dramatist

Noun

Meaning

The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

playwright shakespearean schiller bard Shakespearian author artist poet composer rice journalist reporter penman scribbler critic
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Antonyms

terminator destroyer audience conclusion conservative amateur
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Hypernyms

author writer

Phrases with the word

english dramatist

Examples

Alfred de Vigny remains best known as a dramatist, with his play on the life of the English poet Chatterton (1835) perhaps his best work. Source: Internet

A right royal blockbuster from dramatist Peter Morgan (The Queen, Frost / Nixon). Source: Internet

Barrett (1964) p.30 He appears to have modelled his approach to language on that of Euripides in particular, so much so that the comic dramatist Cratinus labelled him a 'Euripidaristophanist' addicted to hair-splitting niceties. Source: Internet

Critical reception George Orwell said that Arms and the Man was written when Shaw was at the height of his powers as a dramatist. Source: Internet

Dobson and Taylor, 1997, p231 It has had little impact on the Robin Hood tradition but needs mention as the work of a major dramatist. Source: Internet

Despite this, the manuscript tradition of Plautus is poorer than that of any other ancient dramatist, something not helped by the failure of scholia on Plautus to survive. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

dramatise dramatiser dramatism dramatistic dramatistically dramatizable