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Chikamatsu, who wrote more than 100 plays, is so revered he is known as this British bard "of Japan" |
Shakespeare
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$400 |
DJ |
INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS |
2009-02-16 |
#5631 |
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Now best remembered as a playwright, in his day he was famous for playing the ghost of Hamlet's father |
(himself) William Shakespeare
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$800 |
J |
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS |
2003-04-14 |
#4296 |
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Most of this playwright's "As You Like It" is a dramatization of Thomas Lodge's novel "Rosalynde" |
Shakespeare
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$200 |
DJ |
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS |
1996-03-25 |
#2671 |
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His play "The Comedy of Errors" was inspired by the ancient Roman comedy "Menaechmi" |
Shakespeare
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$200 |
DJ |
PLAYWRIGHTS |
1992-07-13 |
#1831 |
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In 1818 Thomas Bowdler published 10 volumes of this author's plays that he had "purified" |
Shakespeare
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$400 |
DJ |
PLAYWRIGHTS |
1991-12-18 |
#1683 |
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On his 1582 marriage license the bride's name is Anne Whateley, not Anne Hathaway |
Shakespeare
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$400 |
DJ |
PLAYWRIGHTS |
1991-09-04 |
#1608 |
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Shaw called the universal unquestioning reverence for this playwright "Bardolatry" |
Shakespeare
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$200 |
DJ |
PLAYWRIGHTS |
1990-05-16 |
#1328 |
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2 of his fellow actors compiled the 1st folio of his works, published in 1623, 7 years after his death |
William Shakespeare
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$100 |
J |
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS |
1989-10-11 |
#1173 |