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	Encyclopedia: List of playwrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is a list of playwrights either born in Ireland or holding Irish citizenship.
		Arthur Adamov (1908 - 1970) was a playwright, one of the foremost exponents of the Theatre of the Absurd.
		Nilo Cruz (born ?1962)is a Cuban-born American playwright who won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in drama for his play He was the first Latino playwright to receive a Pulitzer Prize, and Anna in the Tropics was only the second play to receive one having not been seen in...
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	THE LITTLE FOXES
		To the benefit of American theater, Hellman was welcomed back to the stage to resume her rather prolific career as a playwright.
		Americans turned on minorities, specifically Catholics and new immigrants, and put out the call for tighter immigration laws.
		Ibsen is known for his mastery of "the well-made play," an idea and term popularized by the French playwright Eugene Scribe in the mid-nineteenth century that relies upon careful exposition and preparation, cause-and-effect arrangement of incidents, building scenes to a climax, and the use of withheld information, startling reversals, and suspense.
	www.courttheatre.org /home/plays/9899/foxes/PNfoxes.shtml (7761 words)

	Playwright Michael Bettencourt - Theatre Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Playwrights on the Web (http://www.stageplays.com/writers.htm) is an international database of playwrights and their Web sites, offering directors, producers, and publishers a free and unique way to discover new plays and fresh talent.
		The company is dedicated to the playwright and serves as an artistic home, theatre research and development center, and writers' colony for the national theatre just a few steps from Broadway.
		The Playwrights' Platform (http://www.tiac.net/users/ghorton/playplat.htm) is a non-profit cooperative of Boston-area playwrights dedicated to mutual assistance in the work of developing new plays.
	www.m-bettencourt.com /links.html (1341 words)

	Resource Guide - American Plays and Playwrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		American Playwrights, 1880-1945: A Research and Production Sourcebook.
		Entries include biography, list of works, list of bibliographies and critical studies on the
		Spiller, R. The Roots of National Culture, American Literature to 1830.
	camellia.shc.edu /byrne/refguide/playsand.htm (347 words)

	Drama (from American literature) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Over the years, Latin American literature has developed a rich and complex diversity of themes, forms, creative idioms, and styles.
		The definitive work of American naturalism was Theodore Dresier's ‘Sister Carrie', a novel published in 1900 but suppressed until 1912 because of its frankness and supposed immorality.
		American Ballad: The Evolution of The American Ballad
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-196326?ct= (834 words)

	Library System - Howard University: Assist: Guides: African American Literature
		Alphabetic listing of authors whose poetry, short fiction and drama were published in journals and anthologies between 1829-1953.
		Chapter one is a checklist of novels, alphabetical by author; Chapter two is a list of short stories; Chapter 3 is an annotated list of secondary sources including bibliographies and critical and general studies.
		Section one lists aids to research, Section Two treats backgrounds for the student of literature, Section Three anthologies of literary history and criticism, and Section Four is an alphabetical list of authors with works and critical sources.
	www.howard.edu /library/Assist/Guides/Literature/AfroAmLit.htm (2092 words)

	American Playwrights Index
		The American Dramatist: 1690-1890 - Famous men of letters who attempted the dramatic form.
		John Guare - A biography of the American dramatist.
		William Vaughn Moody - A biography of the American playwright.
	www.theatrehistory.com /american/playwrights.html (46 words)

	U.S. Society and Values, "Contemporary U.S. Literature: Multicultural Perspectives, Department of State, International ...
		Its mission is "to enrich American cultural life by promoting knowledge of human history, thought and culture throughout the nation." The Endowment provides grants for high-quality humanities projects in four funding areas: preserving and providing access to cultural resources, education, research and public programs.
		A comprehensive list of Latino literature is appended.
		This comprehensive list of Native American literary Internet resources includes book browsers and publishers, recent publications, bibliographies, authors and their works, periodicals and criticism.
	www.usinfo.state.gov /journals/itsv/0200/ijse/biblio.htm (2033 words)

