Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who writes plays; a playwright.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays; a playwright.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
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- noun
playwright
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who writes plays
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Examples
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Yet the Washington-based dramatist is one of the country's leading comic playwrights, thanks to such fat and loopy hits as the musical "Crazy for You" and the evergreen "Lend Me a Tenor," the mashup of opera and mistaken identity that was revived on Broadway last year (and is nearly always playing somewhere).
Ken Ludwig returns to Signature Theatre with golf farce 'A Fox in the Fairway' Nelson Pressley 2010
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At this point the faint suggestion you might be a self dramatist is announced sotto voce by the clarinet and the motif gathers to full orchestral grandeur as you proceed.
Archive 2007-11-25 Newmania 2007
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At this point the faint suggestion you might be a self dramatist is announced sotto voce by the clarinet and the motif gathers to full orchestral grandeur as you proceed.
Human beings of which they know nothing... Newmania 2007
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It has been said that 'the business of the dramatist is to keep himself out of sight and to let nothing appear but his characters'.
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So long as we have human hearts and await human destinies, so long as we are alive to the pathos, the dignity, the comedy of human life, so long shall we continue to rank above the philosopher, higher than the politician, the great artist, be he called dramatist or historian, who makes us conscious of the divine movement of events, and of our fathers who were before us.
Obiter Dicta Augustine Birrell 1891
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Tom Stoppard is often characterized as a dramatist who mixes intimidating cleverness with extravagant showmanship, but in
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Tom Stoppard is often characterized as a dramatist who mixes intimidating cleverness with extravagant showmanship, but in
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Tom Stoppard is often characterized as a dramatist who mixes intimidating cleverness with extravagant showmanship, but in
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Tom Stoppard is often characterized as a dramatist who mixes intimidating cleverness with extravagant showmanship, but in
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The essential requirement is to remember that Lyly the dramatist is the same man as Lyly the euphuist, and that his audience was always a company of courtiers, with Queen Elizabeth in their midst, infatuated with admiration for the new phraseology and mode of thought known as Euphuism.
The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
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