Playwright Sentence Examples

Powerful as a comic playwright, he was not a poet in the proper sense of the term.

Our knowledge of the life of the celebrated Latin playwright, Publius Terentius Afer, is derived chiefly from a fragment of the lost work of Suetonius, De viris illustribus, preserved in the commentary of Donatus, who adds a few words of his own.

Her husband distinguished himself both as actor and playwright, and his Parisien (1682) gave Mme Guerin one of her greatest successes.

A later playwright, James Hurdis, made More's career the subject of a play in 1792.

Thomas Corneille himself, who to his undoubted talents united wonderful facility, untiring industry, and (gift valuable above all others to the playwright) an extraordinary knack of hitting the public fancy, died, notwithstanding his simple tastes, "as poor as Job."

His touch is heavy, and these novels show no dramatic power, which accounts for his failure as a playwright, but their influence was as great as their followers were many, and they still find readers.

Gradually the Kabuki developed the features of a genuine theatre; the actor and the playwright were discriminated, and, the performances taking the form of domestic drama (Wagoto and Sewamono) or historical drama (Aragoto or Jidaimono), actors of perpetual fame sprang up, as Sakata TOjOrO and Ichikawa DanjinrO (1660-1704).

On his return he seems to have been for two years a regular playwright to the actors at the Hotel de Bourgogne.

Eger was the birthplace of the novelist and playwright Braun von Braunthal (1802-1866).

A TV film of quality, written by a top contemporary playwright.

The radio playwright can use sound as the film producer uses light.

Turk feels an affinity with the dour playwright's style.

A word must be said of George Sand as a playwright.

Neither play is as spontaneous or inspired as Die Rduber had been; but both mark a steady advance in characterization and in the technical art of the playwright.

Where the playwright has written prose, I have left, as it is often used to indicate feigned madness and status.

Pig in the Middle is a play by award winning playwright Judy Upton.

For 2005 Eclipse Theater has commissioned award-winning playwright Roy Williams to create a new play.

Greg is a fading middle-aged actor whose family life has long since become stale; Sally is a struggling young playwright.

Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams has been commissioned to create a new drama for Eclipse Theater.

More than simply a stand-up, (" A one-man special effect " The Guardian) Rhys is also a prolific comedy playwright.

Aesop's famous fables are interwoven with music, rhyme and laughter in a magical new version by award-winning children's playwright Mike Kenny.

In Seville he made acquaintance with Garcia Gutierrez, who is reported to have encouraged his dramatic ambitions and to have given him the benefit of his own experience as a playwright.

This determination to be a working playwright, pushed on in the face of critical hostility and popular indifference, is a very curious trait in the character of Tennyson.

The events of 1789 and the startling success of his younger brother, Marie-Joseph, as political playwright and pamphleteer, concentrated all his thoughts upon France.

Natalie Maine's son is named Beckett Finn in honor of the Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.

In London, Isla Fisher toured as part of the musical Summer Holiday, as well as a production of Australian playwright Louis Nowra's Cosi.

Playwright, partygirl, general Girl-About-Town, Tremaine would in the US be diagnosed with depression and suitably medicated.

The books were profusely illustrated with wood-cuts and chromoxylographs from pictures of the ukiyoe masters, who, like the playwright, the actor and the romancer, ministered to the pleasure of the man in the street.

Which famous playwright was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl?

So said top twentieth century playwright Samuel Beckett (sort of ).