William Sampson (1590?–1636?) was an English dramatist. Sampson is thought to have been born about 1590 at South Leverton, a village near Retford, Nottinghamshire...
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exiled to the United States William Sampson (playwright) (1590?–1636?), collaborated with Gervase Markham William Harkness Sampson, Methodist minister and...
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with surviving works are the Ancient Greeks. William Shakespeare is one of the most famous playwrights in English literature. The word "play" is from...
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William Sampson (26 January 1764 – 28 December 1836) was a lawyer and jurist who in his native Ireland, and in later American exile, identified with the...
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Deborah Sampson Gannett, also known as Deborah Samson or Deborah Sampson, (December 17, 1760 – April 29, 1827) was a Massachusetts woman who disguised...
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Miss Sara Sampson (original spelling Miß Sara Sampson) is a play by the Enlightenment philosopher, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Written in 1755 while the...
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Love for Love (category Plays by William Congreve)
Love for Love is a Restoration comedy written by English playwright William Congreve. It premiered on 30 April 1695 at the Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre...
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This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth; Lists of authors. Contents: A...
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English Renaissance theatre (category William Shakespeare)
was the theatre of England from 1558 to 1642. Its most prominent playwrights were William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson. The term English...
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Richard William Butler (21 May 1844 – 21 December 1928) was a British dramatist and editor of The Referee magazine in the late Victorian period. He shared...
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Wald, Jewish-Hungarian mathematician and economist (d. 1950) 1907 – Edgar Sampson, American musician and composer (d. 1973) 1908 – Muriel Duckworth, Canadian...
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Fitzgerald) from a wealthy family and a Jewish cab driver who aspires to be a playwright (Bernie Steinberg), whom she had met at a bus stop. With a primetime slot...
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season. The only play known to be presented here is The Story of Sampson. Spanish playwright Lope de Rueda's works are published following his death in 1565...
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of his middle names, as his stage name, because there was a well-known playwright named Hugh Williams. After appearing as Richard Bonneville for ten years...
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in nearby Ampthill Jonathan Stroud, fantasy novelist Laura Wade, playwright William Hale White, a minor Victorian novelist who wrote under the pseudonym...
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and novelist (died 1870) November 18 – W. S. Gilbert, English humorist, playwright and librettist (died 1911) November 20 – Lucy Morris Chaffee Alden, American...
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Arnold Bennett (redirect from Sampson King)
journalistic "self-help" books sold in substantial numbers, and he was also a playwright; he did less well in the theatre than with novels but achieved two considerable...
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Selected Essays. Edited by George Sampson. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1917 – Internet Archive New Writings by William Hazlitt. Edited by P. P. Howe...
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Bill Russell (redirect from William Felton Russell)
best ever. He's so good, he scares you." Russell's older brother was playwright Charlie L. Russell. During his early years Russell struggled to develop...
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for Rosaline and Juliet may mirror Shakespeare's increased skill as a playwright: the younger Shakespeare describing Rosaline, and the more experienced...
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1238 went on to have unusually successful ecclesiastical careers. Richard Sampson, who held the position in the 16th century, was in 1523 appointed Lord...
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Lord Capulet's niece, Romeo's love in the beginning of the story. Peter, Sampson, and Gregory are servants of the Capulet household. House of Montague Montague...
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(1936–1994), otolaryngologist Simon Gray (1936–2008), playwright John Goldman (1938–2013), medical scientist William Cookson (1939–2004), literary critic Adam Roberts...
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J. W. Dunne (redirect from John William Dunne)
E. and Matricardi, P.; "World Aircraft: Origins World War 1". London: Sampson Low, 1977. ISBN 0-528-88165-5. Deane, W.J. The Burgess Company 1909–1919...
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Her father was the son of Sampson Jacob Rothschild (1818–1899) and Mary Greissman (b. 1824), both Prussian-born Jews. Sampson Jacob Rothschild was a merchant...
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of Islamic History at the University of Edinburgh Tariq Ali, novelist, playwright and author of The Book of Saladin 6 December 2001 Oscar Wilde Valentine...
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Sampson Simson, lawyer and philanthropist David Simpson (1860–1931), builder, contractor former mayor of Harrogate, and property developer. William Sinclair...
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Hippolyte Bis (category 19th-century French dramatists and playwrights)
early 19th-century French playwright and librettist. He is mostly known for the libretto to Gioachino Rossini's opera William Tell (premiered in 1829)...
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George Robert Sims (category English dramatists and playwrights)
p. 173 ISBN 0544363876. Adams, William Davenport (1904). A Dictionary of the Drama: a Guide to the Plays, Playwrights, Vol. 1, pp. 374–75, Chatto & Windus...
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December 11, 2021. Retrieved February 26, 2015. Boston City Directory. Sampson & Murdock company. 1963. p. 1308. Gerber, Barbara (July 1962). "First haircut...
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