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:
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1859–1924)
“Life’s so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Drama begins where there’s freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That’s why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who’s Who.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.”
—Minna Antrim (b. 1861)