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playwright

[ pley-rahyt ]

noun

  1. a writer of plays; dramatist.


playwright

/ ˈ±è±ô±ðɪˌ°ù²¹Éª³Ù /

noun

  1. a person who writes plays
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of playwright1

First recorded in 1680–90; play + wright
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It was helpful to see how playwrights at the top of their game worked, which playwrights don’t usually get to see of other playwrights.

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Before “One Jewish Boy,†a play by Stephen Laughton, even had its premiere in London in 2018, the playwright and the play were besieged by antisemitic trolling and threats.

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Officially, playwright and screenwriter Marco Ramirez began working on the Broadway musical “Buena Vista Social Club†a little more than six years ago.

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No playwright of the modern era has more compassionately — or accurately — dramatized the human consciousness of time, loss and the gap between hope and reality.

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It is important not to forget the "atrocities the British Empire was involved in," a playwright has said as her debut hit play heads to London.

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