(1564–1593) Works: • Accurs’d be he that first invented war! (English) • Edward the Second (English) • Hero and Leander and Other Poems (English) • Hero and Leander and Other Poems (Latin) • I Must Have Wanton Poets (English) •…
Christopher Marlowe
Tag: playwright
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
(c.4 BC-65 AD) Works: • Apocolocyntosis (English) • Minor Dialogues, and the Dialogue on Clemency (English) • Morals of a Happy Life, Benefits, Anger and Clemency (English) • Octavia (English) • Octavia Praetexta (Latin) • On Benefits (English) • The…
David Garrick
(1717–1779) Garrick in Art: Reynolds, Joshua (1723-1792) David Garrick between Tragedy and Comedy 1760–1761 Private Collection Thomas Gainsborough (1727-1788) David Garrick 1770 National Portrait Gallery, London Born February 19 1717 Hereford (England) Died January 20 1779 London (England) Occupation Actor…
Albert Camus
(1913–1960) Works: • Caligula (1938) • L’Étranger (1942) ◊ The Stranger (English) • La Chute (1956) ◊ The Fall (English) • La Peste (1947) ◊ The Plague (English) • Le Malentendu (1943) • Le Mythe de Sysiphe (1942) ◊ The Myth of…
Sir Walter Scott
(1771–1832) Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot Works: • Guy Mannering (English) • Ivanhoe (English) • Kenilworth (English) • Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft (English) • Marmion (English) • Old Mortality (English) • Quentin Durward (English) • Rob Roy…
Jean Giraudoux
(1882–1944) Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux Works: • Amica America (French) • L’École des indifférents (French) • Elpénor (French) • Suzanne et le Pacifique (French) Filmography as Writer: The Madwoman of Chaillot 1969 Director: Bryan Forbes Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer …
Alexandre Dumas fils
(1824–1895) Works: • Kamelianainen (Finnish) • La dame aux camélias (French) • La Dame aux Camilias (English) • La kolomba premio (Esperanto) • Les Femmes qui tuent et les Femmes qui votent (French) • The Princess of Bagdad (English) •…
Alexandre Dumas, père
(1802–1870) Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie Works: • Acté (French) • Ali Pacha (English) • Amaury (Spanish) • Ange Pitou (Finnish) • Balsamo, the Magician (English) • Bastiljin valloitus (Finnish) • Bragelonnen varakreivi I (Finnish) • Bragelonnen varakreivi II (Finnish)…
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
(1732–1799) Works: • L’autre Tartuffe, ou La mère coupable (French) • Le barbier de Séville (French) • La Folle Journée ou le Mariage de Figaro (French) • Sevillan parturi eli Turha varovaisuus (Finnish) Beaumarchais in Film: Beaumarchais, l’insolent 1996 Director: Édouard…
Nicolas Edmé Restif de la Bretonne
(1734–1806) Nicolas-Edme Rétif Works: • L’Anti-Justine; ou, Les Delices de l’amour (French) • Contes de Restif de la Bretonne (French) Restif de la Bretonne in Film: La nuit de Varennes 1982 Director: Ettore Scola Starring: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni Born October 23…