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A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets.
David Hare at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2018. David Hare is an English playwright, screenwriter, and director. He is known for his theatrical works, including his acclaimed plays Pravda (1985), The Absence of War (1993), Skylight (1995), Amy's View (1997), and The Judas Kiss (1998). He is also known for his works on film and television.
This is a list of plays other than those written by William Shakespeare (covered by the above section) that have been adapted into feature films.The title of the play is followed by its first public performance, its playwright, the title of the film adapted from the play, the year of the film and the film's director.
Robert Davenport (dramatist) Molly Davies; Martin Day (writer) Mrs Henry de la Pasture; Andy de la Tour; Consuelo De Reyes; John Delap; John Dennis (dramatist) Keith Dewhurst; Charles Dibdin the younger; Thomas John Dibdin; Robert Dodsley; Berlie Doherty; Louise Doughty; Claire Dowie; James Drake (physician) Stuart Draper; William Price Drury ...
David Rippon Hare [citation needed] was born on 5 June 1947 [1] in St Leonards-on-Sea, Hastings, Sussex, and was raised – first in a flat, then in a semi-detached house – in Bexhill-on-Sea, [2] [3] the son of Agnes Cockburn (née Gilmour) and Clifford Theodore Rippon Hare, a passenger ship's purser in the Merchant Navy.
Webster has received a reputation for being the Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatist with the most unsparingly dark vision of human nature. Webster's tragedies present a horrific vision of mankind; in his poem "Whispers of Immortality," T. S. Eliot memorably says that Webster always "saw the skull beneath the skin". While Webster's drama was ...
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The dramatist may be inspired by a dominant idea or theme in a novel, and produce a work which enshrines that idea but has its own set of characters and incidents. [W]hether the work is a faithful dramatization of the novel or whether it is remote and everything but theme, the playwright will enjoy the copyright protection that is given to an ...