"the Shavian glyphs. Shavian alphabet The Shavian alphabet (also known as the Shaw alphabet) is an alphabet conceived as a way to provide simple, phonetic orthography for the English language to replace the difficulties of conventional spelling. It was posthumously funded by and named after Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw. Shaw set three main criteria for the new alphabet: it should be (1) at least 40 letters; (2) as ""phonetic"" as possible (that is, letters should have a to phonemes); and (3) distinct from the Latin alphabet to avoid the impression that the new spellings were simply ""misspellings"". The Shavian"
"Sergei Chavain Sergei Chavain, also spelled Čavajn (Mari: Сергей Чавайн, pronounced ; 6 October 1888, Maly Karamas – 11 November 1937) was a Mari poet and playwright, born Sergei Grigorievich Grigoriev (). In 1905 he wrote the first literary poem in the Mari language, ""Oto"" (Ото – The Grove). In 1908 he graduated from Kazan Teachers' Seminary. His first play was ""The Wild Duck"" in 1912, a satire of Tsarist bureaucrats. After the October Revolution, Chavain wrote several plays for the first Mari mobile theatre, such as ""The Autonomy"" (1920) and ""The Sun Rises, the Storm-clouds Disappear"" (1921), inspired by"
"George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as ""Man and Superman"" (1902), ""Pygmalion"" (1912)"" and Saint Joan"" (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Born in Dublin, Shaw"
"Vladimir Shchiglev Vladimir Romanovich Shchiglev (, 1840–1903) was a Russian satirical poet and playwright, who occasionally used the pseudonyms ""Shchigrov"" (for his plays) and ""Romanych"" (for poetry, as well as journalistic miscellaneous work). Shchiglev, a Saint Petersburg University alumnus, whose major early influence was the children's writer Vasily Vodovozov, his one time gymnasium tutor, started to write early and later contributed regularly to ""Iskra"", ""Russkoye Slovo"", ""Budilnik"" and ""Niva"". His best-known play, a vaudeville called ""Pomolvka v Galyornoy gavani"" (Помолвка в Галерной гавани, The Galernaya Bay Engagement, 1873), for thirty years remained part of the Russian Imperial Theatres' repertoire. Well-received"
"and named the Sundukian Theatre, in his honor, His other major works include Embarrassment, Sneezing at Night is a Good Omen, The Husbands, Love and Freedom. Derenik Demirchian (1877–1956) and Alexander Shirvanzade (1858–1935) were playwrights who were already famous before the Communist take-over of Armenia. They stayed in Armenia and continued their creative work there for the rest of their lives. Demirchyan, a contemporary of Levon Shant, was a prolific novelist, poet and playwright. His most popular play, Nazar the Brave (Kaj Nazar, 1923), satirizes bourgeois morality and has been adapted very successfully to film. Alexander Shirvanzade, like his counterparts,"
"had noted in ""Note for Technicians"" are added. ""Pygmalion"" remains Shaw's most popular play. The play's widest audiences know it as the inspiration for the highly romanticized 1956 [[My Fair Lady|musical]] and 1964 film [[My Fair Lady (film)|""My Fair Lady""]]. ""Pygmalion"" has transcended cultural and language barriers since its first production. The British Museum contains ""images of the Polish production...; a series of shots of a wonderfully Gallicised Higgins and Eliza in the first French production in Paris in 1923; a fascinating set for a Russian production of the 1930s. There was no country which didn't have its own 'take'"
"Shakespeare's plays The plays written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world. Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of them remained unpublished until 1623, when the posthumous First Folio was published. The traditional division of his plays into tragedies, comedies, and histories"
"Shakespeare's influence Shakespeare's influence extends from theatre and literature to present-day movies, Western philosophy, and the English language itself. William Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the history of the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He transformed European theatre by expanding expectations about what could be accomplished through innovation in characterization, plot, language and genre. Shakespeare's writings have also impacted a large number of notable novelists and poets over the years, including Herman Melville Charles Dickens, and Maya Angelou, and continue to influence new authors even today. Shakespeare is the most quoted writer in the"
"is known for his novels ""One Can Hear the Noise of the Forest"", about the 1905 Revolution, and ""Elnet"", about the life of a pre-revolutionary Mari village. A victim of the Great Purge during the ""struggle with bourgeois nationalism"", he was executed in Yoshkar-Ola on 11 November 1937 and was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956. The State prize of Mari El is named after Chavain. Sergei Chavain Sergei Chavain, also spelled Čavajn (Mari: Сергей Чавайн, pronounced ; 6 October 1888, Maly Karamas – 11 November 1937) was a Mari poet and playwright, born Sergei Grigorievich Grigoriev (). In 1905 he wrote"
