What's the difference between playwright and writer?

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.

Writer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk.
  • (n.) One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer of novels.
  • (n.) A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the late East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Her novels have an enduring and universal appeal and she is recognised as one of the greatest writers in English literature.
  • (2) "The best artists, the best writers, the best directors are coming from movies and into television.
  • (3) The award for nonfiction went to New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos for his book on modern China, Age of Ambition .
  • (4) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (5) Jeanne Haffner is a historian and writer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  • (6) An untiring advocate of the joys and merits of his adopted home county, Bradbury figured Norfolk as a place of writing parsons, farmer-writers and sensitive poets: John Skelton, Rider Haggard, John Middleton Murry, William Cowper, George MacBeth, George Szirtes.
  • (7) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (8) Louis CK is exploding a few myths about one of pop culture's most hallowed spaces, the sitcom writers' room.
  • (9) From a study bearing upon 26 patients suffering from a cerebral circulatory insufficiency induced by a stenosis or a thrombosis, the writers analyse the part played by Hyperbare Oxygen in the neurologic evolution.
  • (10) "What this proves is that the way Bowie engineered his comeback was a stroke of genius," said music writer Simon Price.
  • (11) 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.
  • (12) The writer John Lanchester concedes that democracies will always need spies, but reading the Snowden documents persuaded him that piecing together habits of thought from internet searches takes things far beyond conventional spying: “Google doesn’t just know you’re gay before you tell your mum; it knows you’re gay before you do.
  • (13) For a writer barely out of his teens when it was published, in 1946, the book was an unusual achievement.
  • (14) Curriculum writers and instructors of preservice elementary teachers could be more effective if they were aware of this group's beliefs about school-related AIDS issues.
  • (15) He added: "There will be all sorts of science fiction writers who will give their own opinions on what this means, but we don't want to enter that game."
  • (16) "Obviously [writers in translation] have a disadvantage and there's no sense pretending they don't, of being read in translation," said Gekoski.
  • (17) Most of what we know about it comes from the accounts given by the Roman writers Polybius (c200-118BC) and Livy (59BC-AD17).
  • (18) Do you feel you were thought of at one stage as a political writer, at a very early stage?
  • (19) • +33 2 98 50 10 12, hotel-les-sables-blancs.com , doubles from €105 room only Hôtel Ty Mad, Douarnenez Hôtel Ty Mad In the 1920s the little beach and fishing village of Douarnenez was a favourite haunt of the likes of Pablo Picasso and writer and artist Max Jacob.
  • (20) This affected the outcome of the study so that the differences of the two groups of patients were not as significant as perceived by the writer.