• John William Mills Willett, MBE (24 June 1917 – 20 August 2002) was a British translator and a scholar who is remembered for translating the work of Bertolt...
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    John Willett Adye (1745–1815), in later life John Willett Willett, was a British politician. He was the second son of Stephen Adye of St Kitts and his...
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    (1965). Messingkauf Dialogues. Translated by John Willett. London: Methuen. ISBN 0-413-38890-5. Willett, John, ed. (1990). Letters 1913–1956. Translated...
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    star"[by whom?], Willett is best known for playing non-speaking roles, such as the character Tom on the sitcom television series Dear John which ran on NBC...
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    Daniel John Willett (born 3 October 1987) is an English professional golfer who plays on the European Tour. In April 2016, he won his first major championship...
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  • Lawrence John "Lawrie" Willett AO (born 1938) is a former senior Australian public servant and university Chancellor. Willett was born in Brisbane in 1938...
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    Trans. John Willett. In Brecht (1964, 179–205). Brecht, Bertolt. 1964. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic. Ed. and trans. John Willett. British...
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    William Willett (10 August 1856 – 4 March 1915) was a British builder and a promoter of British Summer Time. Willett was born in Farnham, Surrey, and educated...
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    John Willett Payne (23 April 1752 – 17 November 1803) was an officer of the Royal Navy who also served as a close friend, advisor and courtier to Prince...
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  • becomes the hero; he may be criminal, he may be semi-human," argues John Willett, "but in plays like Baal he can be romanticized into an inverted idealist...
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    Saltren Willett, dec'd., and called Porthill House, Northam" from: 1. John Clevland, of Tapley, Esq. 2. Frances Saltren Willett, of London, widow. 3. John Saltren...
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    Register. It was built in 1752 by the bibliophile Ralph Willett and remained in the Willett family until about 1875. For the next century it was the...
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    heat"—in a little over a month. As the preface to the Ralph Manheim/John Willett Collected Plays puts it: Mother Courage, with its theme of the devastating...
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    nine-month run in 1976–77 had a new translation by Ralph Manheim and John Willett for Joe Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival at the Vivian Beaumont Theater...
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  • Baal. The lyrics to the songs were all translated by Ralph Manheim and John Willett. Bowie did not think of the television play as a success on broadcast...
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  • a brand-new interpretation of "Mack the Knife" by Ralph Manheim and John Willett was used in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of The Threepenny...
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    Simon, John (1990-11-18). "How Sex Killed Frank Wedekind". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-08-11. Willett (1959, 98n). See Banham (1998) and Willett (1959...
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    of Colonel John Stanley of Nevis. He matriculated at Oriel College, Oxford, on 23 June 1736, aged 17, but did not take a degree. Willett was admitted...
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  • Jason Willett, American rock musician Jincy Willett, American author John Willett (1917–2002), English translator and scholar John B. Willett, Professor...
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  • Willett Distillery Ltd, is a private, family-owned-and-operated company that produces bourbon and rye whiskey. Over the years, the company has bottled...
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    translation of Shklovsky's 1917 coinage as "defamiliarization", combined with John Willett's 1964 translation of Brecht's 1935 coinage as "alienation effect"—and...
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    Brecht, Bertolt. 1922. Drums in the Night. Trans. John Willett. In Collected Plays: One. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry...
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    song of the same name by Bertolt Brecht. An English version of it, by John Willett, features the lyrics Deep down in the Moldau the pebbles are shifting...
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    monument by Peter Rouw. He had married on 18 January 1768 Mary, daughter of Sir John Reade, 5th Baronet, of Shipton Court, Oxfordshire; they had five sons. In...
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    Walter C. Willett (born June 20, 1945) is an American physician and nutrition researcher. He is the Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and...
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  • Thomas Willett (c. 1607 – August 29, 1674) was a Plymouth Colony fur trader, merchant, land purchaser and developer, Captain of the Plymouth Colony militia...
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    company associated with the International Workers' Relief Organisation. As John Willett wrote, throughout the pre-Hitler years Piscator's "commitment to the...
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  • edited by John Willett and Ralph Manheim, first published by Methuen (London, 1977) and later by Arcade Publishing (New York, 2001.) John Willett translated...
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    Bertolt (1955). Life of Galileo. In Collected Plays:Five. Trans. John Willett. Ed. John Willett and Ralph Manheim. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry and Prose Ser...
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    the Svendborger Gedichte is Bertold Brecht, Poems 1913-1956, ed. by John Willett, Ralph Manheim, and Erich Fried (London: Eyre Methuen, 1976). The poems...
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