Playwright

He is famous for being prominent writer in producing significant amount of works mostly Singaporean-Malaysian playwrights. He used simple English as his poetic technique and included everyday imagery. He included the “Singlish” language in his plays entitled “Cook a Pot of Curry” to connect the social class in Singapore. His poem, “Neighbours” is about the life of…

Henrik Ibsen is one of the most controversial writers ever. Ibsen’s relevance to our times is one of the questions on which no two critics seem to agree. For some, Ibsen has become thoroughly outdated; while, for some others, Ibsen is a dramatist who can never lose his relevance. The paper highlights the fact that Henrik Ibsen, more than anything else, is concerned with the problem of the self, and this is a problem which can never become obsolete. Further, Ibsen shows himself to be way ahead of…

Influential Classical Writers and Poets in World Literature There is tons of existing classical writers and Poets in World Literature. Many of these inspirational composers have continued to live in the modern society. Poetry has derived from many of these poets from the classical age, but is everlasting to our world. We have taken classical world literature’s contributions, studied the contributions, and excelled those contributions for use of the today’s literature. Quintus Ennius was one…

Romeo and Juliet The play Romeo and Juliet was set during the Renaissance in Verona, Italy. The playwright, Shakespeare, was a fervent writer and all of his work was very well acknowledged. This play was truly an amazing piece of work and had many great qualities that made the book/play very likeable. Shakespeare had developed many meaningful characters with believable stories and great personalities. They each had something different and important to bring to the overall idea of the story…

carried out by Mao Zedong. The harsh time period, were cruel restriction were implemented in regards to the limitations on western cultures are highlighted by the author when he adds “Balzac” to the title. Honre de Balzac, a French novelist and playwright during the French Revolution, exemplifies the restraints on Chinese society during the Chinese revolution. The fact that his work is western and he is in favor of the arts; and Luo reads the work further supports the idea that the…

Shakespeare's Rough Draft At Stratford-upon-Avon in April,1564 a little child was born and he was to be forever remembered as “Shakespeare the world's greatest playwright.” He began going to school for free at Stratford in 1571, six years later his father took him out of school and made him a local butcher’s apprentice. Shakespeare fell in love with a girl named Anne Hathaway a few years later and married her in 1582, they had their first child in 1583 and her name was Susanna. Two years…

Sophocles, of Athens, is remembered as one of the most successful “innovative playwrights” (Encylopedia) of his time. Some refer to him as the “master of tragedy” (European Graduate School 1) and he is also credited to providing insight to the political and social aspects of Greek life. Prior to his rise to fame, Sophocles had an interesting background which is believed to have an effect on his later writings and observations. He was a prior politician, priest, and military leader. In his piece,…

Thornton Wilder is one of the most inventive playwrights of all time. His creative vision and exceptional imagination led to such classics as his most notable drama, Our Town. Throughout this drama, Wilder’s unusual use of the Stage Manager allows Him to become one of the most famous roles of all time. Although his identity is unknown and he appears to be insignificant to the plot of the story, the Stage Manager’s role is the most important in the entire play (Galens 226). It may seem like he…

committee and its victims agreed on one thing: "The test for friend or foe was the willingness to inform." Many who would not cooperate with the investigating committees were blacklisted by potential employers and unable to work for many years. The playwrights Arthur Miller and Lillian Hellman, and the actors Charlie Chaplin, Zero Mostel, and Paul Robeson were among hundreds who were persecuted because of real or imagined Communist sympathies.” This shows how McCarthyism even forced unwilling…

and his family had to move to Flatbush, Brooklyn. He attended the University of Michigan. During his time in college he won the school’s Avery Hopwood Award for his first play, No Villain. After this he moved back East to pursue his career as a playwright. And soon after that he married his college girlfriend, Mary Grace, and had two kids, Joan and Robert. He then divorced her in 1956 and married the famous Marilyn Monroe but this marriage didn’t last. But other than that he won many awards for…