William Archer (1856-1924)
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Archer wrote extensively about the stage and craft, and was a major translator of Ibsen into English. He seems to have favored Ibsen's prose (paragraph) works, and put them forward to change Anglophone drama. |
W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
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Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
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James Bridie (1888-1951)
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Full bibliography |
Peter Brook (1925-2022)
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J. Comyns Carr (1849-1916)
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Ronald Duncan (1914-1982)
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A friend and mentee of Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot. Instrumental in setting up and naming the English Stage Company at London's Royal Court Theatre, which opened in 1956. More information at the University of Exeter. |
Lord Dunsany (1878-1957)
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T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
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James Forsyth (1913-2005)
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Additional information at Doollee, and Encyclopedia.com |
Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
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Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
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Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
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Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
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Chester Kallman (1921-1975)
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Alfred Kreymborg (1883-1966)
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A proponent of free verse as a new way into verse drama. A friend of Ezra Pound. |
Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
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MacNeice also wrote several plays which were never produced, and many for the BBC which were never published. |
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967)
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Stephen Phillips (1864-1915)
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Other than Paolo and Francesca, which is modelled on Elizabethan verse drama, Phillips was interested in reviving the Greek drama. |
Terrence Rattigan (1911-1977)
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Fascinating article on "Rattigan versus Shaw: The 'Drama of Ideas' Debate" by Susan Rusinko |
Anne Ridler
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Montagu Slater (1902-1956)
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Stephen Spender (1909-1995)
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Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
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Charles Williams
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Colin Wilson (1931-2013)
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Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
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See also:
- 1905: The Birth of Parsival, R. C. Trevelyan
- 1905: Gwenevere: A Lyric Play, Written for Music, Earnest Rhys, with music by Vincent Thomas
- 1906: Guenevere: A Play in Five Acts, Stark Young
- 1906: Guinevere: A Tragedy in Three Acts, Graham Hill
- 1907: Merlin and Vivian: A Lyric Dream, Ethel Watts Mumford, with music by Henry Kimball Hadley
- 1908: Lanval: A Drama in Four Acts, T. E. Ellis
- 1908: The Farwell of Lancelot and Guinevere, W. E. B. Henderson
- 1908: The Young Knight or How Gareth Won His Spurs, Reverend James Yeames
- 1908: The Masque of the Grail, Earnest Rhys
- 1908: Enid: A Lyric Play Written for Music, Earnest Rhys
- 1909: Lancelot and Elaine: A Play in Five Acts, Morley Steynor
- 1909: The Birth of Arthur: A Choral Drama, libretto by Rutland Boughton and Reginald R. Buckley, music by Rutland Boughton
- 1911: Uther and Igraine, Choral Drama (Music Drama of the Future), Reginald R. Buckley, with music by Rutland Boughton
- 1911: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A Play in Five Acts, Reverend James Yeames
- 1912: The Tragedy of Etarre, Rhys Carpenter
- 1914: The Queen’s Crags, Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
- 1914: The New Parsifal: An Operatic Fable, R. C. Trevelyan
- 1916: The Round Table, Rutland Boughton
- 1918: Lancelot, Algernon Charles Swinburne
- 1918: La Mort Sans Pitié, Ernest Rhys
- 1923: Elaine: A Poetic Drama, Mildred Weinberger
- 1923: The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Conrwall at Tintagel in Lyonnesse, Thomas Hardy
- 1924: The Famous Tragedy of The Queen of Cornwall, Rutland Boughton (inspired by Hardy)
- 1929: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Charles William Bailey
- 1930: Birds of Rhiannon: A Grove Play, Waldemar Young, music by Edward Harris
- 1934: The Lily Maid, Rutland Boughton
- 1944: Galahad, Rutland Boughton
- 1945: Avalon, Rutland Boughton
- 1949: Thor, with Angels, Christopher Fry
- 1981: The Marvels of Merlin, Tim Porter