Shakespeare Lives British Prime Minister David Cameron · This year's four hundredth anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare is not just an opportunity to commemorate one of the greatest playwrights of all time.
In the theatre it is, of course, Shakespeare who outshines all his contemporaries such as Christopher Marlowe to the more recent playwrights such as Osborne and Pinter.
The most passionate romance novel may very well be a slightly changed version of a play by Shakespeare, which in turn is borrowed from the playwrights of Ancient Greece: same themes, different characters, different circumstances.
Stephen Hawking (1942 - ) All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
One of the new playwrights was Ben Jonson.
