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dramatist

[ US /ˈdɹɑmətɪst/ ]
[ UK /dɹˈæmɐtˌɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. someone who writes plays

How To Use dramatist In A Sentence

  • I gave my ideas on "playwriting" again at Philadelphia, and was told just before I began that there were several dramatists in the room, including the author of Madame Butterfly. Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
  • But everyone said, “Come on, you are such a melodramatist.” 2007 March : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation - Part 2
  • Verse such as this would permit of every rhythmical variation known in English prosody, and through the appeal of its rhythm would offer the dramatist opportunities for emotional effect that prose would not allow him; but at the same time it could be spoken with entire naturalness by actors as ultra-modern as Mme. Nazimova. The Theory of the Theatre
  • Yet One Touch of Venus shows that the experiences of working with radical dramatists, including socialist playwright Bertolt Brecht in The Threepenny Opera, clearly left their mark on him.
  • The dramatists also tend to get the office politics wrong, creating tensions and torrid love affairs between pathologists and police where there are none.
  • That focus led one critic to sneer that the dramatist "followed mid-century middle-class man into middle age using the middle-class conventions of the boulevardier to do it". In praise of... Simon Gray
  • And considering that the Guthrie's new complex on the river will present more opportunities to do new work, we can, without undue optimism, expect to see an increase in distaff dramatists in the Guthrie's future.
  • Thou art the only true melodramatist of the stage and off the stage! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841
  • Only a natural dramatist could have written a scene as good as that.
  • The situation instinctively reminds one of the play An Enemy of the People by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen.
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