Noun
The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAlfred 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