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    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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    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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    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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