"Shackerley Marmion Shackerley Marmion (January 1603 – 1639), also Shakerley, Shakerly, Schackerley, Marmyon, Marmyun, or Mermion, was an early 17th-century dramatist, often classed among the Sons of Ben, the followers of Ben Jonson who continued his style of comedy. He was also a friend and perhaps a protégé of Thomas Heywood. The playwright's father, Shackerley Marmion (son of a London lawyer and member of a junior line of the Marmion Barons of Tamworth), held the manor at Aynho in Northamptonshire but was habitually in debt; in time he would pass his debts on to his son. Shakerley Jnr was baptised"
"people. William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the ""Bard of Avon"". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon,"
"Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac Michel-Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac, full name Adolphe Michel Joseph Gentil de Chavagnac, (Paris, 3 July 1770 – Passy, 27 May 1846) was a 19th-century French chansonnier and playwright. After a career in the army, he became known in theater as Marc-Antoine Madeleine Désaugiers's collaborator with whom he published more than thirty plays. Managing director of the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1821-1822, he also was Private Secretary to the Director of Water and Forests (1822), a founding member of the , and honorary reader of the King (Charles X) from 1823 to 1830. His plays, often circumstantial,"
"William Shakespeare William Shakespeare (bapt. 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the ""Bard of Avon"". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 39 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire."
"Who Is Sylvia? Who Is Sylvia? is a 1950 comedy play by the British writer Terence Rattigan about a man obsessed with the image of a woman he met as a seventeen year old and his search for her throughout the rest of his life. The play offered a thinly veiled portrayal of Rattigan's own philandering father. Like ""Perchance to Dream"", Ivor Novello's long-running musical terminating only two years previously, Rattigan chose a line from William Shakespeare for his title. The line is the first wistful question of a song passage in ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"". The play opened"
"began writing as a play for children, became a study of the nature of religion and how to put Christian precepts into practice. ""Pygmalion"" (1912) is a Shavian study of language and speech and their importance in society and in personal relationships. To correct the impression left by the original performers that the play portrayed a romantic relationship between the two main characters Shaw rewrote the ending to make it clear that the heroine will marry another, minor character. Shaw's only full-length play from the war years is ""Heartbreak House"" (1917), which in his words depicts ""cultured, leisured Europe before"
"Wilhelm Meyer Lutz. George Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"" (1912, staged 1914) owes something to both the Greek Pygmalion and the legend of ""King Cophetua and the beggar maid""; in which a king lacks interest in women, but one day falls in love with a young beggar-girl, later educating her to be his queen. Shaw's comedy of manners in turn was the basis for the Broadway musical ""My Fair Lady"" (1956), as well as numerous other adaptations. P. L. Deshpande's play ""Ti Fulrani"" (""Queen of Flowers"") is also based on Shaw's ""Pygmalion"". The play was a huge success in Marathi theater and"
"Pygmalion (play) Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological figure. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. In ancient Greek mythology, Pygmalion fell in love with one of his sculptures, which then came to life. The general idea of that myth was a popular subject for Victorian era English playwrights, including one of Shaw's influences, W. S. Gilbert, who wrote a successful play based on the story called ""Pygmalion and Galatea"" that was first presented in 1871. Shaw would also have been familiar with the burlesque version, ""Galatea, or Pygmalion"
"could afford to publish only one book: a version of Shaw's play ""Androcles and the Lion"", in a bi-alphabetic edition with both conventional and Shavian spellings. (1962 Penguin Books, London). Copies were sent to major libraries in English-speaking countries. Between 1963 and 1965, 8 issues of the journal, ""Shaw-script"", were published by Kingsley Read in Worcester, U.K. The journal used Shaw's Alphabet, and much of the content was submitted by Shaw enthusiasts. In more recent years, there have been several published works of classical literature transliterated into Shavian. The first, released in 2012, was the works of Edgar Allan Poe"
"in 1917, aged 68. His son Yuri was an artist whose works appeared in the Tretyakof Gallery. He also had two children out of wedlock, one of whom, Boris Raikov, became a professor of history. Ippolit Shpazhinsky Ippolit Vasilievich Shpazhinsky () () was a Russian playwright and poet. He is best known for his play ""The Enchantress"" (""Чародейка""), which Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky adapted as his opera of the same name. Ippolit Shpazhinsky was born in Voronezh in 1848. He received a military education, and served for some years in an uhlan regiment. He resigned his commission to devote himself to"
