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dramatist Definition

drama·tist (dramə tist, drämə-)

noun

a playwright

Etymology: see drama

dramatist Synonyms

dramatist

n.

playwright, scriptwriter, scenario writer, scenarist, screenwriter, dramaturge, tragedian, scripter*, play doctor*; see also author 2, writer.

Major dramatists include --- Great Britain: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, William Congreve, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, James Barrie, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, John Millington Synge, Tom Stoppard, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, John Osborne; United States: Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, William Inge, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon; Greece: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes; France: Molière, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Edmond Rostand, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Eugène Ionesco, Jean Genêt, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre; Germany: Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Bertolt Brecht, Gerhardt Hauptmann; other: Luigi Pirandello, Maxim Gorky, Anton Chekov, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Calderón, Lope de Vega, Federico Garcia Lorca, Samuel Beckett, Karel Čapek, Monzaemon Chikamatsu.

dramatist Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • inspire: Those questions include: ⢠What inspires the dramatist to write a play.
  • produce: Produced audio dramatist of both fan and professional productions.
  • include: In addition to academic teaching in literature and criticism, you will be taught by creative writing practitioners including dramatists, poets and novelists.
  • lead: Heidi Stephenson and Natasha Langridge Twenty leading contemporary dramatists discuss their work from the perspective of being both writers and women.

Converse of subject

  • write: The first reference to the boots came in a play written by the English dramatist William Moncrieff, in 1817.

Adjective modifier

  • Elizabethan: Elizabethan dramatists generally assumed that the Capitol was the site of the Senate House.
  • Greek: People today are simply not aware of the magnificent stories on which the Greek dramatists drew and which they enhanced.
  • Irish: Ed Thomas in British and Irish Dramatists since WWII ( ed.
  • comic: Molière remains France's best-known comic dramatist, but was also a distinguished actor, director and the leader of several theatrical companies.
  • contemporary: In addition the list includes the most comprehensive collection of plays by classic and contemporary dramatists.
  • English: Back to top Renaissance drama The first great English dramatist is Marlowe.

Noun used with modifier

  • radio: In which the radio dramatist can work on the principle that anything which can be described can be imagined.
  • television: Lynda La Plante, the television dramatist, even has an option on one of his books, Manchester Blue.
  • TV: In the US, TV dramatists are a more serious breed altogether.
  • woman: In its 28th year, the prize recognizes the work of outstanding women dramatists.
  • century: Did you know, for example, that eighteenth century dramatists routinely changed his endings because they were too tragic?
  • living: In About Pinter, Mark Batty provides a critical study of the work of one of our most successful living dramatists.

Possessives

  • child: David Wood, the acclaimed children's dramatist, draws upon the most entertaining and instructive of the twenty-four books for this popular adaptation.

Preposition: of

  • century: This is a rare chance to see this work by one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th Century.
  • period: This comedy, written by one of the foremost dramatists of the period, was the first play produced at the Kenton.

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