Goldoni, a prolific writer, is best known for his comic play Servant of Two Masters, which has been translated and adapted internationally numerous times.

Dylan Marlais Thomas ( 27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 ) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, " Do not go gentle into that good night ", " And death shall have no dominion ", the " play for voices ", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

Magazine writer / editor Daniel Okrent is credited with inventing it, the name coming from the New York City restaurant La Rotisserie Francaise where he and some friends used to meet and play.

New Zealand writer Maurice Shadbolt produced a play, Once on Chunuk Bair, in 1982.

Cocteau acknowledged in the introduction to the script that the play was motivated, in part, by complaints from his actresses that his works were too writer / director-dominated and gave the players little opportunity to show off their full range of talents.

Jennifer Shahade, writer and two-time U. S. women's chess champion, suggested that the influence of Polgár as a role model may be one of the reasons women play more aggressive chess than men.

In 1985, Voight teamed up with Russian writer and director Andrei Konchalovsky to play the role of escaped con Manny Manheim in Runaway Train.

On 6 October 1964, Milligan appeared in Frank Dunlop's production of the play Oblomov at the Lyric Theatre in London, based on the novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov.

One sports writer sarcastically suggested that Bradshaw throw left-handed and the Rams should be allowed to play with 12 men on the field to make the Super Bowl more competitive.

Through the gamut of changes Willow endures in the series, Buffy studies scholar Ian Shuttleworth states that Alyson Hannigan's performances are the reason for Willow's popularity: " Hannigan can play on audience heartstrings like a concert harpist ... As an actress she is a perfect interpreter in particular of the bare emotional directness which is the specialty of writer Marti Noxon on form.

The Spanish words libretista ( playwright, script writer or screen writer ) and libreto ( script or screen play ), which are used in the Hispanic TV and cinema industry, derived their meanings from the original operatic sense.

* Averroes is also the title of a play called " The Gladius and The Rose ", written by Tunisian writer Mohamed Ghozzi, and which had the first price in the theater festival in Charjah in 1999.

* Antígona Vélez ( 1950 ) adaptation of Sophocles ' play by Argentinean writer Leopoldo Marechal ( 1900 – 1970 )

Even the prominent writer Georges de Scudéry harshly criticized the play in his Observations sur le Cid ( 1637 ).

It is awarded each year to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another source ( usually a novel, play, short story, or TV show but also sometimes another film ).

while it is difficult to know the motivation of the adapter, we can reckon that from his point of view an early staging of The Shrew might have revealed an overly wrought play from a writer trying to establish himself but challenging too far the current ideas of popular comedy.

In 1846, in the midst of the liberal milieu that led to the Revolutions of 1848, the German writer Karl Gutzkow ( 1811 – 1878 ) wrote Uriel Acosta, a play about Costa's life.

Seamus Heaney's 2004 play The Burial at Thebes includes a note from the writer comparing Creon's actions to those of the Bush administration.

Harrison once quipped to writer Earl Wilson, " Actually, my dear fellow, I play Leslie doing Higgins.

George Bell, the Bishop of Chichester, was instrumental in getting Eliot to work as writer with producer E. Martin Browne in producing the pageant play The Rock ( 1934.

In a 1984 interview with Sports Illustrated writer Paul " Dr. Z " Zimmerman, when asked what position he would play if he were coming up in the present day, he said, " I would probably be a linebacker today.

In 1953, he divorced his second wife and married the archaeologist and writer Jacquetta Hawkes, his collaborator on the play Dragon's Mouth.

* Miranda ( The Tempest ), a character in the play The Tempest by English writer William Shakespeare

Examples include the many productions of the play " Unschuld " ( Innocence ) by the German writer Dea Loher, although in this play about two black African immigrants, the use of black-face is not part of the stage directions or instructions.

