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2. Everyman (15th-century play) - Wikipedia

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   The Somonyng of Everyman ( The Summoning of Everyman ), usually referred to simply as Everyman, is a late 15th-century morality play by an anonymous English author, printed circa 1530. It is possibly a translation of the Dutch play Elckerlijc (Everyman). Like John Bunyan 's 1678 Christian novel The Pilgrim's Progress, Everyman uses allegorical ...

3. Mystery play - Wikipedia

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   Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe. Medieval mystery plays focused on the representation of Bible stories in churches as tableaux with accompanying antiphonal song.

4. Arthur Miller - Wikipedia

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   Arthur Miller. Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter in the 20th-century American theater. Among his most popular plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), and A View from the Bridge (1955). He wrote several screenplays, including ...

5. Category:Short stories adapted into plays - Wikipedia

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   T. The Tale of Hongxian. The Tale of Huo Xiaoyu. Tale of the Transcendent Marriage of Dongting Lake. Toba Tek Singh (short story) The Turning (short story collection)

6. William Faulkner - Wikipedia

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   William Faulkner. William Cuthbert Faulkner ( / ˈfɔːknər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most ...

7. Sentimental comedy - Wikipedia

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   Sentimental comedy. Sentimental comedy is an 18th-century dramatic genre which sprang up as a reaction to the immoral tone of English Restoration plays. In sentimental comedies, middle-class protagonists triumphantly overcome a series of moral trials. These plays aimed to produce tears rather than laughter and reflected contemporary ...

8. The Canterbury Tales - Wikipedia

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   For other uses, see The Canterbury Pilgrims (Dyson) and The Canterbury Pilgrims (De Koven). The Canterbury Tales ( Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) [2] is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. [3] It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus.

9. Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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   James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...