dramatic criticism
61Hazlitt, William — born April 10, 1778, Maidstone, Kent, Eng. died Sept. 18, 1830, Soho, London British essayist. He studied for the ministry, but to remedy his poverty he became instead a prolific critic, essayist, and lecturer. He began contributing to journals,… …
62Agate, James — ▪ British author in full James Evershed Agate born Sept. 9, 1877, Pendleton, Lancashire, Eng. died June 6, 1947, London English drama critic for the London Sunday Times (1923–47), book reviewer for the Daily Express, novelist, essayist,… …
63Baker, George Pierce — ▪ American drama teacher born April 4, 1866, Providence, R.I., U.S. died Jan. 6, 1935, New York, N.Y. American teacher of some of the most notable American dramatists, among them Eugene O Neill, Philip Barry, Sidney Howard, and S.N. Behrman …
64Classical unities — The classical unities, Aristotelian unities or three unities are rules for drama derived from a passage in Aristotle s Poetics. In their neoclassical form they are as follows: The unity of action: a play should have one main action that it… …
65George Jean Nathan — (February 14 1882 ndash; April 8 1958) was an American drama critic and editor.Early lifeNathan was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He graduated from Cornell University in 1904, where he was a member of the Quill and Dagger society.Drama critic… …
66John Lahr — Infobox Writer name = John Lahr caption = birthdate = birth date and age|1941|7|12 birthplace = Los Angeles, California, United States occupation = Critic, biographer genre = movement = period = 1969 present relatives = Bert Lahr (father) spouse …
67Francis Robortello — Francesco Robortello (Franciscus Robortellus, Udine 1516 ndash; Padua 1567) was a Renaissance humanist, nicknamed Canis grammaticus ( the grammatical dog ) for his confrontational and demanding manner. Robortello was an editor of rediscovered… …
68Gautier, Théophile — Gau·tier (gō tyāʹ), Théophile. 1811 1872. French writer who influenced French literature during its shift from romanticism to aestheticism and naturalism. His works include Young France (1833) and Enamels and Cameos (1852). * * * born Aug. 31,… …
69LOPEZ, SABATINO — (1867–1951), Italian playwright, critic and novelist. Born in Leghorn, Lopez spent some years as a teacher before devoting himself to the theater and dramatic criticism. A playwright of Italy s realistic school, he wrote about 70 plays, including …
70Eugène Marin Labiche — (May 5, 1815 January 23, 1888), was a French dramatist.He was born into a bourgeois family, read for the bar, but found literature more attractive, and he was barely twenty when he contributed a short story to Chérubin magazine, entitled in the… …
