Irving Fiske
Overview
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker. He is associated with Quarry Hill Creative Center
Quarry Hill Creative Center
Quarry Hill Creative Center, in Rochester, Vermont, is Vermont's oldest alternative living group or community.-History:On April 10, 1946, Irving Fiske , a playwright, inventor, freelance writer, and speaker, and his wife, Barbara Hall Fiske, , an artist and one...
, the Fiske family property, in Rochester, Vermont
Rochester, Vermont
Rochester is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 1,171 at the 2000 census. Rochester is home to the Quarry Hill Creative Center...
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Fiske, a 1928 graduate of Cornell University
Cornell University
Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...
, had worked for the Federal Writer's Project of the Works Progress Administration
Works Progress Administration
The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads, and operated large arts, drama, media, and literacy projects...
(WPA) during the 1930s, had written for H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore", he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the...
’s American Mercury, had corresponded with George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
, had written an article now considered a classic, "Bernard Shaw’s Debt to William Blake", and had translated Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
into Modern English
Modern English
Modern English is the form of the English language spoken since the Great Vowel Shift in England, completed in roughly 1550.Despite some differences in vocabulary, texts from the early 17th century, such as the works of William Shakespeare and the King James Bible, are considered to be in Modern...
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Quotations
Adults must remember that they look like insane giants to children.
Children are ambassadors from another dimension and should be treated with diplomatic courtesy.
Hitting a child is worse than MURDER!
The symbol is the enemy of the reality, and the reality is ever one's true guide, true friend, true companion, and true self.