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- One night when he was watching his father's flocks, the gods in a vision commanded him to write tragic dramas for their glorification in the religious festivals
- Aeschylus
- When scarcely 25 yrs. old he competed in the dramatic contests held yearly in honor of the god Dionysus
- Aeschylus
- His parents belonged to the old attic nobility so that family life and traditions tended to make him broadminded conservative, both in politics and religion
- Aeschylus
- Born in Eleusis
- Aeschylus
- In all his extant plays the unvarying motive is the relentless power of fate and the ultimate justice of providence
- Aeschylus
- according to stories, his cause of death was an eagle mistaking his bald head for a stone and dropping a tortoise on it to break the shell
- Aeschylus
- Father of Greek Drama
- Aeschylus
- Raised in luxury
- Edward Albee
- Very attached to Grandma Cotter, to whom he dedicated his 1960 play "the sandbox"
- Edward Albee
- Grandma cotter left him a trust fund that enabled him to strike out on his own
- Edward Albee
- at age 11 he was sent to the first of several boarding schools
- Edward Albee
- Held variety of jobs, including 3 years at a western union messenger
- Edward Albee
- chose jobs because they were dead ends and would not interfere with his writing
- Edward Albee
- W.H. Auden, whom he met in New York, read some of his poetry and suggested that he write pornographic verse as an exercise to improve his skills
- Edward Albee
- First and major "hit" was Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- Edward Albee
- In Germany his books were burned and his citizenship was withdrawn
- Bertolt Brecht
- developed a violently antibourgeois attitude that reflected his generation's deep disappointment in the civilization that had come crashing down at the end of World War I
- Bertolt Brecht
- left the United States in 1947 after having had to give evidence before the House Un-American Activities Committee
- Bertolt Brecht
- argued that the theatre should not seek to make its audience believe in the presence of the characters on the stage--should not make it identify with them, but should rather follow the method of the epic poet's art, which is to make the audience realize
- Bertolt Brecht
- Was, first, a superior poet with a command of many styles and moods
- Bertolt Brecht
- He was, first, a superior poet, with a command of many styles and moods. As a playwright he was an intensive worker, a restless piecer-together of ideas not always his own, a sardonic humorist, and a man of rare musical and visual awareness; but he was o
- Bertolt Brecht
- As a producer he liked lightness, clarity, and firmly knotted narrative sequence; a perfectionist, he forced the German theatre, against its nature, to underplay.
- Bertolt Brecht
- German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes
- Bertolt Brecht
- lived in Bavaria, where he was born, studied medicine and served in an army hospital
- Bertolt Brecht
- was born on Good Friday, April 13, 1906, near Dublin, Ireland
- Samuel Beckett
- at the age of 14 he attended the same school which Oscar Wilde had attended
- Samuel Beckett
- once remarked, "I had little talent for happiness."
- Samuel Beckett
- Would not allow anyone to penetrate his solitude
- Samuel Beckett
- once remarked, after rejecting advances from James Joyce's daughter, that he was dead and had no feelings that were human
- Samuel Beckett
- In 1928, he moved to Paris, and the city quickly won his heart
- Samuel Beckett
- In paris a mutual friend introduced him to James Joyce, and he quickly became an apostle of the older writer
- Samuel Beckett
- After writing a study of Proust, however, he came to the conclusion that habit and routine were the "cancer of time",
- Samuel Beckett
- In the course of his journies, he no doubt came into contact with many tramps and wanderers, and these aquaintances would later translate into some of his finest characters
- Samuel Beckett
- finally settled down in Paris in 1937
- Samuel Beckett
- was stabbed in the street by a man who had approached him asking for money
- Samuel Beckett
- first play, Eleutheria, mirrors his own search for freedom, revolving around a young man's efforts to cut himself loose from his family and social obligations
- Samuel Beckett
- All of his major works were originally written in french
- Samuel Beckett
- Language is useless, for he creates a mythical universe peopled by lonely creatures who struggle vainly to express the unexpressable
- Samuel Beckett
- His characters exist in a terrible dreamlike vacuum, overcome by an overwhelming sense of bewilderment and grief, grotesquely attempting some form of communication, then crawling on, endlessly.
