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Arthur Miller : B( Oct/17,1915) D(Feb/10/2005) Arthur Miller was an American playwright, essayist, and prominent figure in twentieth-century American theatre . Among his plays are All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953) and A View from the Bridge (1955, revised 1956). He also wrote the screenplay for the film The Misfits (1961). Miller was often in the public eye, particularly during the late 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s. During this time, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama ; testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee ; and was married to Marilyn Monroe . He received the Prince of Asturias Award in 2002 and Jerusalem Prize in 2003. The drama of the family is at the core of all of Miller's major plays, but nowhere is it more prominent than in the realism of All My Sons and the impressionism of Death of a Salesman . Death of a Salesman (1949) secured Miller's reputation as one of the nation'

Samuel Beckett : B(Apr/13/1906), D(Dec/22/1989) Samuel Beckett was born on April 13, 1906, in Dublin, Ireland. During the 1930s and 1940s he wrote his first novels and short stories. He wrote a trilogy of novels in the 1950s as well as famous plays like Waiting for Godot . In 1969 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Samuel Beckett’s first publication, Molloy , enjoyed modest sales, but more importantly praise from French critics. Soon, Waiting for Godot, achieved quick success at the small Theatre de Babylone putting Beckett in the international spotlight. The play ran for 400 performances and enjoyed critical praise. Samuel Beckett wrote in both French and English, but his most well-known works, written between WWII and the 1960s, were written in French. Early on he realized his writing had to be subjective and come from his own thoughts and experiences. His works are filled with allusions to other writers such as Dante , Rene Descartes , and James Joyce

Henrik Ibsen : B(Mar/20/1828), D(may/23/1906) Ibsen was a major 19th-century Norwegian playwright , theatre director, and poet . He is often referred to as "the father of realism" and is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre. His major works include Brand , Peer Gynt , An Enemy of the People , Emperor and Galilean , A Doll's House , Hedda Gabler , Ghosts , The Wild Duck , Rosmersholm , and The Master Builder .  He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare ,and A Doll's House became the world's most performed play by the early 20th century. He is widely regarded as the most important playwright since Shakespeare.   He influenced other playwrights and novelists such as George Bernard Shaw , Oscar Wilde , Arthur Miller , James Joyce , Eugene O'Neill and Miroslav Krleža . In 1868, Ibsen moved to Germany, where he wrote one of his most famous works: the play A Doll's House . In 1890, he wrote Hedda