* 1931 – William Goldman, American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

His brother William was already establishing himself as a playwright and sometimes worked in collaboration with Cecil.

During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould ( profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell ) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O ' Neill.

Other writers that emerged in this period, and are often treated as part of the movement, include the poets Edwin Muir and William Soutar, the novelists Neil Gunn, George Blake, Nan Shepherd, A J Cronin, Naomi Mitchison, Eric Linklater and Lewis Grassic Gibbon, and the playwright James Bridie.

* 1857 – Douglas William Jerrold, English playwright and satirist ( b. 1803 )

* 1670 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

* 1913 – William Inge, American playwright ( d. 1973 )

Joseph Sobran, in Alias Shakespeare, argued that in 1607 William Barksted, a minor poet and playwright, implies in his poem " Mirrha the Mother of Adonis " that Shakespeare was already deceased.

Even thirty years after his death " Sultan Solyman " was quoted by the English playwright William Shakespeare as a military prodigy in The Merchant of Venice ( Act 2, Scene 1 ).

* 1911 – William Golding, English author, poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1993 )

William Butler Yeats ( ; 13 June 186528 January 1939 ) was an Irish poet and playwright, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.

* June 10 – William Inge, American playwright ( b. 1913 )

* November 29 – Marriage of future English playwright William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway.

* July 24 – William Gillette, American actor, playwright and stage-manager ( d. 1937 )

* January 1 – William Wycherley, English playwright ( b. c. 1640 )

* January 24 – William Congreve, English playwright ( d. 1729 )

* February 28 – William Davenant, English poet and playwright ( d. 1668 )

** ( O. S., Tuesday ) – William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet ( b. 1564 )

* William Shakespeare, English playwright

* January 19 – William Congreve, English playwright ( b. 1670 )

At the end of Stephen Sondheim's The Frogs, William Shakespeare is competing against George Bernard Shaw for the title of best playwright, deciding which of them is to be brought back from the dead in order to improve the world.

He introduced the young Pope to the ageing playwright William Wycherley and to William Walsh, a minor poet, who helped Pope revise his first major work, The Pastorals.

James was a patron of Shakespeare ’ s acting company, and of all the plays Shakespeare wrote during James ’ s reign, Macbeth most clearly reflects the playwright ’ s relationship with the sovereign.

According to Marples, Shakespeare drew directly from Plautus “ parallels in plot, in incident, and in character ,” and was undeniably influenced by the classical playwright ’ s work.

The town is a popular tourist destination owing to its status as birthplace of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, receiving about three million visitors a year from all over the world.

Stratford is also home to several institutions set up for the study of Shakespeare, including the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, which holds books and documents related to the playwright, and the Shakespeare Institute.

* William Shakespeare, English playwright and poet.

In 2005, German playwright Botho Strauß adapted the play into Schändung: nach dem Titus Andronicus von Shakespeare ( Rape: After Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare ), also commonly known by its French name, Viol, d ' après Titus Andronicus de William Shakespeare.

The English playwright William Shakespeare used the word Scotch to describe a jig, but always employed the term Scottish when people were the subject.

Metamorphoses was a considerable influence on English playwright William Shakespeare.

Later, the same prime minister being asked to name a famous English playwright other than Shakespeare says " Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw " and is told, " they were all Irish "

Critics are almost unanimous in saying he was not a good playwright, but his work in bringing Shakespeare to contemporary audiences is notable.

In 2012, the RSC is producing the World Shakespeare Festival, a celebration of ' Shakespeare as the world ’ s playwright ' working with UK and international arts organisations, and including the Globe to Globe Festival by Shakespeare ’ s Globe.

The success of his children's books was to become a source of considerable annoyance to Milne, whose self-avowed aim was to write whatever he pleased and who had, until then, found a ready audience for each change of direction: he had freed pre-war Punch from its ponderous facetiousness ; he had made a considerable reputation as a playwright ( like his idol J. M. Barrie ) on both sides of the Atlantic ; he had produced a witty piece of detective writing in The Red House Mystery ( although this was severely criticised by Raymond Chandler for the implausibility of its plot ).