	Asian American Playwrights — www.greenwood.com
		Description: In the late nineteenth century, Asian American drama made its debut with the spotlight firmly on the lives and struggles of Asians in North America, rather than on the cultures and traditions of the Asian homeland.
		Today, Asian American playwrights continue to challenge the limitations of established theatrical conventions and direct popular attention toward issues and experiences that might otherwise be ignored or marginalized.
		Each entry includes relevant biographical information that contextualizes the works of a playwright, an interpretive description of selected plays that spotlights recurring themes and plots, a summary of the playwright's critical reception, and a bibliography of primary and secondary works.
	www.greenwood.com /books/BookDetail.asp?sku=GR1455 (330 words)

	Dramatists.us - web sites for American playwrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		WHAT WE DO Dramatists.us builds professional web sites for American playwrights without the expense of thousands of dollars in design, hosting, and maintenance fees normally associated with a professional web presence.
		The content of each site is unique to the playwright, each of whom provides the text and images for their site.
		We look forward to working with you to establish your web presence so that your identity and voice are accessible to producers, producing organizations, theatres, directors, and actors searching for their next project.
	www.dramatists.us (322 words)

	American Playwrights of Today (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is a new volume in the Modern American Writers' Series and meets a long-felt want for live, informative material about the men and women who are writing our plays today.
		Mantle's attention, and to each he has devoted a biographical sketch and a list and general criticism of his plays.
		As a dramatic critic of long standing, he knows many of the dramatists personally and has reviewed their plays, giving him a personal and intimate touch which adds greatly to his treatment of this broad subject.
	www.eoneill.com /references/29993.htm (134 words)

	Playwrights Foundation: Developing New Works by American Playwrights
		The goal of the workshop is to help make playwrights and directors incorporate each other’s methods and understand each other better in collaborative process of new play development.
		Working playwrights and directors strongly encouraged to apply, however, no prior experience is necessary.
		Maximum number of participants is 12 (6 playwrights, 6 directors) – directors and playwrights admitted by application only.
	www.playwrightsfoundation.org /workshops.shtml (1646 words)

	Playwrights' List - compilation
		It is intended to encourage aspiring playwrights, and to honor the achievement of the best original play of the year.
		The Playwrights of the selected plays will receive a stipend and have their expenses paid for by Barter while in attendance for rehearsals and performances during the festival.
		Playwrights of all ages and experience are invited to submit scripts for Lebanon Community Theatre’s (Lebanon, PA) 7th annual Play Writing Contest.
	www.bu.edu /bpt/getin/playwrightslist.html (6974 words)

	NAWPA -- Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Native American Women Playwrights Archive is a collection of original materials by Native women playwrights of the Americas.
		NAWPA hopes to identify playwrights, collect and preserve their work, try to make it widely known, and encourage performances and continued creativity.
		Plays in manuscript, disk, videotape, or other format are cataloged, given appropriate preservation treament, and made available to anyone who wishes to read them in the library.
	staff.lib.muohio.edu /nawpa (76 words)

	Hudson Review, The: Middle-Aged Playwrights
		THE LIST OF AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS who had stunning early success only to fade in their middle age is long: Edward Sheldon, Philip Barry, Clifford Odets, William Saroyan, Oscar Hammerstein II, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, and even Eugene O'Neill.
		This last is the cause too of an even more fundamental problem, which is that the bond between Caroline and Noah is so tepid; since she did not feel much for him in the first place, the split lacks the intensity of a tragic event.
		Perhaps this is because he is unique in seeing his work as an oeuvre, a cycle of plays based on African-American history, rather than as a piecemeal output in response to whatever inspirations come along.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4021/is_200504/ai_n13633053 (1577 words)

	African American Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This is a segment of the Library of Congress's American Memory Project, a digital collection of historical materials.
		Includes "A Brief history of African Americans in West Virginia," "A Timeline of West Virginia African American History," "African Americans in the Counties of Present Day West Virginia in 1860," "Biographies of Prominent African Americans in West Virginia," and "History of the American Negro: Vol.
		An exhaustive list of writers from many centuries and countries, although the focus is on English writers.
	www.bluefield.wvnet.edu /library/afamlinks.htm (3669 words)

