dramatists in English

noun

1

a person who writes plays.

First staged in 1968, the play has often been compared to the surreal and absurd works of world-renowned dramatists Harold Pinter and Eugéne Ionesco.

synonyms: playwright, writer, scriptwriter, screenwriter, scenarist, dramaturge

noun

• playwright, writer, scriptwriter, screenwriter, scenarist, dramaturge
• playwright

Use "dramatists" in a sentence

1. 11 Shakespeare towers above all other Elizabethan dramatists.

2. The International Writing Program is open to new and established writers, whether poets, fiction writers, dramatists, or non-fiction writers.

3. One feels in reading them that the writer had studied the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, and that they harmed as well as helped him.

4. 13 Dramatists or actors whose work is maliciously booed or hissed off the stage would sue their tormentors for slander rather than libel.

5. 27 Dramatists or actors whose work is maliciously booed or hissed off the stage would sue their tormentors for slander rather than libel.

6. 3 Dramatists or actors whose work is maliciously booed or hissed off the stage would sue their tormentors for slander rather than libel.

7. Aeschylus, (born 525/524 bc —died 456/455 bc, Gela, Sicily), the first of classical Athens’ great dramatists, who raised the emerging art of tragedy to great heights of poetry and theatrical power.

8. The destroyed articles included memoirs and works of writers and dramatists who made a significant contribution toward the sustenance of the Tamil culture, and those of locally reputed physicians and politicians.

9. Absurdism, and its more specific companion term Theatre of the Absurd, refers to the works of a group of Western European and American dramatists writing and producing plays in the 1950s and early 1960s

10. 2 days ago · Broadway Licensing Acquires Dramatists Play Service By Logan Culwell-Block 03/23/2021 The licensing conglomerate also adds Keenan Scott II's Thoughts of a Colored Man , …

11. EARLY ENGLISH DRAMATISTS--RECENTLY RECOVERED "LOST" TUDOR PLAYS WITH SOME OTHERS VARIOUS He was primed with the letter-accounts; he made her dot her amorous I's and cross her Bawdry T's.

12. Raphael Holinshed, English Chronicler, remembered chiefly because his Chronicles enjoyed great popularity and became a quarry for many Elizabethan dramatists, especially Shakespeare, who found, in the second edition, material for Macbeth, King Lear, Cymbeline, and many of his historical plays.

13. Other articles where Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy is discussed: irrationalism: …is usually assessed as rationalistic—a Dionysian (i.e., instinctive) strain can be discerned in the works of the poet Pindar, in the dramatists, and even in such philosophers as Pythagoras and Empedocles and in Plato

14. Theatre of the Absurd, dramatic work of certain European and American dramatists of the 1950s and early ’60s who agreed with the Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus’s assessment, in his essay ‘The Myth of Sisyphus,’ that the human situation is essentially Absurd, devoid of purpose.

15. It is one of the most popular Japanese plays, ranked with Zeami's Matsukaze, although the vivid action of Chūshingura differs dramatically from Matsukaze During this portion of the Edo period, the major dramatists preferred not to write for the kabuki theater since the kabuki actors frequently departed from the texts to invent parts and aggrandize their own roles; however, Chūshingura was so successful that it was almost immediately adapted for the kabuki theater as well.