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Entries: Comedy - Appears in list of "some of the more prominent authors of English theatrical comedy" of the late nieteenth through twenty-first centuries. Drama - Listed as an "active producer of comedy" in the twentieth century. Edwardian Age - "J.M. Barrie and Lord Dunsany kept romance and whimsy alive on the stage." Kailyard School - "J.M. Barrie was the best-known member of the school, which was popular toward the close of the nineteenth century." Little Theater Movement - "In England, the movement began with the opening of the Independent Theatre (1891). [...] Barrie [...] were to some degree products of the movement." One-Act Play - "That the form was adopted by playwrights of high ability (J.M. Barrie...) furthered its development." Scottish Literature - `"...and although the native dialects have been employed by such writers of regional literature as J.M. Barrie (see Kailyard School), in general, literary writers of Scottish birth have been regarded, since 1800, as English."