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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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Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes, New York author Alejandro Heredia and Cuban American writer Alisha Fernandez Miranda will join in on the discussion.—
Carlos De Loera,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Apr. 2026
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The show is set to mark the launch of a new indie production company, There & Then, from Iranian playwright Nassim Soleimanpour and director Omar Elerian.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Apr. 2026
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Associated Press writer Jill Lawless in London contributed to this report.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
15 Apr. 2026
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Lewinsky survived a White House scandal to become an activist, writer, producer, public speaker, contributing editor to Vanity Fair and now podcaster.—
Chris Gardner,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Apr. 2026
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Now, however, the octogenarian screenwriter is back in the news.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
15 Apr. 2026
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What’s interesting is that Odenkirk, 63, is credited, along with screenwriter Derek Kolstad, with the story’s premise.—
Stephen Schaefer,
Boston Herald,
14 Apr. 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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