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Title Modern British dramatists, 1900-1945 / Stanley Weintraub, editor.

Publication Info. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research, 1982.

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Series Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 10
Dictionary of literary biography complete online
Dictionary of literary biography ; v. 10.
Dictionary of literary biography complete online.
Contents Part 1 -- William Archer (1856-1924) - W. H. Auden (1907-1973) - Harley Granville Barker (1877-1946) - James M. Barrie (1860-1937) - Clifford Bax (1886-1962) - Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) - Gordon Bottomley (1874-1948) - James Bridie (Osborne Henry Mavor) (1888-1951) - Harold Brighouse (1882-1958) - Gilbert Cannan (1844-1955) - Paul Vincent Carroll (1900-1968) - Charles Haddon Chambers (1860-1921) - G. K. Chesterton (1874-1936) - Austin Clarke (1896-1974) - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) - Noel Coward (1899-1973) - Louis D'Alton (1900-1951) - Clemence Dane (Winifred Ashton) (1887-1965) - Gordon Daviot (Elizabeth Mackintosh) (1896-1952) - John Drinkwater (1882-1937) - Ashley Dukes (1885-1959) - Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) - St. John Greer Ervine (1883-1971) - James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) - John Galsworthy (1867-1933) - Walter Greenwood (1903-1973) - Isabella Augusta Persse, Lady Gregory (1852-1932) - Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) - Patrick Hamilton (1904-1962) - St. John Hankin (1869-1909) - Alan Patrick Herbert (1890-1971) - Stanley Houghton (1881-1913) - Laurence Housman (1865-1959) - N. C. Hunter (1908-1971) - Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927) - Denis Johnston (1901-) - Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929) - James Joyce (1882-1941) - Edward Knoblock (1874-1945) - D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) - Frederick Lonsdale (1881-1954).
Part 2 -- Brinsley MacNamara (John Weldon) (1890-1963) - Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) - Edward Martyn (1859-1923) - John Masefield (1878-1967) - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) - A.A. Milne (1882-1956) - Allan Monkhouse (1858-1936) - George Moore (1852-1933) - Gilbert Murray (1866-1957) - Sean O'Casey (1880-1964) - Stephen Phillips (1864-1915) - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) - Arthur Wing Pinero (1855-1934) - J. B. Priestley (1894-) - Lennox Robinson (1886-1958) - Dorothy L. Sayers (1893-1957) - Mordaunt Shairp (1887-1939) - Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) - R. C. Sherriff (1896-1975) - George Shiels (1886-1949) - Dodie Smith (1896-) - Alfred Sutro (1863-1933) - John Millington Synge (1871-1909) - Ben Travers (1886-1980) - John van Druten (1901-1957) - Sutton Vane (1888-1963) - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - Emlyn Williams (1905-) - William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) - Israel Zangwill (1864-1926) - The Lord Chamberlain's Office and Stage Censorship in England - Stage Sensorship - The Development of Lighting in the Staging of Drama, 1900-1945 - The Great War and the Theater, 1914-1918 - Dangerous Years: London Theater, 1939-1945 - The Royal Court Theatre and the New Drama - The Abbey Theatre and Irish Drama, 1900-1945.
Summary Contains biographical sketches of playwrights whose careers had reached a professional height before the 1939-1945 war, or whose lives had ended by that time.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mi: Gale, 2007. Available via World Wide Web.
Original Version Original: 645 p. (pt1. 301pp.; pt2. 344pp.).
System Details Mode of access: Internet.
Subject Dramatists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Dramatists, English.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject English drama -- 20th century.
English drama.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Added Author Weintraub, Stanley, 1929-2019.
Gale Group.
ISBN 0810309378
9780810309371