Article: morality play

Article: John Wilbye
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      31 words ..., 1574-1638, English madrigal composer. Although only two sets of his madrigals (1598, 1609) are extant, their excellence distinguishes him as perhaps the greatest English madrigalist of the 16th cent.

Article: Dada
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre;      59 words ...Dada, art movement of the 1920s which was later to have a vital influence on European drama. Irrational, nihilistic, and anarchic, it attacked the complacency of so-called ‘society’, and set out to arouse...

Article: Nōh plays
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      70 words ......15th cent., and flourished during the Tokugawa period (1652–1868). Both Pound and Yeats were much influenced by the ritual, simplicity, and stylization of the Noh theatre, and it has had a considerable impact on 20th-cent. European drama.

Article: Charles Grant, a literary mediator: With three unpublished letters to George Eliot.
The Modern Language Review;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......merits of George Eliot: 'George Eliot is in my opinion the greatest English novelist, the greatest writer that England has in our age...death of Thackeray the position of George Eliot as the greatest English novelist of the day has been all but undisputed, and it...

Article: theatre
The Oxford Companion to Irish History;      700+ words ......Ireland (more nationalistic and with a greater emphasis on European drama), which survived into the 1920s. Amateur groups in imitation...filled by the Dublin Drama League, founded to present modern European drama (a similar group in Cork fell foul of puritanical objectors...

Article: Pirandello, Luigi
The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature;      73 words ...Pirandello, Luigi (1867–1936), Italian dramatist, short story writer, and novelist, who exercised a pervasive influence on European drama by challenging the conventions of naturalism . In his plays, which include Sei personaggi in cerca di autore ( Six Characters...

Article: Juliana of Norwich
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      77 words ......Dominant ideas are the great love of God for men and the detestable character of human sin. She is considered one of the greatest English mystics. Bibliography: See edition of her book by G. Tyrell, S.J. (1920); study by P. F. Chambers (1955).

Article: Hall, Sir Edward Marshall
The Oxford Companion to British History;      111 words ...Hall, Sir Edward Marshall (1858–1929). Hall was one of the greatest English advocates and a legend in his own time and since. He enjoyed, at the height of his powers, the sort of reputation and glamour in...

Article: Boston
The Oxford Companion to British History;      101 words ...Boston, on the river Witham in Lincolnshire, was once one of the greatest English ports. It became a town only after 1066, but rapidly flourished by exporting wool. In the 13th cent. it paid more tax than any...

Article: Samuel Cooper
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      111 words ...1609-72, one of the greatest English miniaturists. A student of Hoskins, he worked in London from c.1642. He painted portraits of numerous celebrated Englishmen. His...

Article: Yeats, W.B.
World Encyclopedia;      183 words ...Yeats, W.B. ( William Butler ) (1865–1939) Irish poet and dramatist, often cited as the greatest English language poet of the 20th century. In 1904, he and Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre , Dublin, as an Irish national theatre...

Article: Ælfric
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      161 words ..., c.955-1020, English writer and Benedictine monk. He was the greatest English scholar during the revival of learning fostered by the Benedictine monasteries in the second half of the 10th cent. His aim was...

Article: Arundel, Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists;      131 words ......Thomas Howard, 2nd Earl of (1585–1646). English diplomat, collector, and patron. Apart from Charles I, he was the greatest English collector of his time. His knowledge of art was based partly on extensive travels in Europe, his most important journey...

Article: Ely, Reginald
A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture;      217 words ......Chapel, Cambridge, from its commencement, he is a likely candidate as its architect, and must be regarded as one of the greatest English architects of C15. His name is first associated with Peterhouse, Cambridge, in 1438, where he built the stair to the library...