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:
“Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity to history, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“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)
“Our true history is scarcely ever deciphered by others. The chief part of the drama is a monologue, or rather an intimate debate between God, our conscience, and ourselves. Tears, griefs, depressions, disappointments, irritations, good and evil thoughts, decisions, uncertainties, deliberations—all these belong to our secret, and are almost all incommunicable and intransmissible, even when we try to speak of them, and even when we write them down.”
—Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)