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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Tapeley (redirect from Augustus Saltren-Willett)
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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Merley House, Wimborne (section Willett family)
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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