(n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other signatories include John Dugard, a South African jurist and former UN special rapporteur in the occupied territories; Luisa Morgantini, former president of the European parliament; Cynthia McKinney, a former member of the US Congress; Ronnie Kasrils, a South African former cabinet minister; and the dramatist Caryl Churchill.
(2) At this time the dramatist begins with the reception of the medieval mystery plays, Calderon and the greek-oriental myths.
(3) Where German officials have feared to tread, dramatists have rushed in.
(4) Despite a generation gap, the two dramatists were colleagues and friends in Osborne's later years.
(5) Although this zinger owes its origins to the fact that Thatcher's gag-writer, Sir Ronald Millar, happened to be a dramatist of the Fry generation, he could expect that the reference would be understood by a significant proportion of the press and the electorate.
(6) Hytner called Hodge "a wonderful dramatist even though he comes from the world of film and TV".
(7) This is a moment: one that demands the attention of musicians, writers, dramatists, journalists – and the millions of people in England who surely feel a deep dismay about what is happening.
(8) At our best we use it to spur on creativity, at our worst we launch our toys out of the pram and become drama queens instead of dramatists, citing conspiracy theories and the powers that be for destroying our work.
(9) AL Kennedy: 'Salmond has the warm potato head of a man who is Scottish and – we hope – no threat' Dundee-born AL Kennedy, 45, is an ordained minister, standup and dramatist, as well as an award-winning fiction writer.
(10) Dramatists as successful as John Osborne and Simon Gray would regularly complain that you had to be queer if you wanted to get on in the English theatre.
(11) Today, dramatists must not only invent and entice and storytell to the best of their abilities; they must take account of the net's accidental ability utterly to re-engineer social interactions, and its many laws of unforeseen consequences.
(12) By 1942, just after his 21st birthday, the new dramatist had two plays running in the West End, House Of Secrets and his comedy, Blow Your Trumpet, although the latter flopped.
(13) The critic announced in the Sunday Times, "A new dramatist has arrived."
(14) "The greatest musical dramatists – Monteverdi, Purcell, Rameau, Mozart post-Idomeneo, Berlioz, Verdi post-Don Carlo and Janácˇek – are the ones whose compositions sag least.
(15) Aristotle said that the dramatist had to be able to visualise the action and enter into the characters' emotions.
(16) From the age of 61 he cohabited for some years with Peter Jones, a dramatist.
(17) The power of this literature is that it conveys so poignantly the horror, the shocking loss of life, and the anger and frustration of the poets, novelists and dramatists.
(18) Dickens was a dramatist manqué badly in need of a good editor.
(19) Study of our greatest dramatist has been enhanced, with children required to read two whole Shakespeare plays between the ages of 11 and 14 rather than just part of one, as before.
(20) As the 1980s progressed, more and more dramatists explored the psychology and consequences of Thatcherism.
Playwright
Definition:
(n.) A maker or adapter of plays.
Example Sentences:
(1) Limits are a relief, because they concentrate the drama and free the writer from the torture of choice, as Aristotle knew when he advised playwrights to preserve "the unities" by telling one story in one place over a single day.
(2) But it was also a portrait of an England charged with secrets - and, as Michael Billington put it, the work of an accomplished playwright who understood the English curse of 'emotional evasion.'
(3) In his articles, he took on the theatre establishment, blaming it for siding with the actors and not the playwright.
(4) Numbness sets in.” Philip Hope-Wallace on Look Back in Anger “I must be the only playwright this century to have been pursued up a London street by an angry mob … There was an inescapable tension in the house.
(5) Fine, Miranda (the playwright-lyricist-composer also sings, acts and dances the lead role of Alexander Hamilton, making him a ... let’s see, carry the one ... sextuple threat) will give you George Washington.
(6) Although such allegations have been made before in numerous news outlets, and in a controversial one-man show by playwright Mike Daisey, this time they have struck a chord.
(7) The barrister, playwright and author Sir John Mortimer , who has died aged 85, was a man for all the seasons that touched his Chilterns garden, where he lived as profusely as he wrote, in a spirit of unjudgmental generosity.
(8) He is joined by Jack Driscoll, the playwright who journeyed with Denham 25 years previously and was played by Adrien Brody in Jackson's film.
(9) A playwright and actor has launched legal action against British Airways and London City airport, alleging that they irreparably damaged her £25,000 wheelchair, made her daily life more difficult and caused problems for her business.
(10) (2) The central theme of "passion" in Equus would seem to relate to the vicissitudes of infantile omnipotence, as noted in both the content of the play and the process of playwrighting.
(11) Havel was a renowned playwright and essayist who, after the crushing of the Prague spring in 1968, was drawn increasingly into the political struggle against the Czechoslovakian communist dictatorship, which he called Absurdistan.
(12) When he died, [playwright] Patrick Marber said to me: we've got to use everything we learned."
(13) One man, a playwright, came in and gave a lesson on Harold Pinter.
(14) Indeed, then-leftwing writers such as John Dos Passos , John Howard Lawson and Mike Gold , who had their plays produced in Greenwich Village, were dubbed by the critic Alexander Woollcott “the revolting playwrights”.
(15) One rainy day last autumn the playwright and actor Patrick Marber went home to his wife and said: "I have some bad news."
(16) If you say, ‘This is Kate Tempest and she’s a poet-rapper-playwright,’ it sounds confusing and ridiculous and a bit naff.
(17) He was a keen visual artist, a storyteller, playwright, novelist, news reporter, radio DJ, a verse and prose writer and an enthusiastic walker.
(18) He has suggested that the Nobel laureate Dario Fo take Napolitano's place as head of state, a suggestion the playwright was quoted on Wednesday as dismissing as "an absurd but lovely" idea.
(19) · George Furth, playwright and actor; born December 14 1932; died August 11 2008
(20) But Havel, the playwright and the dissident, could not be silenced.