#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $400: The working class characters in a 1957 John Osbourne play "Look Back" this title way at British society in anger |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $800: A psychiatrist works to bring a young man back from the brink of madness in this beastly Peter Shaffer play Equus |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: Peter Morgan's "Frost/Nixon" takes place during interviews in this year, 3 years after Nixon's resignation 1977 |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2,000 (Daily Double): In this Noel Coward play, a man's life is upended by the jealous ghost of his first wife Blithe Spirit |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | BRITISH PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: You can see the second king of this name as a prince in "Braveheart", or see his downfall in a Christopher Marlowe play Edward |
#7747, aired 2018-04-24 | TWIN PEEKS $1000: Last name of twin British playwrights Anthony & Peter, seen here Shaffer |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $400: From a 1585 will, the only extant copy of the handwriting of this playwright shows he spelled his name M-A-R-L-E-Y Christopher Marlowe |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $800: If you were a friend of this "Present Laughter" playwright, you got to call him "Noely" Noel Coward |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1200: In "The Rivals", Richard Brinsley Sheridan created this Mrs. whose bungling of words has made her immortal Mrs. Malaprop |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: Before "The Mikado" & other librettos, he wrote serious plays on social themes like "Ought We to Visit Her?" Gilbert |
#7593, aired 2017-09-20 | BRITISH PLAYWRIGHTS $2000: This "Betrayal" dramatist was Oscar-nominated for his adaptation of "The French Lieutenant's Woman" Harold Pinter |
#5631, aired 2009-02-16 | INTERNATIONAL PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Chikamatsu, who wrote more than 100 plays, is so revered he is known as this British bard "of Japan" Shakespeare |
#4335, aired 2003-06-06 | PLAYWRIGHTS $1600: These British twin brother playwrights wrote mystery novels under the rather obvious alias Peter Anthony Peter & Anthony Shaffer |
#4296, aired 2003-04-14 | ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This British actress seen here based the heroine of her play "The Mandrake Root" on her mother, Rachel Kempson Lynn Redgrave |
#3900, aired 2001-07-13 | PRESENTING THE PLAYWRIGHTS $400: Called the most significant British dramatist since Shakespeare, this Irish-born author wrote 50 stage plays (George Bernard) Shaw |
#3009, aired 1997-10-02 | NOVELIST-PLAYWRIGHTS $800: This British romance novelist was in her 20s when she wrote the 1925 play "Blood Money" Barbara Cartland |
#2477, aired 1995-05-16 | PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS $1000: This British poet published his poetic drama "Becket" in 1884, the same year he was elevated to the peerage Alfred, Lord Tennyson |
#2392, aired 1995-01-17 | PLAYWRIGHTS $400: William Gillette also wrote Civil War plays but was best known for his 1899 play about this British detective Sherlock Holmes |
#1549, aired 1991-05-02 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Last name of the British twin brothers who between them,
wrote "Amadeus" and "Sleuth" Shaffer |
#1286, aired 1990-03-19 | PLAYWRIGHTS $600: In the 1950s he was the first of the British playwrights known as "Angry Young Men" John Osborne ("Look Back In Anger") |
#758, aired 1987-12-16 | PLAYWRIGHTS $800: Though he was a British subject when he wrote "The Cocktail Party", he was born in Missouri Thomas Stearns (T.S.) Eliot |