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Kurrent ( German: [kʊˈʁɛnt]) is an old form of German-language handwriting based on late medieval cursive writing, also known as Kurrentschrift ("cursive script"), deutsche Schrift ("German script"), and German cursive. Over the history of its use into the first part of the 20th century, many individual letters acquired variant forms.
Teechers is a play by John Godber, written in 1984 and published in 1985. It was first performed by the Hull Truck Theatre Company at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival starring Martin Barass as Salty, Gill Tompkins as Gail and Shirley Anne Selby as Hobby. In 2010 a revival of the play was again performed at Hull Truck Theatre, before touring at other ...
Mother Courage and Her Children ( German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. [ 1] Four theatrical productions were produced in Switzerland and Germany from 1941 to 1952, the last three supervised and/or ...
Realism (theatre) Scene from A Doll's House, a 1922 silent film starring Alla Nazimova and Alan Hale Sr. The author of the original play, Henrik Ibsen, was an influential proponent of realism in the theatre. Realism in the theatre was a general movement that began in 19th-century theatre, around the 1870s, and remained present through much of ...
Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the ...
The Plays of William Shakespeare, a painting containing scenes and characters from several plays of Shakespeare; by Sir John Gilbert, c. 1849. Shakespeare's works include the 36 plays printed in the First Folio of 1623, listed according to their folio classification as comedies, histories, and tragedies. [158]
Penmanship. Example of classic American business cursive handwriting known as Spencerian script from 1884. A thin object (pen), held with three fingers, allows you to draw thin lines. Penmanship is the technique of writing with the hand using a writing instrument.
Earliest picture book specifically for children. [9] [10] A Token for Children. Being An Exact Account of the Conversion, Holy and Exemplary Lives, and Joyful Deaths of several Young Children: James Janeway: 1672: One of the first books specifically written for children which shaped much eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing for ...