"This occasion was a striking example of the growing prominence of Shakespeare stars in the theatrical culture, the big attraction being the competition and rivalry between the male leads at Covent Garden and Drury Lane, Spranger Barry and David Garrick. In the 1740s, Charles Macklin, in roles such as Malvolio and Shylock, and David Garrick, who won fame as Richard III in 1741, helped make Shakespeare truly popular. Garrick went on to produce 26 of the plays at Drury Lane Theatre between 1747 and 1776, and he held a great Shakespeare Jubilee at Stratford in 1769. He freely adapted Shakespeare's"
"cuts, while Edward Gordon Craig and others called for abstract staging. Both approaches have influenced the variety of Shakespearean production styles seen today. Shakespeare's plays The plays written by English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare have the reputation of being among the greatest in the English language and in Western literature. Traditionally, the plays are divided into the genres of tragedy, history, and comedy; they have been translated into every major living language, in addition to being continually performed all around the world. Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of"
"died the following year. Shackerley Marmion Shackerley Marmion (January 1603 – 1639), also Shakerley, Shakerly, Schackerley, Marmyon, Marmyun, or Mermion, was an early 17th-century dramatist, often classed among the Sons of Ben, the followers of Ben Jonson who continued his style of comedy. He was also a friend and perhaps a protégé of Thomas Heywood. The playwright's father, Shackerley Marmion (son of a London lawyer and member of a junior line of the Marmion Barons of Tamworth), held the manor at Aynho in Northamptonshire but was habitually in debt; in time he would pass his debts on to his son."
"person. Schubert dedicated ""An Sylvia"" to one of his donors, Marie Pachler, a successful woman, talented pianist and composer from Graz who knew Beethoven personally and enjoyed bringing musicians over to her house for entertainment. An Sylvia An Sylvia, D. 891; Op. 106, No. 4, is a Lied composed by Romantic era composer Franz Schubert in 1826 and published in 1828. The text of the lied is a German translation of the poem, ""Who is Sylvia"", from Act 4, Scene 2 of the play, ""The Two Gentlemen of Verona"", by William Shakespeare. The text was translated into German from English"
"writing for the stage was influenced by Henrik Ibsen. His early political plays were not popular, but he made a breakthrough with ""John Bull's Other Island"" (1904). Shaw was extremely prolific, and his collected writings filled 36 volumes. Many of his plays are now forgotten, but a number, including ""Major Barbara"", ""Saint Joan"" (usually considered his masterpiece) and ""Pygmalion "" are still regularly performed. ""Pygmalion "" was the basis for the movie ""My Fair Lady"", a fact which benefitted the National Gallery of Ireland as Shaw had left the royalties of the play to the gallery. A statue to the"
"""Shaw, Sartre, Ionesco, Fry, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Noël Coward, Ronald Duncan, Rattigan, Harold Pinter, Ann Jellicoe, Peter Shaffer, Edward Albee, Jean Anouilh, Maxwell Anderson and Orton"". According to The Pioneer, The dynamism of TAW productions, their stylistic experimentation and directorial subtlety, were never in doubt on either side of the proscenium. But TAW's plays proved too radical in the context of existing provincial attitudes. As a theatre educator as early as 1973, Raj Bisaria suggested to the State Government that he should start a semi-professional repertory theatre in Uttar Pradesh, in 1974 the State Government went a few steps"
"Reversed"". Shaw's play has been adapted numerous times, most notably as the musical ""My Fair Lady"" and its film version. Shaw mentioned that the character of Professor Henry Higgins was inspired by several British professors of phonetics: Alexander Melville Bell, Alexander J. Ellis, Tito Pagliardini, but above all, the cantankerous Henry Sweet. Shaw wrote the play in early 1912 and read it to famed actress Mrs. Patrick Campbell in June. She came on board almost immediately, but her mild nervous breakdown contributed to the delay of a London production. ""Pygmalion"" premiered at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on 16 October"
"more than 30 Shakespeare titles and over 18 period classics by the likes of Aristophanes, Shaw, Aphra Behn, Jean Racine, Christopher Marlowe, Jean Anouilh, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Niccolò Machiavelli, Albert Camus, Jean Genet, Tennessee Williams, Molière, Bertolt Brecht, Jean Cocteau, and Thornton Wilder. In 1995, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company was the first American company to perform on the stage of Shakespeare's Globe in London, England. After a $1.6 million renovation and expansion, The Atlanta Shakespeare Company opened The Shakespeare Tavern Playhouse on October 15, 1999. Complete with a Globe-inspired balcony, the renovated Tavern created an even more active Elizabethan actor/audience dynamic."