His father, Henry Churchill de Mille ( 1853 – 1893 ), was a North Carolina-born dramatist and lay reader in the Episcopal Church, who had earlier begun a career as a playwright, writing his first play at age 15.

Aeschylus had written his own epitaph commemorating his life as a warrior fighting for Athens against Persia, without any mention of his success as a playwright, and Sophocles was celebrated by his contemporaries for his social gifts and contributions to public life as a state official, but there are no records of Euripides's public life except as a dramatisthe could well have been " a brooding and bookish recluse ".

Although he had a reckless, unpredictable, and violent nature that precluded him from attaining any court or government responsibility and led to the ruination of his estate, Oxford was noted in his own time as a patron of the arts, lyric poet, and playwright, and since the 1920s he has been the most popular alternative candidate proposed for the authorship of Shakespeare's works.

They offered the job of making their films to D. W. Griffith, an unimportant actor and playwright, who took up the job, and found he had a gift for it.

In 1819 a student radical assassinated the reactionary playwright August von Kotzebue, who had scoffed at liberal student organisations.

The results were summarized by historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman, " Instead of Kinsey's 37 % ( men who had at least one homosexual experience ), Gebhard and Johnson came up with 36. 4 %; the 10 % figure ( men who were " more or less exclusively homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55 "), with prison inmates excluded, came to 9. 9 % for white, college-educated males and 12. 7 % for those with less education.

The often unconventional playwright introduces a " real " Helen and a " phantom " Helen ( who caused the Trojan War ), and gives a backstory that makes the father of his character Theoclymenus, Proteus, a king in Egypt who had been wed to a Nereid Psamathe.

The mediaeval playwright Hroswitha of Gandersheim claims to have written her plays so that learned men had a Christian alternative to reading the pagan plays of Terence, while the reformer Martin Luther not only quoted Terence frequently to tap into his insights into all things human but also recommended his comedies for the instruction of children in school.

The Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's intimate friend Lord Alfred Douglas ( who was on holiday in Algiers at the time ), had planned to disrupt the play by throwing a bouquet of rotten vegetables at the playwright when he took his bow at the end of the show.

In a version by Seneca, the Roman playwright, entitled Phaedra, after Phaedra told Theseus that Hippolytus had raped her, Theseus killed his son himself, and Phaedra committed suicide out of guilt, for she had not intended for Hippolytus to die.

He befriended gay playwright Joe Orton, who wrote the role of Inspector Truscott in Loot ( 1966 ) for him, and had holidays with Orton and his lover, Kenneth Halliwell, in Morocco.

This meant that the playwright had to construct the play so that its " virtual " time would not exceed 24 hours, that it would be restricted to a single setting, and that there would be no subplots.

Once a play was sold to a company, the company owned it, and the playwright had no control over casting, performance, revision or publication.

Kazan's critics included his friend and collaborator, the noted playwright Arthur Miller, who had written the original screenplay – titled The Hook – for the film that would become On the Waterfront.

Maurice married a Polish princess, Maria Jablonowska ( see Jablonowski ), with whom he had two daughters, Simone ( who married Edgar Gross, son of a wealthy Philadelphia soap manufacturer ) and Lysiana ( who married the playwright Louis Verneuil ).

Leverich explains that Williams to the end was concerned with " the depths and origin of human feelings and motivations, the difference being that he had gone into a deeper, more obscure realm, which, of course, put the poet in him to the fore, and not the playwright who would bring much concern for audience and critical reaction ” ( xxiii ).

the play's strongly patriotic themes were credited by the Conservative Party for helping them secure a large percentage of the middle class votes, despite the fact Coward had conceived the project a full year before the election was held, and the playwright strenuously denied having any motivation to influence its outcome.

In 1938, Max Reinhardt directed a Broadway production of The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder had adapted from Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy's Einen Jux will er sich machen ( 1842 ).

Each playwright was unaware that the challenge had also been issued to the other.