question: St. John Emile Clavering Hankin was a playwright in the same league as which Irish author of more than 60 plays?
answer: George Bernard Shaw
context: Title: John Courtney (playwright)
  Passage: John Courtney (1804–1865) was a Victorian playwright, dramatic actor and comedian.  Courtney was the stage name of John Fuller.  He wrote over 60 plays, including the popular dramas "Time Tries All" first performed in 1848, which attained great success around the UK and also in the USA from the 1850s to at least the 1880s, and "Eustice Baudin" (1854), which attained even greater success in the USA through to at least the 1890s.  He wrote the first theatrical adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" (1848) which was rediscovered in 2009.  One of his early acting performances was in 1829 as Colonel Freelove in "The Day after the Wedding" or "A Wife's First Lesson" adapted by Maria Theresa Kemble from the original French comedy.
  Title: Jack Kaiser
  Passage: John Warren Kaiser (born October 6, 1926) is Athletics Director Emeritus at St. John's University in Queens, NY.  He was an American baseball player, college coach, and administrator.  As a player, he helped St. John's to the 1949 College World Series.  After a brief minor league career, he became head coach at St. John's and led the now-named St. John's Red Storm baseball team to eleven postseason appearances, including three trips to the College World Series in his 18-year career as head coach.  He then became athletic director at St. John's, and was instrumental in the establishment of the Big East Conference.  He was inducted into the ABCA Hall of Fame in 1979, and the Big East Conference Baseball Tournament Most Outstanding Player Award is named in his honor.  Jack Kaiser Stadium, home baseball field of the Red Storm, is also named in his honor.
  Title: St. John's Fog Devils
  Passage: The St. John's Fog Devils were a junior ice hockey team in the Eastern Division of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) from 2005 to 2008.  They were based in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, and played out of Mile One Centre.  The QMJHL expanded to St. John's to fill the void created by the departure of the American Hockey League's St. John's Maple Leafs, when the Maple Leafs moved to Toronto, Ontario, to become the Toronto Marlies after the 2004–05 season.
  Title: St. John's Curling Club
  Passage: The St. John's Curling Club (officially the St. John's Curling Association) is a curling club in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.  The club plays at the RE/MAX Centre in Central St. John's, on Mayor Ave. It is the largest curling club in the province.
  Title: George Bernard Shaw
  Passage: George Bernard Shaw ( ; 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.  He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as "Man and Superman" (1902), "Pygmalion" (1912)" and Saint Joan" (1923).  With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  Title: St. John Emile Clavering Hankin
  Passage: St. John Emile Clavering Hankin (25 September 1869 – 15 June 1909) was a British Edwardian essayist and playwright.  Along with George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, and Harley Granville-Barker, he was a major exponent of Edwardian "New Drama".  Despite success as a playwright he died by his own hand, and his work was largely neglected until the 1990s.
  Title: Robert Dunlap (playwright)
  Passage: Robert Dunlap (1766-1839) was an American artist, historian and playwright.  He was born in Perth Amboy, New Jersey on 1 February 1766.  In his lifetime he wrote more than 60 plays.
  Title: Alison Quigan
  Passage: Alison Marie Quigan {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} is a New Zealand actor, director and playwright.  Quigan was the artistic director of Centrepoint Theatre in Palmerston North for 18 years from 1986 to 2004 where she directed over 60 plays.  From 2004 until 2011 Quigan appeared on the New Zealand television series "Shortland Street".  In an interview with Michele Hewitson from "The New Zealand Herald", Quigan is described as 'a little-known power house of influence'.  In the 2001 Birthday Honours, Quigan received a Queen's Service Medal for "public services to theatre".  "Alison trained at Auckland’s Theatre Corporate Actors School in 1978.  She has worked as an actor in Auckland, Palmerston North and Christchurch and has acted in or directed more than 130 plays.  Alison has written 12 plays, independently and with writing partners Ross Gumbley and Lucy Schmidt.  Alison has two grown children and her daughter, actor Sarah Graham, made her Centrepoint Theatre debut in the 2009 production of Alison’s play Ladies for Hire. "She has been Performing Arts Manager at Mangere Arts Centre - Nga Tohu O Aotearoa since 2013.
  Title: Stage Society
  Passage: The Incorporated Stage Society, commonly known as the Stage Society, was an English theatre society with limited membership which mounted private Sunday performances of new and experimental plays, mainly at the Royal Court Theatre (whose Vedrenne-Barker management is said to have originated in the Society's work) but also at other London West End venues.  Founded in 1899 "to regenerate the Drama", it followed the Independent Theatre Society in this activity.  Its plays particularly included the first performances of plays that had been banned for public performance by the Lord Chamberlain.  George Bernard Shaw, Harley Granville Barker, St. John Hankin, Gilbert Murray and Clifford Bax were all involved with the company.
  Title: S. L. Puram Sadanandan
  Passage: S. L. Puram Sadanandan (1928–2005) was a famous playwright and film scriptwriter of Kerala, India.  He was a trailblazer of the theatre movement in Kerala.  He was born on April 15, 1928, in S.L.Puram in Alappuzha district to P.Narayanan and Karthyayani.  He started writing plays while studying in school and associated himself with the trade union activities in his village.  He became a strong sympathizer of the Indian Communist Party witnessing the hardships of the poor workers around him and had close contacts with Communist leaders like R.Sugathan.  He took part in the Punnapra-Vayalar uprising and was arrested and imprisoned and could not pursue his formal studies further .  However, he withdrew himself from active politics following the split in the Communist party.  He was founder of "Kalpana Theatres" and "Suryasoma Theatres" at S.L. Puram.  He has written more than 60 plays.  His first drama, "Kudiyirakku", was staged when he was only 16 years old.  He entered the filmworld by writing the dialogues for the film Sreekovil in 1962.  He had written script for famous Malayalam film of the 1960s, "Chemmeen".  He wrote scripts for more than 135 films and many of them won state and national awards.  In 1965 he got the national award for the best screen play for the film "Agniputhri".  He died on September 16, 2005.  He was survived by his wife Omana Sadanandan and two sons, Jayasurya (who directed the films "Speed Track" and "Angel John") and Jayasoma.
citations: George Bernard Shaw St. John Emile Clavering Hankin