Sentence examples for playwright claims from inspiring English sources

Bond, however, is respectful to his profession's leader in comparison with Shaw, who himself rewrote one of the tragedies as Caesar and Cleopatra and leaves little doubt about the implied victor in the title bout billed in Shakes Versus Shav, where the younger playwright claims his own Heartbreak House to be a perfecting of King Lear.

The playwright claimed his "first contact with a free society" in the city's French Quarter, whose misfit transients inspired characters like Stanley and Stella from "A Streetcar Named Desire".

He found Warhol lying in a pool of blood, having just been shot at close range by Valerie Solanas, an angry playwright who claimed Warhol had been stealing her ideas.

The Emma Thompson period drama Effie, about one of the Victorian era's most infamous love triangles, is now cleared for release after winning a second copyright case in New York against a US playwright who claimed it was based on his work.

The American playwright Gregory Murphy claimed that it was an infringement on his play The Countess, which deals with the same story, but in March 2013 a judge ruled that they were "quite dissimilar in their two approaches to fictionalising the same historical events".

NOT many playwrights can claim that a theater was built for them, let alone one constructed by New York City's largest nonprofit theater organization, the Roundabout Theater Company.

The playwright David Hare once claimed that: "The two most depressing words in the English language are 'literary fiction'".

The playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker today claimed that critics at her first night on Monday were in no fit condition to review a play after a boozy theatre awards lunch.

I recall that Knightley's mother, the playwright Sharman Macdonald, once claimed that her daughter was born 45… "And would meet herself when she was 22," Knightley laughs.

In April of this year, in an interview with this paper, US playwright Lynn Nottage claimed that her piece Ruined, set in the Democratic Republic of Congo, wasn't being premiered at the National Theatre because she'd been told (though it wasn't clear by whom) they'd "already done their Africa play last year".

Its modernity was such that the playwright Thornton Wilder once claimed that the Napoleon scene was referenced in "Finnegan's Wake," in the lines, occurring early in the book, "This is the three lipoleum Coyne Grouching down in the living detch" — with the brothers turned into the three lipoleum (Joyce having presumably edited out Zeppo), and Groucho transformed into a participle.