dramatist

dramatist
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. playwright, scriptwriter, scenario writer, scenarist, screenwriter, dramaturge, tragedian, scripter*, play doctor*; see also author 2 , writer .
Major dramatists include --- Great BRitain: Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare, William Congreve, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oliver Goldsmith, James Barrie, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Sean O'Casey, John Millington Synge, Tom Stoppard, Noel Coward, Harold Pinter, John Osborne; United States: Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, William Inge, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Sam Shepard, Neil Simon; Greece: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes; France: Moli?re, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Edmond Rostand, Jean Anouilh, Jean Giraudoux, Eug?ne Ionesco, Jean Gen?t, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre; Germany: Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, Bertolt Brecht, Gerhardt Hauptmann; other: Luigi Pirandello, Maxim GOrky, Anton Chekov, Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, Friedrich D?rrenmatt, Calder?n, Lope de Vega, Federico Garcia Lorca, Samuel Beckett, Karel ?apek, Monzaemon Chikamatsu.

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