In fact, they went so far as to caution the writer that if he attempted to design a section exclusively for married students there should be, at the beginning, some `` hindsight '' study ; ;

Alfred Jarry ( 8 September 1873 – 1 November 1907 ) was a French writer born in Laval, Mayenne, France, not far from the border of Brittany ; he was of Breton descent on his mother's side.

The first occurrence of the phrase blue law so far found is in the New-York Mercury of March 3, 1755, where the writer imagines a future newspaper praising the revival of " our Connecticut's old Blue Laws ".

For the writer of the Book of Hosea, this idea of marriage is not far from the truth, but it is a " male perspective " that is being endorsed here.

Although noting in the introduction to ' The Protestors ' that ' Some recorded herein perhaps did not have " all the truth " — so the writer has been reminded ', Eyre nevertheless claimed that the purpose of the work was to ' tell how a number of little-known individuals, groups and religious communities strove to preserve or revive the original Christianity of apostolic times ', and that ' In faith and outlook they were far closer to the early springing shoots of first century Christianity and the penetrating spiritual challenge of Jesus himself than much that has passed for the religion of the Nazarene in the last nineteen centuries '.

" Besides its mention of Cicero, Moses is the only non-Greek writer quoted in the work, and he is described " with far more admiration than even Greek writers who treated Moses with respect, such as Hecataeus and Strabo.

* 1178: Chinese writer Zhou Qufei, a Guangzhou customs officer, writes of an island far west in the Indian Ocean ( possibly Madagascar ), from where people with skin " as black as lacquer " and with frizzy hair were captured and purchased as slaves by Arab merchants.

The Georgian writer Grigol Robakidze wrote in his 1918 essay on Tamar: " Thus far, nobody knows where Tamar's grave is.

* Pierre Loti ( 1850 – 1923 )-highly popular French writer, mostly on his Oriental travels & novels set as far away as Japan and Tahiti

A writer possessing knowledge of the actual swift collapse of Poland in World War II and the enormous actual costs of far less ambitious space programs in a far less devastated world would have been unlikely to postulate such outcomes.

Foglar, being a very traditional writer in his style and traditionalist person in his lifestyle, was not interested in any modern ideas and was far from regarding himself to be gay.

The Dreadnought hoax | Dreadnought hoax ers in Ethiopian Empire | Abyssinian regalia ; the bearded figure on the far left is in fact the writer Virginia Woolf.

On the other hand the short story " Cal " ( from the collection Gold ), and told by a first-person robot narrator, features a robot who disregards the Three Laws because he has found something far more important — he wants to be a writer.

The 2nd century writer Lucian gave an account of the Greek Deucalion in De Dea Syria that seems to refer more to the Near Eastern flood legends: in his version, Deucalion ( whom he also calls Sisythus ) took his children, their wives, and pairs of animals with him on the ark, and later built a great temple in Manbij ( northern Syria ), on the site of the chasm that received all the waters ; he further describes how pilgrims brought vessels of sea water to this place twice a year, from as far as Arabia and Mesopotamia, to commemorate this event.

As writer Eddie Holland explained: " He was the only singer I have ever heard known to take a song of that nature, that was so far removed from his natural voice where he liked singing, and do whatever it took to sell that song.

# Comedian Steve Martin is technically a one hit wonder for his novelty song King Tut, but was previously and subsequently far better known for his work as a comedy writer / stand-up comedian / actor.

The work was well received ; in The Manchester Guardian, Samuel Langford called Bliss " far and away the cleverest writer among the English composers of our time "; The Times praised it highly ( though doubting if much was gained by the designation of the four movements as purple, red, blue and green ) and commented that the symphony confirmed Bliss's transition from youthful experimenter to serious composer.

A friend suggested a name meaning a far writer, telegraph.

He paid closer attention to expression and rhythm far more than any other Greek writer, but because his sentences were so complex and artistic, he often sacrificed clarity to demonstrate his messages.

John Sterling pronounced Thirlwall " a writer as great as Thucydides and Tacitus, and with far more knowledge than they.

He was a highly productive writer and had many of his accounts and papers published as far away as New York.