Do we say playwright or playwrite

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Samuel Rowley was at once an actor and a playwright.

Of Samuel Rowley as a playwright we hear nothing before December, 1601, when he was writing for Henslowe a scriptural play on the subject of Judas in company with his fellow-actor William Borneor Birde, for the name is variously written (Henslowe's Diary, p. 205).

The playwright does not say so, Mansfield does not say so, but this is the lesson:

That is the function of the artist-playwright.

Why didn't I think of it?" "Mr. Frohman would, no doubt, wish to choose the playwright, in case you didn't make the dramatic version yourself.

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

"He's a young playwright.

But Jarvis"here her eyes filled with tears"you've no idea how hard it is to be a playwright!

" "I'll come as wife of the playwright, or co-author.

Mr. Frohman has told me something of you and of your work, and I shall be very happy if my story gives you your first opportunity to succeed as a playwright.

The double responsibility as author and playwright shrank to second place in comparison with the fact that this night she was to tell Jarvis of her love for himhear him speak his love for her.

The Playwright and the actress.

THE PLAYWRIGHT (behind the scenes).

ACT III Room in a peasant's house The PLAYWRIGHT.

Not in the least. PLAYWRIGHT (falls down before him).

I have spoken to the playwright myself and he has assured me of it.

Yes, your playwright is just the fellow.

PLAYWRIGHT (rushing forward).

PLAYWRIGHT (on the other side of the stage with a bow).

The playwright is heard quarreling behind the scenes and then enters.] PLAYWR.

An empty echo mocks mehe has deserted me, his playwright.

[The pauses are always filled by stamping in the pit and the playwright delivers this monologue in recitative, so that the effect is rather melodramatic.] PEACEMAKER (behind the scenes).

The Autos of Calderon were got ready by perhaps the most accomplished playwright that ever lived, to amuse and stimulate a thronging southern population.

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

Perhaps a man with more acute literary conscience than Taylor would not have condescended to "write up" Shakespeare; perhaps a man of more independence and ambition would not have wasted his really fine accomplishment as a playwright for ever on adaptations.

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Do we say   playwright   or  playwrite