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He is known as the world's most famous playwright and England's greatest dramatist, but even William Shakespeare got writer's block.
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Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.
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Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2026
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
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.
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Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
27 Nov. 2025
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Gerrad Hall,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
The essential New Orleans recipe, named after French dramatist Victorien Sardou in 1908 to celebrate his trip to The Big Easy, is a close cousin to eggs Benedict.
—
Amanda Stanfield,
Southern Living,
10 Jan. 2026
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.
—
Monitor Reviewers,
Christian Science Monitor,
8 Dec. 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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for dramatist
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Use a playwright as company in a room that had previously seemed uninhabitable.
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The Tony-winning playwright, whose works include Take Me Out and The Assembled Parties, died of cancer in 2025 at 67.
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There’s a lot of hard work that goes into being a shopping writer, but there’s a lot of play, too.
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Times staff writer Sonja Sharp contributed to this report.
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But despite some good moments and sharp dialogue in places (Ana Nogueria is the screenwriter), something feels a bit off.
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Sure, there’s a new director (Aaron Sorkin, the screenwriter of the original, is taking over for David Fincher) and a new actor is playing Mark Zuckerberg (Jeremy Strong replaces Jesse Eisenberg, who turned down the project).
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Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.
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Undiluted drama, pure cinema and narratives that even the best scriptwriters in Hollywood would struggle to muster up.
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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.
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.
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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.
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