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Recent Examples of dramatist
Seneca, the Roman philosopher and dramatist (and court counsellor), argued that punishment should be proportionate to the crime, and resisted the notion that every offense required execution.
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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 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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Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 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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No playwright can duplicate the poignancy of that.—
David L. Coddon,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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The play concerns an average guy named Berenger (a character name that Ionesco used in other works, and who seems to share some background details with the playwright) who sees the people around him acting strangely and spouting odd sentiments.—
Christopher Arnott,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
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Contributing editor Sarah Khan is an award-winning travel writer based in New York City.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Mar. 2026
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Tess Arnold, a 34-year-old travel writer from Seattle, had been caught in Dubai, but managed to get to London on Tuesday and hopes to return home a day later.—
Stefanie Dazio,
Chicago Tribune,
3 Mar. 2026
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As a result, the studio and production company tapped Kevin Williamson, the original screenwriter of the Scream movies, to write and direct a new Scream 7.—
Nick Romano,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Feb. 2026
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To adapt the play, Preminger hired the great screenwriter and novelist Graham Greene, who Preminger felt would add meaning and emotional investment to the project given his Catholicism.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
27 Feb. 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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But for all those American fans who plan to watch the Cortina Olympics, be forewarned: Hollywood’s best scriptwriters are sitting at their typewriters, pounding out the bones of a sports movie about Lindsey Vonn.—
Frederick Dreier,
Outside,
23 Dec. 2025
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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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