English > playwright: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | someone who writes plays. |
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| Synonym | dramatist |
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| Instances | Aeschylus | Greek tragedian |
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| Albee, Edward Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen | United States dramatist (1928-) |
| Anderson, Maxwell Anderson | United States dramatist (1888-1959) |
| Anouilh, Jean Anouilh | French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987) |
| Aristophanes | An ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC) |
| Barrie, James Barrie, J. M. Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, Sir James Matthew Barrie | Scottish dramatist and novelist |
| Beaumont, Francis Beaumont | English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616) |
| Beckett, Samuel Beckett | A playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France |
| Brecht, Bertolt Brecht | German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956) |
| Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) |
| Capek, Karel Capek | Czech writer who introduced the word 'robot' into the English language (1890-1938) |
| Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra | Spanish writer best remembered for 'Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616) |
| Chekhov, Chekov, Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekov | Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904) |
| Congreve, William Congreve | English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729) |
| Corneille, Pierre Corneille | French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684) |
| Coward, Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward | English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) |
| Crouse, Russel Crouse | United States playwright (1893-1966) |
| Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien Cyrano de Bergerac | A French soldier and dramatist remembered chiefly for fighting many duels (often over the size of his nose) |
| Dekker, Decker, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Decker | English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632) |
| Dryden, John Dryden | The outstanding / outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700) |
| Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot | British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature |
| Euripides | One of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC) |
| Fletcher, John Fletcher | prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625) |
| Fry, Christopher Fry | English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907) |
| Fugard, Athol Fugard | South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932) |
| Garcia Lorca, Frederico Garcia Lorca, Lorca | Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936) |
| Genet, Jean Genet | French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986) |
| Gide, Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide | French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951) |
| Giraudoux, Jean Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux | French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944) |
| Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832) |
| Goldoni, Carlo Goldoni | prolific Italian dramatist (1707-1793) |
| Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker | English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946) |
| Hart, Moss Hart | United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961) |
| Havel, Vaclav Havel | Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936) |
| Hebbel, Friedrich Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Hebbel | German dramatist (1813-1863) |
| Hellman, Lillian Hellman | United States playwright |
| Hugo, Victor Hugo, Victor-Marie Hugo | French poet and novelist and dramatist |
| Ibsen, Henrik Ibsen, Henrik Johan Ibsen | realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906) |
| Inge, William Inge | United States playwright (1913-1973) |
| Ionesco, Eugene Ionesco | French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994) |
| Jonson, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jonson | English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637) |
| Kaufman, George S. Kaufman, George Simon Kaufman | United States playwright who collaborated with many other writers including Moss Hart (1889-1961) |
| Kleist, Heinrich von Kleist, Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist | German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811) |
| Kyd, Kid, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Kid | English dramatist (1558-1594) |
| Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781) |
| Lindsay, Howard Lindsay | United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931) |
| Luce, Clare Booth Luce | United States playwright and public official (1902-1987) |
| Maeterlinck, Count Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgian playwright (1862-1949) |
| Mamet, David Mamet | United States playwright (born in 1947) |
| Marlowe, Christopher Marlowe | English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form / form of dramatic expression |
| Marstan, John Marstan | English playwright (1575-1634) |
| Menander | comic dramatist of ancient Greece (342-292 BC) |
| Middleton, Thomas Middleton | English playwright and pamphleteer (1570-1627) |
| Miller, Arthur Miller | United States playwright (1915-2005) |
| Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin | French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673) |
| Molnar, Ferenc Molnar | Hungarian playwright (1878-1952) |
| O'Casey, Sean O'Casey | Irish playwright (1880-1964) |
| O'Neill, Eugene O'Neill, Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | United States playwright (1888-1953) |
| Odets, Clifford Odets | United States playwright (1906-1963) |
| Osborne, John Osborne, John James Osborne | English playwright (1929-1994) |
| Pinter, Harold Pinter | English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930) |
| Pirandello, Luigi Pirandello | Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936) |
| Pitt, George Pitt, George Dibdin Pitt, George Dibdin-Pitt | A British playwright who created the fictional character Sweeney Todd (1799-1855) |
| Plautus, Titus Maccius Plautus | comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC) |
| Racine, Jean Racine, Jean Baptiste Racine | French advocate of Jansenism |
| Rattigan, Terence Rattigan, Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan | British playwright (1911-1977) |
| Rice, Elmer Rice, Elmer Leopold Rice, Elmer Reizenstein | United States playwright (1892-1967) |
| Robinson, Lennox Robinson, Esme Stuart Lennox Robinson | Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958) |
| Rostand, Edmond Rostand | French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918) |
| Sartre, Jean-Paul Sartre | French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980) |
| Scribe, Augustin Eugene Scribe | French playwright (1791-1861) |
| Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero |
| Shakespeare, William Shakespeare, Shakspere, William Shakspere, Bard of Avon | English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616) |
| Shaw, G. B. Shaw, George Bernard Shaw | British playwright (born in Ireland) |
| Shepard, Sam Shepard | United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943) |
| Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816) |
| Sherwood, Robert Emmet Sherwood | United States playwright (1896-1955) |
| Simon, Neil Simon, Marvin Neil Simon | United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927) |
| Sophocles | One of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC) |
| Stoppard, Tom Stoppard, Sir Tom Stoppard, Thomas Straussler | British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937) |
| Strindberg, August Strindberg, Johan August Strindberg | Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912) |
| Synge, J. M. Synge, John Millington Synge, Edmund John Millington Synge | Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909) |
| Terence, Publius Terentius Afer | dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC) |
| Tirso de Molina, Gabriel Tellez | Spanish dramatist who wrote the first dramatic treatment of the legend of Don Juan (1571-1648) |
| Ustinov, Sir Peter Ustinov, Peter Alexander Ustinov | British actor and playwright (1921-2004) |
| Vega, Lope de Vega, Lope Felix de Vega Carpio | prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635) |
| Webster, John Webster | English playwright (1580-1625) |
| Wilde, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde | Irish writer and wit (1854-1900) |
| Wilder, Thornton Wilder, Thornton Niven Wilder | United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) |
| Williams, Tennessee Williams, Thomas Lanier Williams | United States playwright (1911-1983) |
| Wycherley, William Wycherley | English playwright noted for his humorous and satirical plays (1640-1716) |
| Yeats, William Butler Yeats, W. B. Yeats | Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) |
| Broader | writer, author | Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) |
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| Spanish | comediógrafo, dramático, dramaturgo |
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| Catalan | comediógraf, dramàtic, dramaturg |
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