A short view of Elizabethan drama together with some account of its principal playwrights and the conditions under which it was produced.

Modern continental playwrights.

Intimately connected with this question is the case of the "deadhead," argued with the zeal that is according to knowledge by that eminent playwright, Mr. HEMMERDE, who knows all about the free-list and its services in "enabling the management to keep the house properly dressed"this refers, of course, to the front of the houseduring the doubtful first weeks of a new play.

Suppose the anonymous playwright had been a lawyer, or a journalist, or a pork-butcher, or a grocer.

Our unknown playwright has guarded himself against this fault; and, steeped as he was to the lips in classical learning, his abstinence must have cost him some trouble.

Evidently he was not a professional playwright.

the comic playwright fills the page.

Concerning labels: "most promising playwright."

The last paragraph reminds us that the accomplished playwright shows his accomplishment quite as much in his recognition and avoidance of the scène à ne pas faire as in his divination of the obligatory scene.

The judicious playwright will often ask himself, "Is it the actual substance of this scene that I require, or only its repercussion?"

He hails from the north of Ireland; but Rutherford Mayne is the best of the Northern playwrights, and his plays, The Drone and The Turn of the Road, are splendid homely county Down comedies.

The obscure playwright is no less impressive than the world-renowned historian.

this pious playwright!

The real Bickerstaffe was a prolific playwright.

A small but instructive example of a difficult effect, such as the prudent playwright will do well to avoid, occurs in the third act of Ibsen's Little Eyolf.

A playwright of my acquaintance, and a very remarkable playwright too, used to scribble the first drafts of his play in little notebooks, which he produced from his pocket whenever he had a moment to spareoften on the top of an omnibus.

It seems probable that the romantic playwrights of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both in England and in Spain, may have adopted a method not unlike that of the drama of improvisation, that is to say, they may have drawn out a scheme of entrances and exits, and then let their characters discourse (on paper) as their fancy prompted.

" "A skilled playwright could take the heart of your story and build up a clever comedy.

With this assurance to fall back upon, she persuaded Jarvis to go to the office of one of the newer managers who seemed to be of an open mind in regard to untried playwrights.

FAVART, CHARLES SIMON, French dramatist, born at Paris, where he became director of the Opéra Comique; was celebrated as a vivacious playwright and composer of operas; during a temporary absence from Paris he established his Comedy Company in the camp of Marshal Saxe during the Flanders campaign; his memoirs and correspondence give a bright picture of theatrical life in Paris during the 18th century (1710-1792).

I am glad they can't read them, or they would have all at once, as J.K. Jerome, the witty playwright, decided he had every disease found in a medical dictionary, except housemaid's knee.

Academic playwrights Accomodate Addition Adorning Adson's new ayres Agamemnon in the play Agrippina Alablaster ( = alabaster) Alchemist, allusion to the play of the A life ( = as my life) Almarado (?)

And with the loss of self-respect, came recklessness of it, and drove him on, as it has jealous men in all ages, to meannesses unspeakable, which have made them for centuries, poor wretches, the butts of worthless playwrights, and the scorn of their fellow-men.

I had never seen him before, but I knew his brother, a brilliant playwright, in a social way.

Dramatic critic and art critic for the Times, he was also editor of Punch and a busy playwright.