Ionesco was born in Olt County, Romania, to a Romanian father belonging to the Orthodox Christian church and a mother of French and Romanian heritage, whose faith was Protestant (the faith into which ...
Novels and autobiography Entries show: English-language translation of title (French-language title) / Our Lady of the Flowers (Notre Dame des Fleurs) 1942/1943The Miracle of the Rose (Miracle de la ...
Genet's mother was a young prostitute who raised him for the first seven months of his life before putting him up for adoption. Thereafter Genet was raised in the provincial town of Alligny-en-Morvan, ...
Croix de guerre (France)Médaille de la Résistance (France)1959 honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin1961 International Publishers' Formentor Prize (shared with Jorge Luis Borges).1968 Fore ...
Croix de guerre (France)Médaille de la Résistance (France)1959 honorary doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin1961 International Publishers' Formentor Prize (shared with Jorge Luis Borges).1968 Fore ...
Early life and education The Becketts were members of the Anglican Church of Ireland. The family home, Cooldrinagh in the Dublin suburb of Foxrock, was a large house and garden complete with tennis co ...
Plays within this group are absurd in that they focus not on logical acts, realistic occurrences, or traditional character development; they, instead, focus on human beings trapped in an incomprehensi ...
The term was coined by the critic Martin Esslin, who made it the title of a book on the subject first published in 1961 and in two later revised editions; the third and final edition appeared in 2004 ...
"Bohemians of the Latin Quarter inspired the first modern cabaret in Paris that emerged in the new bohemian quarter after the Paris Commune-Montmartre. Rodolphe Salis, an entrepreneurial entertainment ...
There is no clear consensus about the end, or if there was an end, to the Surrealist movement. Some art historians suggest that World War II effectively disbanded the movement. However, art historian ...
The word 'surrealist' was coined by Guillaume Apollinaire and first appeared in the preface to his play Les Mamelles de Tirésias, which was written in 1903 and first performed in 1917.World War I sca ...
Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. The beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of World War I. For many participants, the movement was a ...
It is not clear for which companies Shakespeare wrote his early plays. The title page of the 1594 edition of Titus Andronicus reveals that the play had been acted by three different troupes. After the ...
Main article: Shakespeare's lifeEarly lifeWilliam Shakespeare was the son of John Shakespeare, an alderman and a successful glover originally from Snitterfield, and Mary Arden, the daughter of an affl ...
In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies, though today many scholars recognize a fourth category, romance, to describ ...
