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synonym (synonym of playwright)

  • (noun.person)
    dramatist
    someone who writes plays (noun.person)
     

hypernym (playwright IS A KIND OF .... relation)

  • someone who writes plays (noun.person)
    author, writer
    writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) (noun.person)
     

instance hyponym (.... IS A KIND OF playwright relation (represent specific [usually real-world] instances of something))

  • (noun.person)
    aeschylus
    Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    albee, edward albee, edward franklin albeen
    United States dramatist (1928-) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    anderson, maxwell anderson
    United States dramatist (1888-1959) (noun.person)
     
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    anouilh, jean anouilh
    French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    aristophanes
    an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    barrie, j. m. barrie, james barrie, james matthew barrie, sir james matthew barrie
    Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937) (noun.person)
     
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    beaumont, francis beaumont
    English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    beckett, samuel beckett
    a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the theater of the absurd (1906-1989) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    bertolt brecht, brecht
    German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    calderon, calderon de la barca, pedro calderon de la barca
    Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    capek, karel capek
    Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    cervantes, cervantes saavedra, miguel de cervantes, miguel de cervantes saavedra
    Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    anton chekhov, anton chekov, anton pavlovich chekhov, anton pavlovich chekov, chekhov, chekov
    Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    congreve, william congreve
    English playwright remembered for his comedies (1670-1729) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    corneille, pierre corneille
    French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    coward, noel coward, sir noel pierce coward
    English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    crouse, russel crouse
    United States playwright (1893-1966) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    cyrano de bergerac, savinien cyrano de bergerac
    a French soldier and dramatist remembered chiefly for fighting many duels (often over the size of his nose); was immortalized in 1897 in a play by Edm more.. a French soldier and dramatist remembered chiefly for fighting many duels (often over the size of his nose); was immortalized in 1897 in a play by Edmond Rostand (1619-1655) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    decker, dekker, thomas decker, thomas dekker
    English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    dryden, john dryden
    the outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    eliot, t. s. eliot, thomas stearns eliot
    British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    euripides
    one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    fletcher, john fletcher
    prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    christopher fry, fry
    English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    athol fugard, fugard
    South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    frederico garcia lorca, garcia lorca, lorca
    Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    genet, jean genet
    French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    andre gide, andre paul guillaume gide, gide
    French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    giraudoux, hippolyte jean giraudoux, jean giraudoux
    French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    goethe, johann wolfgang von goethe
    German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    carlo goldoni, goldoni
    prolific Italian dramatist (1707-1793) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    granville-barker, harley granville-barker
    English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    hart, moss hart
    United States playwright who collaborated with George S. Kaufman (1904-1961) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    havel, vaclav havel
    Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the more.. Czech dramatist and statesman whose plays opposed totalitarianism and who served as president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 to 1992 and president of the Czech Republic since 1993 (born in 1936) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    christian friedrich hebbel, friedrich hebbel, hebbel
    German dramatist (1813-1863) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    hellman, lillian hellman
    United States playwright; her plays were often indictments of injustice (1905-1984) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    hugo, victor hugo, victor-marie hugo
    French poet and novelist and dramatist; leader of the romantic movement in France (1802-1885) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    henrik ibsen, henrik johan ibsen, ibsen
    realistic Norwegian author who wrote plays on social and political themes (1828-1906) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    inge, william inge
    United States playwright (1913-1973) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    eugene ionesco, ionesco
    French dramatist (born in Romania) who was a leading exponent of the theater of the absurd (1912-1994) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    ben jonson, benjamin jonson, jonson
    English dramatist and poet who was the first real poet laureate of England (1572-1637) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    george s. kaufman, george simon kaufman, kaufman
    United States playwright who collaborated with many other writers including Moss Hart (1889-1961) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    bernd heinrich wilhelm von kleist, heinrich von kleist, kleist
    German dramatist whose works concern people torn between reason and emotion (1777-1811) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    kid, kyd, thomas kid, thomas kyd
    English dramatist (1558-1594) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    gotthold ephraim lessing, lessing
    German playwright and leader of the Enlightenment (1729-1781) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    howard lindsay, lindsay
    United States playwright who collaborated with Russel Crouse on several musicals (1889-1931) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    clare booth luce, luce
    United States playwright and public official (1902-1987) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    count maurice maeterlinck, maeterlinck
    Belgian playwright (1862-1949) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    david mamet, mamet
    United States playwright (born in 1947) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    christopher marlowe, marlowe
    English poet and playwright who introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression; was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl (1564-1593) (noun.person)
     
