Charles Marowitz is an American

United States

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 critic

Critic

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, theatre director, and playwright

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 who has been a regular columnist on Swans Commentary

Swans (magazine)

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—a cultural-political bi-weekly—since 2004 ("Biography", Marowitz Theatre; "Commentary", Swans.com). He is perhaps best known for being "a close collaborator with Peter Brook at the Royal Shakespeare Company

Royal Shakespeare Company

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" and for founding and directing The Open Space Theatre, both in London

London

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 ("Biography").

He is also the co-founder of Encore Magazine, published between 1954 and 1965, and co-editor of The Encore Reader: A Chronicle of the New Drama (1965). He has been a regular contributor to publications such as The New York Times

The New York Times

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, The Times

The Times

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(London), TheaterWeek

TheaterWeek

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, and American Theatre and was the lead critic on the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

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until its cessation ("Biography").

He is also the author of Murdering Marlowe, about an imagined rivalry between William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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 and Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe

Christopher Marlowe was an English dramatist, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. As the foremost Elizabethan tragedian, next to William Shakespeare, he is known for his blank verse, his overreaching protagonists, and his mysterious death.A warrant was issued for Marlowe's arrest on 18 May...

, which was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Media Awards

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 of 2002 ("Biography"), and of the 1987 Broadway play Sherlock's Last Case starring Frank Langella

Frank Langella

-Early life:Langella, an Italian American, was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, the son of Angelina and Frank A. Langella Sr., a business executive who was the president of the Bayonne Barrel and Drum Company. Langella attended Washington Elementary School and Bayonne High School in Bayonne...

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His free translations of Shakespeare have been collected in The Marowitz Shakespeare.

Selected bibliography

• Marowitz, Charles, ed. and trans. The Marowitz Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Measure for Measure. 1990. ISBN 9780714526515 (13).
• –––, Tom Milne, and Owen Hale, eds. The Encore Reader: A Chronice of the New Drama. London: Methuen, 1965. Reissued as New Theatre Voices of the Fifties and Sixties. London: Eyre Methuen, 1981.

External links

• "Biography: Charles Marowitz" – at Marowitz Theatre.
• Charles Marowitz at Internet Broadway Database
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• "Commentary: Charles Marowitz" – Contributor page at Swans.com.
• Marowitz Theatre – Home page of Marowitz's official commercial website. Sections include "Biography", "Books", "Plays", directorial projects, and other publications by himself and others.