playwright

1. Someone who writes plays (synset 110050002)
   is a type of: author, writer - writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
   specific instances:

   • aeschylus - Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)
   • 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, j. m. barrie, james barrie, james matthew barrie, sir james matthew barrie - Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)
   • 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; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989)
   • bertolt brecht, 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, cervantes saavedra, miguel de cervantes, miguel de cervantes saavedra - Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)
   • anton chekhov, anton chekov, anton pavlovich chekhov, anton pavlovich chekov, chekhov, 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); was immortalized in 1897 in a play by Edmond Rostand (1619-1655)
   • decker, dekker, thomas decker, thomas dekker - English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632)
   • dryden, john dryden - the 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; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
   • 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)
   • christopher fry, fry - English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)
   • athol fugard, fugard - South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932)
   • frederico garcia lorca, 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)
   • andre gide, andre paul guillaume gide, gide - French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951)
   • giraudoux, hippolyte jean giraudoux, 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)
   • carlo goldoni, 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)
   • christian friedrich hebbel, friedrich hebbel, hebbel - German dramatist (1813-1863)
   • hellman, lillian hellman - United States playwright; her plays were often indictments of injustice (1905-1984)
   • hugo, victor hugo, victor-marie hugo - French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885)
   • henrik ibsen, henrik johan ibsen, ibsen - realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906)
   • inge, william inge - United States playwright (1913-1973)
   • eugene ionesco, ionesco - French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994)
   • ben jonson, benjamin jonson, jonson - English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637)
   • george s. kaufman, george simon kaufman, kaufman - United States playwright who collaborated with many other writers including Moss Hart (1889-1961)
   • bernd heinrich wilhelm von kleist, heinrich von kleist, kleist - German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811)
   • kid, kyd, thomas kid, thomas kyd - English dramatist (1558-1594)
   • gotthold ephraim lessing, lessing - German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781)
   • howard lindsay, lindsay - United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931)
   • clare booth luce, luce - United States playwright and public official (1902-1987)
   • count maurice maeterlinck, maeterlinck - Belgian playwright (1862-1949)
   • david mamet, mamet - United States playwright (born in 1947)
   • christopher marlowe, marlowe - English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593)
   • john marstan, marstan - English playwright (1575-1634)
   • menander - comic dramatist of ancient Greece (342-292 BC)
   • middleton, thomas middleton - English playwright and pamphleteer (1570-1627)
   • arthur miller, miller - United States playwright (1915-2005)
   • jean-baptiste poquelin, moliere - French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673)
   • ferenc molnar, molnar - Hungarian playwright (1878-1952)
   • o'casey, sean o'casey - Irish playwright (1880-1964)
   • clifford odets, odets - United States playwright (1906-1963)
   • eugene gladstone o'neill, eugene o'neill, o'neill - United States playwright (1888-1953)
   • john james osborne, john osborne, osborne - English playwright (1929-1994)
   • harold pinter, pinter - English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930)
   • luigi pirandello, pirandello - Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936)
   • george dibdin pitt, george dibdin-pitt, george pitt, 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)
   • jean baptiste racine, jean racine, racine - French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699)
   • rattigan, sir terence mervyn rattigan, terence rattigan - British playwright (1911-1977)
   • elmer leopold rice, elmer reizenstein, elmer rice, rice - United States playwright (1892-1967)
   • esme stuart lennox robinson, lennox robinson, robinson - Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958)
   • edmond rostand, rostand - French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918)
   • jean-paul sartre, sartre - French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980)
   • augustin eugene scribe, scribe - French playwright (1791-1861)
   • lucius annaeus seneca, seneca - Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD)
   • bard of avon, shakespeare, shakspere, william shakespeare, william shakspere - English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
   • g. b. shaw, george bernard shaw, shaw - British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950)
   • sam shepard, shepard - United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943)
   • richard brinsley sheridan, sheridan - Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816)
   • robert emmet sherwood, sherwood - United States playwright (1896-1955)
   • marvin neil simon, neil simon, simon - United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927)
   • sophocles - one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC)
   • sir tom stoppard, stoppard, thomas straussler, tom stoppard - British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937)
   • august strindberg, johan august strindberg, strindberg - Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912)
   • edmund john millington synge, j. m. synge, john millington synge, synge - Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909)
   • publius terentius afer, terence - dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC)
   • gabriel tellez, tirso de molina - Spanish dramatist who wrote the first dramatic treatment of the legend of Don Juan (1571-1648)
   • peter alexander ustinov, sir peter ustinov, ustinov - British actor and playwright (1921-2004)
   • lope de vega, lope felix de vega carpio, vega - prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635)
   • john webster, webster - English playwright (1580-1625)
   • oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde, oscar wilde, wilde - Irish writer and wit (1854-1900)
   • thornton niven wilder, thornton wilder, wilder - United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975)
   • tennessee williams, thomas lanier williams, williams - United States playwright (1911-1983)
   • william wycherley, wycherley - English playwright noted for his humorous and satirical plays (1640-1716)
   • w. b. yeats, william butler yeats, yeats - Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)
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