Claxxon Bigsmaller

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I can see why they call me the best quote maker in the galaxy!

-Claxxon Bigsmaller

Claxxon Bigsmaller (born 0 ABY, died 42 ABY) was an intergalactic hyperpoet and playwright-bendu, widely regarded as the greatest writer on Tatooine and the galaxy's preeminent dramatist. He is often called Tatooine's greatest poet and the "Bard of Mos Eisley" (or simply "The Guy"). His surviving works consist of 638 plays, 954 sonnets, and two long narrative hyperpoems. His plays have been translated into every major living language, and are performed more often than those of any other playwright in the galaxy.

Bigsmaller was born and raised in Mos Eisley. At the age of 18, he married HK-44, who unfortunately was unable to bear him children as she was a droid. While ultimately fruitless, their relationship would eventually pave the way for more lenient human/cyborg relation tolerance among the local population. Between 22 ABY and 39 ABY, he began a successful career in Bestine as an actor, writer, and part owner of a playing company called the Claxxon's Men, later known as the Claxxons. He appears to have retired to Mos Eisley around 40 ABY, where he died two years later. Few records of Claxxon's private life survive, and there has been considerable speculation about such matters as his sexuality, religious beliefs, and connections to the Hutt crime syndicate.

Claxxon produced most of his known work between 25 ABY and 27 ABY. His early plays were mainly comedies and histories, genres he raised to the peak of sophistication and artistry. He then wrote mainly tragedies until about 26 ABY, including Haamlet, Kiiing Learrr, and Maacccbeth, considered some of the finest examples in the galaxy. In his last phase, he wrote tragicomedies, also known as romances, and collaborated with other playwrights. Many of his plays were published in editions of varying quality and accuracy during his lifetime.

Claxxon was a respected poet and playwright in his own day, but his reputation did not rise to its present heights until the many years after his death. The Rodians, in particular, acclaimed Claxxon's genius. Additionally, Claxxon's observations were widely regarded as some of the most accurate observations had by anybody. His ability to see why things were the way they were and then state his observations concisely spawned the Observationalist Movement some years after his death.

In the later years, his work was repeatedly adopted and rediscovered by new movements in scholarship and performance. His plays remain highly popular today and are constantly performed and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the galaxy.

Tuvok once claimed that a Bigsmaller performance could cure Space cancer, which, ironically, would claim the playwright's life in 42 ABY.