After World War II, Thomas became a literary commentator for BBC Radio which was followed by his now-famous Under Milkwood (also published in 1954), "a play for voices which was originally written for radio broadcast" and centered on "the lives of the inhabitants of Llareggub, a small, Welsh seaside town." Following the success of Under Milkwood, Thomas toured the United States and became extremely popular with audiences, yet in his personal life, he was experiencing much self-doubt and a sense of worthlessness, due in part to his on-going struggle with alcoholism which inevitably contributed to his death in New York City on November 9, 1953 (Bengtsson, "Biography of Dylan Thomas," Internet)
" Some of the literary classics that he read as a young boy included Scottish ballads, William Blake's Songs of Innocence and the "incomprehensible magical majesty and nonsense of Shakespeare." Some of the noted authors included Thomas De Quincey (Confessions of an English Opium-Eater), Christopher Marlowe (Tragical History of Doctor Faustus), Edgar Allan Poe, William Butler Yeats and DH Lawrence (Maud 2-3)
Dylan is also speaking to his father in this poem, for he tells him "Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light." Thematically, this poem is a reflection of Dylan Thomas's great genius, for it illustrates man's "struggle from darkness to light;" Dylan "uncovered the darkness in us that we should otherwise not have known and brought us to a light we should not otherwise have seen" (Olson 89)
, 2003) Ancient Roman Theater The work of Beacham (1991) reports that knowledge of early Rome "is very incomplete…most of our information comes from Livy, who is writing in the age of Augustus." (Beacham, 1991) Augustus is reported to record "that the Romans had their first experience of the theater in the middle of the fourth century BC when they witnessed performances by an invited troupe of Etruscans
Miller had an older brother and they lived in a "splendid apartment in comfort and security high above Central Park." (Gottfried, 2004) Miller's father was prosperous due to his owning Miltex Coat and Suit factory and showroom with in excess of 800 employees
It is reported that Moliere in contrast to Aristole and Cicero had "exposed the most unbearable defects the most monstrous vices…he invited his audience to laugh at a hypocrite and an evil lord." (Hollier, 1994) It is reported that with Moliere "the comic no longer had any limits; it became something universal, a point-of-view on the entire human conditions
" (Reynolds, 2011) Biography of August Wilson The work of Nadel (1993) states that August Wilson is one of the "most significant playwrights in the history of American Theater and one of the most important contemporary African-American writers." (Nadel, 1993) Wilson began writing plays in the 1970s as well as in the latter part of the 1970s Wilson is reported to have "embarked on an ambitious project to write a cycle of plays about African-American life, one set in each decade of the twentieth century
" Commedia dell 'Arte Commedia dell'arte involves a single person retaining their name, costume and essential basic characteristics in successive plays, but is made to appear in diverse circumstances and in diverse relationships with companions." (Nicoll, 1987) It is reported that in Commedia dell-arte that the individual's "essential personality remains the same, the impression we get is of an individual revealed in different ways through the varying connections he has with his fellows and through the particular positions in life which have been accorded him
The work of Reynolds (2011) states that Whitman described himself as a poet "attracting [the nation], body and soul to himself, hanging on it neck with incomparable love,/plunging his seminal muscle into its merits and demerits." (Reynolds, 2011) Whitman wrote in his 1955 'Leaves of Grass' preface that the proof of a poet "is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it
In short, he was a slob." (Tindall, 1962) The work of Tindall states that Thomas "burst upon London with his marvels…in 1933" and dazzled his readers
The publicly known Tennessee Williams was "largely his own creation." (Tischler, 2000) Williams was a rebel against his upbringing in a Puritan home and was an "intensely serious writer who saw his creativity as a gift and writing as a vocation
Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in Stockholm, Sweden in 1995. (Vendler, 2012, paraphrased) Biography of Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams in Mississippi
I bring up this lineage to say Black History is not used so much to highlight the history of Black people, but to reflect on the struggle for freedom." (Younger, 2013) Ancient Greek Theater The work of Green, et al
A lot of the imagery we have seen "in every stanza Thomas gives his reader some image of death and darkness." (Farrow, 22)
It was included in his anthology In Country Sleep in 1952. Dylan Thomas' father was a militant man during the course of his life, and "when in his eighties, he became blind and weak, his son was disturbed seeing his father become "soft" or "gentle" (Grimes, 2-3)