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John Drinkwater (1 June 1882 – 25 March 1937) was an English poet and dramatist. ==Life and career== Drinkwater was born in Leytonstone, London, and worked as an insurance clerk. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke and others. In 1918 he had his first major success with his play ''Abraham Lincoln''. He followed it with others in a similar vein, including ''Mary Stuart'' and ''Oliver Cromwell''. In 1924, his Lincoln play was adapted for a two-reel short film made by Lee DeForest and J. Searle Dawley featuring Frank McGlynn Sr. as Lincoln, and made in DeForest's Phonofilm sound-on-film process.〔(Lee de Forest and Phonofilm at Virtual Broadway website )〕 He had published poetry since ''The Death of Leander'' in 1906; the first volume of his ''Collected Poems'' was published in 1923. He also compiled anthologies and wrote literary criticism (e.g. ''Swinburne: an estimate'' (1913)), and later became manager of Birmingham Repertory Theatre. He was married to Daisy Kennedy, the ex-wife of Benno Moiseiwitsch. Papers relating to John Drinkwater and collected by his stepdaughter are held at the University of Birmingham Special Collections. John Drinkwater made recordings in Columbia Records' International Educational Society Lecture series. They include Lecture 10 – a lecture on ''The Speaking of Verse'' (Four 78rpm sides, Cat no. D 40018-40019), and Lecture 70 ''John Drinkwater reading his own poems'' (Four 78rpm sides, Cat no. D 40140-40141).〔''Catalogue of Columbia Records, Up to and including Supplement no. 252'' (Columbia Graphophone Company, London September 1933), pp. 371, 374.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Drinkwater (playwright)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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