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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.
Pages in category "English dramatists and playwrights" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 551 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
George Tabori (1914–2007, Hungary/England/United States/Germany) in English and German; Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941, India) in English; Habib Tanvir (1923–2009, India) in Urdu; Jean Tardieu (1903–1995, France) Henry Taylor (1800–1886, England) Bernard J. Taylor (living, South Africa/United States) Samuel Taylor (1912–2000, United ...
In English (as was the analogous case in many other European languages), the word play or game (translating the Anglo-Saxon pleġan or Latin ludus) was the standard term for dramas until William Shakespeare's time—just as its creator was a play-maker rather than a dramatist and the building was a play-house rather than a theatre. [3]
Simple English; Slovenščina ... He is regarded as "the second most important English dramatist, ... Jonson, for instance, used "artificer" as a synonym for "artist ...
Pages in category "16th-century English dramatists and playwrights" The following 46 pages are in this category, out of 46 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Depending on culture, the differences between the meaning of "Dramatist" and the meaning of "Playwright" are perceived otherwise. In light of this, please do not use the "Playwrights" and "Dramatists" subcategories of this category anymore, but move articles from either "Dramatists" or "Playwrights" to this category instead.
List of English playwrights; List of Scottish playwrights This page was last edited on 5 February 2024, at 10:16 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...