Drama
- 2010 — Romulus Linney
- 2004 — John Guare
- 1998 — Horton Foote
- 1992 — Sam Shepard
- 1986 — Sidney Kingsley
- 1980 — Edward Albee
- 1969 — Tennessee Williams
- 1964 — Lillian Hellman
- 1959 — Arthur Miller
- 1954 — Maxwell Anderson
- 1941 — Robert E. Sherwood
- 1931 — William Gillette
- 1922 — Eugene O'Neill
- 1913 — Augustus Thomas
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Famous quotes containing the word drama:
“Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody’s piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.”
—Igor Stravinsky (1882–1971)
“If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer’s contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.”
—Eric Bentley (b. 1916)
“The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)