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31Molière — /mohl yair /; Fr. /maw lyerdd /, n. (Jean Baptiste Poquelin) 1622 73, French actor and playwright. * * * orig. Jean Baptiste Poquelin (baptized Jan. 15, 1622, Paris, France died Feb. 17, 1673, Paris) French playwright, actor, and director. The… …
32Pierre Corneille — Born 6 June 1606 Rouen Died 1 October 1684 Paris Occupation …
33ESTHER — (Heb. אֶסְתֵּר), daughter of Abihail, an exile at susa , and heroine of the Book of Esther. The name Esther is probably from Old Persian star (well attested in the later Persian dialects), with the same meaning as English star. She is once called …
34Waiting for Godot — Infobox Play name = Waiting for Godot image size = 200px writer = Samuel Beckett characters = Estragon Vladimir Lucky Pozzo Boy date of premiere = January 5th, 1953 Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters wait for… …
35French Literature — • Origin, foundations, and types Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. French Literature French Literature † …
36Silvia Monfort — (born Silvia Favre Bertin; 6 June 1923, Paris ndash;30 March 1991, Paris) was a French actress and theatre director. Daughter of the sculptor Charles Favre Bertin and wife of Pierre Gruneberg, this talented actress was an undying champion of the… …
37Phèdre — Infobox Play | name = Phèdre caption = Title page from the first edition of Phèdre et Hippolyte writer = Jean Racine characters = Phèdre Œnone Hippolyte Théramène Thésée Aricie setting = The royal palace at Trézène Phèdre (originally Phèdre et… …
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39Arabic literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the Arabic language. The tradition of Arabic literature stretches back some 16 centuries to unrecorded beginnings in the Arabian Peninsula. At certain points in the development of… …
40Jacques Copeau — (February 4 1879 ndash; October 20 1949) was an influential French theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded his famous Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in Paris, he wrote theater reviews for several Parisian journals, worked… …