	Library Research Workshop: African-American Theater
		The catalog is divided into three sections: Author Listing; Listing by Cultural Origin; and Books on the Theater (or subject listing).
		Annual magazine subject-index, a subject index to selected list of American and English periodical and society publications.
		American Theatre Periodicals of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries [microform].
	www.library.yale.edu /humanities/theater/instruction/afamtheater.html (2112 words)

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	American Playwrights Off Broadway Plays at Signature Theatre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Each season engages a new Playwright-in-Residence in every aspect of the creative process, allowing tremendous insight into the scope, context, and substance of a playwright's work, legacy, and continuing achievements.
		The state-of-the-art center will include world-class performance and rehearsal spaces, a café, bookstore, lounges, and classrooms, as well as other public spaces that will offer a forum for activities such as staged readings, lectures, and special events.
		The center will serve as an artistic home for playwrights, performers, directors, and designers of varying ages, aesthetics, backgrounds, and experiences and a vibrant, year-round community center for Lower Manhattan and all of New York.
	www.signaturetheatre.org /about/about.html (382 words)

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	WOMEN WRITERS
		American Female Poets, an 1853 anthology, is one of the books in fulltext in the American Verse Project at the University of Michigan.
		Native American Women Playwrights Archive at Miami University of Ohio includes author information, synopses, and more.
		Nineteenth Century American Women Writers texts is a section of the Society for the Study of American Women Writers's site.
	www.library.wisc.edu /libraries/WomensStudies/writers.htm (808 words)

	DAF -- THREE AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHTS: Williams, Albee, Shepard
		While their plays may initially seem disimilar, all three use the paradigm of American realism as a point of departure in creating works that incorporate magic realism, absurdism, performance art, and any number of other prominent 20th Century theatre movements.
		There are three research papers of approximately ten pages each due in the course (one on each of our playwrights), as well as one 30 minute group oral presentation (on a play to be determined).
		All three of the playwrights we cover have seen substantial numbers of their works translated to film; all three have also written works for the screen.
	www.sas.upenn.edu /~dfox/threeplaywrights1syllabus.html (1872 words)

	DBM Theatre NetSearch: Playwrights & Playwriting by Donn B. Murphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Fame is fleeting indeed, or sometimes just costly: When this page was originally created, one or more links for each of the playwrights listed here were active.
		PLAYWRITING SEMINARS - Toscan - This is 229-page site which constitutes an entire text on writing a full-length play, with references to screenwriting as well: "the first textbook ever to be placed on the web" [in 1995].
		Should this not be the case with any particular image, and should the creator want it removed from these pages, please contact me murphyd@gusun.georgetown.edu and I will promptly remove it, as I have no wish to infringe on anyone's rights, or to use unfairly any artist's creative product.
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	Amazon.com: In Their Own Words : Contemporary American Playwrights: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		First and foremost, I want to thank the playwrights interviewed for their insights, generosity and candor.
		American Drama 1900-1990 (Cambridge Contexts in Literature) by Don Shiach
		New Directions: A list for directors in the modern theater:
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0930452704?v=glance (653 words)

	Theatre - Plays and Playwrights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For information about living American playwrights: biographies, play synopses, applications for grants, fellowships and New Dramatists memberships.
		The Alberta Playwrights' Network is a non-profit, provincial arts service organization and registered charity dedicated to fostering playwriting in Alberta.
		The Playwrights Project is a not for profit organization that aims to "reforest the American Theatre through better writing."
	www.theatrelibrary.org /links/PlaysPlaywrights.html (833 words)

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	Drama (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		These useful books which list important works on specific topics can save you valuable time searching for the best titles to consult on your topic.
		Currently cites some 17,647 locations which list plays not commonly found in library catalogs.
		Good list of theatre resources as well as comprehensive listing of associations and institutions with strong theatre interests.
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