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44 matches to Wright
Albee, Edward. 1928-. US playwright. Pulitzer-Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 1962.
Alvarez Quintero, Joaquin. 1873-1944, + Serafin 1871-1938. Spanish playwrights.
Archer, William. 1856-1924. Scottish critic, playwright. Translated Ibsen.
Ariosto, Ludovico. 1474-1533. Italian Renaissence poet, playwright: Orlando Furioso 1516.
Arkwright, Richard. 1732-92. Invented power spinning machine, 1769.
Capek, Karel. 1890-1938. Czech playwright. Rossum’s Universal Robots. -coined term 1920.
Cartwright, Alexander. “Father of American baseball”. Established rules for modern game.
Cartwright, Edmund. 1743-1823. Power loom 1785.
Cartwright, John. 1740-1824. English reformer for universal male suffrage, abolition of slavery.
Chapman, George. c1559-1634. English poet, playwright: Bussy d’Ambois 1607. Translated Homer.
Chicago School. 19C. US architectural style. Skyscrapers. Wright.
Chikamatsu, Monzaemon. 1653-1724. Japanese playwright. “The Shakespeare of Japan”.
Congreve, William. 1670-1729. English playwright of manners. Way of the World 1700.
Corneille, Pierre. 1606-84. French tragic playwright. La Veuve 1634. Nicomède 1636. Le Cid 1637.
Coward, Noel. 1899-1973. English playwright. Comedies of manners. Private Lives 1930.
Doubleday, Abner. 1819-93. US formerly thought to be baseball inventor. Cartwright.
Dryden, John. 1631-1700. British poet laureate, playwright. Marriage a la Mode 1673.
Eliot, T.S. 1888-1965. US/English modernist poet, playwright. Prufrock 1910. Ash Wednesday 1930. Murder in the Cathedral 1935.
Grillparzer, Franz. 1791-1872. Austrian playwright. The Ancestress 1817. Sappho 1818.
Hart, Moss. 1904-61. US playwright. You Can’t Take It with You 1936.
Hebbel, Friedrich. 1813-63. German psychological poet, playwright. Nibelungen 1862.
Hellman, Lillian. 1905-84. US playwright. Little Foxes 1939. Pentimiento 1973.
Hooft, Pieter. 1581-1647. Dutch Renaissance poet and playwright.
Isherwood, Christopher. 1904-86. English novelist/playwright. Goodbye to Berlin 1939.
Kaufman, George. 1889-1961. US playwright. You Can’t Take it with You 1936.