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    john marstan, marstan
    English playwright (1575-1634) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    menander
    comic dramatist of ancient Greece (342-292 BC) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    middleton, thomas middleton
    English playwright and pamphleteer (1570-1627) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    arthur miller, miller
    United States playwright (1915-2005) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    jean-baptiste poquelin, moliere
    French author of sophisticated comedies (1622-1673) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    ferenc molnar, molnar
    Hungarian playwright (1878-1952) (noun.person)
     
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    o'casey, sean o'casey
    Irish playwright (1880-1964) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    clifford odets, odets
    United States playwright (1906-1963) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    eugene gladstone o'neill, eugene o'neill, o'neill
    United States playwright (1888-1953) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    john james osborne, john osborne, osborne
    English playwright (1929-1994) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    harold pinter, pinter
    English dramatist whose plays are characterized by silences and the use of inaction (born in 1930) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    luigi pirandello, pirandello
    Italian novelist and playwright (1867-1936) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    george dibdin pitt, george dibdin-pitt, george pitt, pitt
    a British playwright who created the fictional character Sweeney Todd (1799-1855) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    plautus, titus maccius plautus
    comic dramatist of ancient Rome (253?-184 BC) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    jean baptiste racine, jean racine, racine
    French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    rattigan, sir terence mervyn rattigan, terence rattigan
    British playwright (1911-1977) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    elmer leopold rice, elmer reizenstein, elmer rice, rice
    United States playwright (1892-1967) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    esme stuart lennox robinson, lennox robinson, robinson
    Irish playwright and theater manager in Dublin (1886-1958) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    edmond rostand, rostand
    French dramatist and poet whose play immortalized Cyrano de Bergerac (1868-1918) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    jean-paul sartre, sartre
    French writer and existentialist philosopher (1905-1980) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    augustin eugene scribe, scribe
    French playwright (1791-1861) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    lucius annaeus seneca, seneca
    Roman statesman and philosopher who was an advisor to Nero; his nine extant tragedies are modeled on Greek tragedies (circa 4 BC - 65 AD) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    bard of avon, shakespeare, shakspere, william shakespeare, william shakspere
    English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    g. b. shaw, george bernard shaw, shaw
    British playwright (born in Ireland); founder of the Fabian Society (1856-1950) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    sam shepard, shepard
    United States author of surrealistic allegorical plays (born in 1943) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    richard brinsley sheridan, sheridan
    Irish playwright remembered for his satirical comedies of manners (1751-1816) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    robert emmet sherwood, sherwood
    United States playwright (1896-1955) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    marvin neil simon, neil simon, simon
    United States playwright noted for light comedies (born in 1927) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    sophocles
    one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece (496-406 BC) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    sir tom stoppard, stoppard, thomas straussler, tom stoppard
    British dramatist (born in Czechoslovakia in 1937) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    august strindberg, johan august strindberg, strindberg
    Swedish dramatist and novelist (1849-1912) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    edmund john millington synge, j. m. synge, john millington synge, synge
    Irish poet and playwright whose plays are based on rural Irish life (1871-1909) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    publius terentius afer, terence
    dramatist of ancient Rome (born in Greece) whose comedies were based on works by Menander (190?-159 BC) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    gabriel tellez, tirso de molina
    Spanish dramatist who wrote the first dramatic treatment of the legend of Don Juan (1571-1648) (noun.person)
     
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    peter alexander ustinov, sir peter ustinov, ustinov
    British actor and playwright (1921-2004) (noun.person)
     
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    lope de vega, lope felix de vega carpio, vega
    prolific Spanish playwright (1562-1635) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    john webster, webster
    English playwright (1580-1625) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde, oscar wilde, wilde
    Irish writer and wit (1854-1900) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    thornton niven wilder, thornton wilder, wilder
    United States writer and dramatist (1897-1975) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    tennessee williams, thomas lanier williams, williams
    United States playwright (1911-1983) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    william wycherley, wycherley
    English playwright noted for his humorous and satirical plays (1640-1716) (noun.person)
     
  • (noun.person)
    w. b. yeats, william butler yeats, yeats
    Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939) (noun.person)
     

derivation (.... is derived from playwright)

