Scott Evans, actor John Augustus Stone, actor, dramatist and playwright Casper Asbjornson, Major League Baseball player Laurie...
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List of playwrights (redirect from List of dramatists)
(living, Canada) William Gibson (1914–2018, United States) W. S. Gilbert (1836–1911, England) D. B. Gilles (living, United States) William Gillette (1855–1937...
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Christopher Marlowe (category 16th-century English dramatists and playwrights)
foremost dramatist in London in the years just before his mysterious early death. Some scholars also believe that he greatly influenced William Shakespeare...
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Lady Gregory (category Irish women dramatists and playwrights)
15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager. With William Butler Yeats and Edward Martyn, she co-founded...
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of Hugo von Hofmannsthal, the Austrian poet, novelist, librettist, and dramatist and his wife, Gertrud Schlesinger. He was said to be the father of Sylvia...
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Desmond Chute (category English male dramatists and playwrights)
the previous decade around Gill and others. Chute became a close colleague, assistant and "beloved brother" of Gill. Gill completed his work on the Stations...
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Dion Boucicault (category Irish male dramatists and playwrights)
York Times hailed him in his obituary as "the most conspicuous English dramatist of the 19th century,"; he and his second wife, Agnes Robertson Boucicault...
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Vagrant Poor April 9 – Étienne Aignan, French translator, librettist and dramatist (died 1824 in literature) May 19 – Jean Charles Léonard de Sismondi, Swiss...
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