Which preposition to use with dramatists

of Occurrences 58%

Such anachronisms, however gross, are common to all the dramatists of that day.

in Occurrences 11%

When Mr. Cumberland talked to him of the Greek fragments which are so well illustrated in The Observer, and of the Greek dramatists in general, he candidly acknowledged his insufficiency in that particular branch of Greek literature.

for Occurrences 6%

They pick up a few worn-out phrases of sea-life, which have long since left the forecastle, and which have been bandied about from one set of landsmen to another, have been dropped by sham-sailors begging on fictitious wooden-legs, then by small sea-novelists, handed to smaller dramatists for the Wapping class of theatres, to be by them abandoned to the smallest writers of pirate and privateer tales for the Sunday press.

as Occurrences 4%

Go-as-you-please composition may be possible for the novelist, perhaps even for the writer of a one-act play, a mere piece of dialogue; but in a dramatic structure of any considerable extent, proportion, balance, and the interconnection of parts are so essential that a scenario is almost as indispensable to a dramatist as a set of plans to an architect.

with Occurrences 4%

At the beginning of the Preface, he has marked out the character of our great dramatist with such a power of criticism, as there was perhaps no example of in the English language.

of Occurrences 3%

2. Macaulay's Essay, The Comic Dramatists of the Restoration.

TO Occurrences 2%

* DRAMATISTS TO THE RESCUE.

than Occurrences 1%

The Chorus thus renders more substantial service to the modern dramatist than to the old poetand for this reason, that it transforms the commonplace actual world into the old poetical one; that it enables him to dispense with all that is repugnant to poetry, and conducts him back to the most simple, original, and genuine motives of action.

under Occurrences 1%

Of Webster's personal history we know nothing except that he was well known as a dramatist under James I.

like Occurrences 1%

It is true that a dramatist like Mr. Bernard Shaw may, at his own risk and peril, set forth to give us a new reading of Caesar or of Napoleon, which may or may not be dramatically acceptable.

at Occurrences 1%

Of the elder dramatists at any rate, Aeschylus and Sophocles, one may even say that it was their purposehowever imperfectly achievedto "justify the ways of God to man."

before Occurrences 1%

It is, I think, admirable; and presents the old Spanish dramatist before the English reader in a very attractive light.

by Occurrences 1%

He has earned his place among the greatest of our dramatists by his two plays, the theme of which matched his sombre genius and the sombreness of the season in which it flowered.

into Occurrences 1%

but she was so loud in his praise for covering her gross imitators with confusion, that Bachaumont and Chapelle, two of her intimate friends, ventured to introduce the young dramatist into her society.

among Occurrences 1%

THE LIFE OF FRANZ GRILLPARZER BY WILLIAM GUILD HOWARD, A.M. Assistant Professor of German, Harvard University Franz Grillparzer is the greatest poet and dramatist among the Austrians.

on Occurrences 1%

The onslaughts of the dramatists on the Puritans, always implacable enemies of the theatre, became more virulent and envenomed.

Which preposition to use with  dramatists