- Samuel Beckett
- In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
- Samuel Beckett
- Originally named Nathan Birnbaum
- George Burns
- He and his Wife Gracie were a comedy duo
- George Burns
- He and his wife achieved great success in vaudeville, radio and the movies
- George Burns
- Brought laughter to millions worldwide as the silent "little tramp" clown
- Charlie Chaplin
- The son of a music hall singer and his wife
- Charlie Chaplin
- his mother slowly succumbed to mental illness
- Charlie Chaplin
- Regulated to a workhouse
- Charlie Chaplin
- Toured with a stage company, the 8 lancashire lads, with a kindhearted couple
- Charlie Chaplin
- Wins a part in the stage play "Jim, A romance of Cockney"
- Charlie Chaplin
- Died on October 21, 2000
- Steve Allen
- Began his climb to stardom over 40 years ago as the first host of "the tonight show"
- Steve Allen
- Hosted the pbs series "meeting of the minds"
- Steve Allen
- Inducted into tv academy's hall of fame
- Steve Allen
- In 1933, He became abbot of the world-famed friars club
- Steve Allen
- Married to actress-comedienne Jayne Meadows
- Steve Allen
- final work was a radiophonic creation entitled "To Have Done With The Judgment Of God."
- Antonin Artaud
- final work was written after several years' internment in psychiatric institutions which roughly corresponded to the duration of WWII
- Antonin Artaud
- underwent a myriad of bizarre treatments for this behavior including coma-inducing insulin therapy and electroshock therapy
- Antonin Artaud
- In the actual text of "To Have Done With The Judgment Of God" America is denounced as a baby factory war-mongering machine
- Antonin Artaud
- French actress
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Baptized at the age of 12 and brought up in a convent
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Greatest of her day
- Sarah Bernhardt
- developed some skill as a sculptor
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Made the bold experiment of a french production of Hamlet, in which she played the title part
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Impersonated La Tisbe in Victor Hugo's romantic drama Angelo
- Sarah Bernhardt
- Oscar winning American actor who is widely regarded as one of the greatest film actors of the twentieth century
- Marlon Brando
- brought the techniques of the Stanislavski System to prominence in the films A Streetcar Named Desire and On the Waterfront
- Marlon Brando
- His acting style had a profound effect on a generation of actors, including James Dean and Paul Newman, and later stars, including Robert De Niro and Al Pacino
- Marlon Brando
- born in Omaha, Nebraska
- Marlon Brando
- had a tumultuous childhood, in which he was expelled from several schools
- Marlon Brando
- finally won the Oscar for his role of Terry Malloy in On The Waterfront
- Marlon Brando
- For his performance of Vito Corleone in The Godfather in 1972 he was foted the Academy Award for Best actor
- Marlon Brando
- turned down the Academy Award for the Godfather
- Marlon Brando
- played Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now
- Marlon Brando
- played Superman's father in the first Superman movie
- Marlon Brando
- crusades for civil rights, the American Indian and other causes kept him in the public eye throughout his career as did his romances and marriages
- Marlon Brando
- The "Bounty" experience affected his life in a profound way: he fell in love with Tahiti and its people
- Marlon Brando
- notoriety, his family's troubled lives, his self-exile from Hollywood, and his obesity, unfortunately attracted more attention than his late acting career
- Marlon Brando
- He also earned a reputation for being difficult on the set, often unwilling or unable to memorize his lines and less interested in taking direction than in confronting the film director with odd and childish demands
- Marlon Brando
- was a long-time close friend of the entertainer Michael Jackson and paid regular visits to his Neverland Ranch, resting there for weeks
- Marlon Brando
- His son, Miko, was Jackson's bodyguard for several years, and is also friend of the singer
- Marlon Brando
- Died at the age of 80
- Marlon Brando
- Despite his later obesity, he would diet, run and lif weight to keep in shiape in his early to mid career
- Marlon Brando