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Charles Marowitz (26 January 1934 – 2 May 2014)〔(Obituary: Charles Marowitz ), ''Daily Telegraph'', 8 May 2014〕 was an American critic, theatre director, and playwright, regular columnist on Swans Commentary.〔(Bio on swans.com )〕 He was perhaps best known for being a "close collaborator" with Peter Brook〔(Albert Hunt, Geoffrey Reeves, ''Peter Brook'' ), Cambridge University Press, 1995, p.51〕 at the Royal Shakespeare Company and for founding and directing The Open Space Theatre, both in London. He is also the co-founder of ''Encore'' magazine which was published between 1954 and 1965, and co-editor of ''The'' Encore ''Reader: A Chronicle of the New Drama'' (1965). He was a regular contributor to publications such as ''The New York Times'', ''The Times'' (London), ''TheaterWeek'', and ''American Theatre'' and was the lead critic on the ''Los Angeles Herald-Examiner'' until it ceased publication. He was additionally the author of ''Murdering Marlowe'', which imagines a rivalry between William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe, which was selected as a finalist for the GLAAD Media Awards of 2002, and of the 1987 Broadway play ''Sherlock's Last Case'' with Frank Langella in the lead role.〔Frank Rich, ("Stage: Langella In 'Sherlock's Last.' " ), ''The New York Times'', August 21, 1987, accessed October 11, 2007.〕 His free adaptations of Shakespeare have been collected in ''The Marowitz Shakespeare''. He died of complications from Parkinson's disease in 2014 at the age of 80.〔Elaine Woo ("Charles Marowitz, playwright, director and critic, dies at 80" ), ''Los Angeles Times'', 6 May 2014〕 ==Selected bibliography== *Marowitz, Charles (1977). ''Artaud at Rodez''. London: Marion Boyars. ISBN 0-7145-2632-0. *Marowitz, Charles, ed. and trans. (2000). ''The Marowitz Shakespeare: Adaptions and Collages of Hamlet, MacBeth, the Taming of the Shrew, Measure for Measure, and the Merchant of Venice''. London: Marion Boyars. ISBN 978-0-7145-2651-5. *–––, Tom Milne, and Owen Hale, eds. (1981). ''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. *Trussler,Simon (2014). Charles Marowitz in London: Twenty-Five Years Hard: Marowitz in the Sixties. New Theatre Quarterly, 30:3, p. 203–206 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「Charles Marowitz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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