5 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
English playwright who invented the blank verse tragedy that Shakespeare inherited — Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta — and who died mysteriously at 29 in a tavern stabbing, possibly as a spy.
Harold Pinter was a British playwright whose theater — 'The Birthday Party', 'The Homecoming', 'Betrayal' — invented 'Pinteresque' as a word for menacing understatement, and whose screenplays adapted major English novels into landmark films.
American playwright and screenwriter who wrote Doubt (Pulitzer Prize 2005), Moonstruck (Academy Award screenplay), and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea — whose work consistently explores moral certainty, doubt, and the mystery of other minds.
American playwright and New Yorker journalist who wrote The Days of Duveen — the definitive profile of art dealer Joseph Duveen — and was one of the most successful Broadway playwrights of the 1930s and 40s.
English Renaissance writer and playwright who wrote Rosalynde (1590) — the prose romance that Shakespeare transformed into As You Like It — and who represents the quality of source material Shakespeare routinely exceeded.