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Recent Examples of dramatist
This gripping book about the short, daring life of the Elizabethan dramatist Christopher Marlowe makes an eloquent case for his work’s beauty and sly unorthodoxy.
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Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2025
British playwright Tom Stoppard, widely regarded as one of the greatest dramatists of his generation, has died at age 88.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
Shields reunited with Goold – and James Graham – for the BBC/ Left Bank Pictures television adaptation of the dramatist’s National Theatre hit, the Olivier award-winning Dear England, about Gareth Southgate’s revolutionary tenure as England’s men’s team manager.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2025
Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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Monitor Reviewers, Christian Science Monitor, 8 Dec. 2025
British playwright Tom Stoppard, widely regarded as one of the greatest dramatists of his generation, has died at age 88.
—Adeola Adeosun, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 Nov. 2025
Shields reunited with Goold – and James Graham – for the BBC/ Left Bank Pictures television adaptation of the dramatist’s National Theatre hit, the Olivier award-winning Dear England, about Gareth Southgate’s revolutionary tenure as England’s men’s team manager.
—Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 27 Nov. 2025
Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.
—Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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Hartford Stage is using a new adaptation by British playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, which had its world premiere just six months ago in London.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
27 Mar. 2026
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In 1955, 60-year-old Pagnol is an acclaimed playwright and filmmaker when Elle magazine commissions a weekly column about his childhood.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
27 Mar. 2026
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Every tax software review is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of tax software products.—
Brian Sloan,Dan Avery,
CNBC,
24 Mar. 2026
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Nicholas Gallagher — a relatively recent New York University law school graduate and conservative writer whom ProPublica previously identified as a DOGE operative at the General Services Administration — has been involved in conversations about overhauling environmental rules.—
Avi Asher-Schapiro,
ProPublica,
24 Mar. 2026
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Schreck is a playwright and screenwriter based in Brooklyn.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
25 Mar. 2026
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This movie very much has the biting genre sensibility that made Cody a household name — a rare feat for a screenwriter — after her Oscar win for Juno and cult hits like Jennifer’s Body.—
Jada Yuan,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2026
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Suzuki Tsutomu, who served as both scriptwriter and producer, spoke to Variety about why Nippon TV moved early on AI, what happened when the technology surprised the production itself, and how the broadcaster is thinking about the model’s commercial future.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
18 Mar. 2026
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And because the scriptwriters love a good story, the Rams must return to the same field as their penance.—
Jeff Howe,
New York Times,
9 Jan. 2026
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Director Wincer and scenarist Wittliff have created a big-hearted epic that sits tall in the saddle, a vivid video display of cowboy iconography that’s got the Emmy brand all over it, and that thrillingly shows how the West can be magnificently won by Hollywood.—
Miles Beller,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Feb. 2026
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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