15 Verbs to Use for the Word playwright
" The open resentment in his tone angered the playwright and caused him to wonder if their long-deferred clash was destined to occur this morning.
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.
The method of attacking the crisis in the middle or towards the end is really a device for relaxing, in some measure, the narrow bounds of theatrical representation, and enabling the playwright to deal with a larger segment of human experience.
There is, or ought to be, a close interdependence between action, character and dialogue, which forbids a playwright to tie his hands very far in advance.
Alexandrian precept, handed on by Horace, gave to the five act division a purely arbitrary sanction, which induced playwrights to mask the natural rhythm of their themes beneath this artificial one.
I do not know whether his example has influenced certain English playwrights, or whether they arrived independently at the same austere principle, by sheer force of individual genius.
Occasionally Shakespeare made over an older play, as in Henry VI, Comedy of Errors, and Hamlet; and in one instance at least he seized upon an incident of shipwreck in which London was greatly interested, and made out of it the original and fascinating play of The Tempest, in much the same spirit which leads our modern playwrights when they dramatize a popular novel or a war story to catch the public fancy.
It has always been a reproach against Henry Irving in some mouths that he neglected the modern English playwright; and of course the reproach included me to a certain extent.
Because of the easy accessibility of Dion Boucicault's "The Octoroon; or, Life in Louisiana," it was thought best to omit this Irish-American playwright, whose jovial prolixity enriched the American stage of the '60's and '70's.
The author may object that such criticism would end in paralysing the playwright, and that, if men always profited by the lessons of the stage, the world would long ago have become so wise that there would be no more room in it for drama, which lives on human folly.
In the choice of Mr. Augustus Thomas's "In Mizzoura""The Witching Hour" having so often been used in dramatic collectionsthe Editor believes he has represented this playwright at a time when his dramas were most racy and native.
" Such attacks had their weight and prepared the way far the more moral sentimental comedies of Richard Steele and succeeding playwrights.
But that here of all places, and before this tomb of all tombs, the God of the Mahommedans should be invokedthis was life turning playwright with a vengeance.
We have to use playwrights, however irritating they are," remarked the stage manager.
Another motive against which it is perhaps not quite superfluous to warn the aspiring playwright is the "voix du sang."