"Cathedral"", in which Becket's slayers explain their actions to the audience, might have been influenced by ""Saint Joan"". The critic Eric Bentley comments that Eliot's later play ""The Confidential Clerk"" ""had all the earmarks of Shavianism ... without the merits of the real Bernard Shaw"". Among more recent British dramatists, Crawford marks Tom Stoppard as ""the most Shavian of contemporary playwrights""; Shaw's ""serious farce"" is continued in the works of Stoppard's contemporaries Alan Ayckbourn, Henry Livings and Peter Nichols. Shaw's influence crossed the Atlantic at an early stage. Bernard Dukore notes that he was successful as a dramatist in America"
"profile of Richard Digby Day can be found at the Northcott Theatre website: http://www.northcott-theatre.co.uk/people/digbyday.html Richard Digby Day Richard Digby Day (born 27 December 1941) is a British stage director and international professor and lecturer. He is particularly well known for his work in the classical theater, and is considered to have a special penchant for the plays of William Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. He is Vice President of the Shaw Society, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and has staged more productions of Shaw's work than any other living director. His productions of Stephen Sondheim musicals have"
"a ready-made audience eager from the start to lend support and fill the seats of Vienna’s English Theatre. Within a few years Franz Schafranek’s confident vision, personal charisma and tireless leadership had made Vienna’s English Theatre into a permanent fixture in the city’s theatrical landscape. Ever searching out new possibilities, he gained wide recognition for his theatre and for the city of Vienna as a forward-looking centre of international theatre. He staged world premieres of works by renowned American playwrights, Tennessee Williams, William Saroyan and Edward Albee, as well as numerous continental premieres of British and American dramas. He also"
"Shalva Dadiani Shalva Dadiani () (May 9, 1874 – March 15, 1959) was a Georgian novelist, playwright, and a theatre actor. Born in Zestaponi, western Georgia (then Kutais Governorate of Imperial Russia), into the family of a writer and translator Prince Nikolaoz Dadiani (1844-1896), a member of the Dadiani noble family, and his wife, Princess Lydia Tsulukidze. He had a sister, Princess Mariam Dadani (1870-1958). He was a writer, playwright, producer and fiction writer. He was also an actor, theatre-goer, publicist, politician and public figure. He married Princess Elena Andronikashvili (1879-1956). His first collection of poems appeared in 1892, followed"
"Sagnier. Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin, known by his stage name Molière (; ; 15 January 162217 February 1673), was a French playwright, actor and poet, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and universal literature. His extant works includes comedies, farces, tragicomedies, comédie-ballets, and more. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed at the Comédie-Française more often than those of any other playwright today. His influence is such that the French language itself is often referred to as the ""language of Molière"". Born into a prosperous family and having studied"
"40 comedies, 11 of which survive and are still being performed. Aristophanes' comedy style took the form of satyr plays. The English poet and playwright William Shakespeare wrote many comedies. A Shakespearean comedy is one that has a happy ending, usually involving marriages between the unmarried characters, and a tone and style that is more light-hearted than Shakespeare's other plays. Charlie Chaplin was the most popular screen comedian of the first half of the 20th century. Chaplin and Stan Laurel were protégés of Fred Karno, the English theatre impresario of British music hall, and in his biography Laurel stated, ""Fred"