10 Interesting Fact About Famous playwrights and their works
10 Interesting Fact About Famous playwrights and their works
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Shakespeare is considered one of the biggest writers of all time, but not all of his work becomes successful when in the show.
Tennessee Williams, Author A Streetcar Named Desire, has an obsession with cats and always carries his pet cat everywhere.
Arthur Miller, author of Death of a Salesman, was a witness in the McCarthy hearing in the 1950s.
Samuel Beckett, writer waiting for Godot, is an agnostic and refuses to wear a tie.
Oscar Wilde, author of The Importance of Being Earnest, has a big influence on the aesthetic movement at the end of the 19th century.
August Wilson, author of Fences, won the Pulitzer Prize award for drama twice.
Lorraine Hansberry, Author A Raisin in The Sun, is the first woman's black drama writer to be performed on Broadway.
Sophocles, author of Oedipus Rex, became Governor of Athena for some time.
Henrik Ibsen, writer of A Dolls House, is known as the father of modern drama and its influence can be found on writers such as Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.
Eugene Oneill, writer of the Long Days Journey Into Night, is the only drama writer who won the Nobel Award in the field of literature.