  • (noun.communication)
    drama
    the literary genre of works intended for the theater (noun.communication)
     
  • (noun.communication)
    drama, dramatic play, play
    a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage (noun.communication)
     
  • (verb.creation)
    adopt, dramatise, dramatize
    put into dramatic form (verb.creation)
     
synonym hypernym instance hyponym derivation dramatist author writer aeschylus albee anderson maxwell anderson anouilh jean anouilh drama dramatic play play adopt dramatise dramatize
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. dramatist . author, writer . aeschylus . albee, edward albee, edward franklin albeen . anderson, maxwell anderson . anouilh, jean anouilh . aristophanes . barrie, j. m. barrie, james barrie, james matthew barrie, sir james matthew barrie . beaumont, francis beaumont . beckett, samuel beckett . bertolt brecht, brecht . calderon, calderon de la barca, pedro calderon de la barca . capek, karel capek . cervantes, cervantes saavedra, miguel de cervantes, miguel de cervantes saavedra . anton chekhov, anton chekov, anton pavlovich chekhov, anton pavlovich chekov, chekhov, chekov . congreve, william congreve . corneille, pierre corneille . coward, noel coward, sir noel pierce coward . crouse, russel crouse . cyrano de bergerac, savinien cyrano de bergerac . decker, dekker, thomas decker, thomas dekker . dryden, john dryden . eliot, t. s. eliot, thomas stearns eliot . euripides . fletcher, john fletcher . christopher fry, fry . athol fugard, fugard . frederico garcia lorca, garcia lorca, lorca . genet, jean genet . andre gide, andre paul guillaume gide, gide . giraudoux, hippolyte jean giraudoux, jean giraudoux . goethe, johann wolfgang von goethe . carlo goldoni, goldoni . granville-barker, harley granville-barker . hart, moss hart . havel, vaclav havel . christian friedrich hebbel, friedrich hebbel, hebbel . hellman, lillian hellman . hugo, victor hugo, victor-marie hugo . henrik ibsen, henrik johan ibsen, ibsen . inge, william inge . eugene ionesco, ionesco . ben jonson, benjamin jonson, jonson . george s. kaufman, george simon kaufman, kaufman . bernd heinrich wilhelm von kleist, heinrich von kleist, kleist . kid, kyd, thomas kid, thomas kyd . gotthold ephraim lessing, lessing . howard lindsay, lindsay . clare booth luce, luce . count maurice maeterlinck, maeterlinck . david mamet, mamet . christopher marlowe, marlowe . john marstan, marstan . menander . middleton, thomas middleton . arthur miller, miller . jean-baptiste poquelin, moliere . ferenc molnar, molnar . o'casey, sean o'casey . clifford odets, odets . eugene gladstone o'neill, eugene o'neill, o'neill . john james osborne, john osborne, osborne . harold pinter, pinter . luigi pirandello, pirandello . george dibdin pitt, george dibdin-pitt, george pitt, pitt . plautus, titus maccius plautus . jean baptiste racine, jean racine, racine . rattigan, sir terence mervyn rattigan, terence rattigan . elmer leopold rice, elmer reizenstein, elmer rice, rice . esme stuart lennox robinson, lennox robinson, robinson . edmond rostand, rostand . jean-paul sartre, sartre . augustin eugene scribe, scribe . lucius annaeus seneca, seneca . bard of avon, shakespeare, shakspere, william shakespeare, william shakspere . g. b. shaw, george bernard shaw, shaw . sam shepard, shepard . richard brinsley sheridan, sheridan . robert emmet sherwood, sherwood . marvin neil simon, neil simon, simon . sophocles . sir tom stoppard, stoppard, thomas straussler, tom stoppard . august strindberg, johan august strindberg, strindberg . edmund john millington synge, j. m. synge, john millington synge, synge . publius terentius afer, terence . gabriel tellez, tirso de molina . peter alexander ustinov, sir peter ustinov, ustinov . lope de vega, lope felix de vega carpio, vega . john webster, webster . oscar fingal o'flahertie wills wilde, oscar wilde, wilde . thornton niven wilder, thornton wilder, wilder . tennessee williams, thomas lanier williams, williams . william wycherley, wycherley . w. b. yeats, william butler yeats, yeats . drama . drama, dramatic play, play . adopt, dramatise, dramatize


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