prosaist

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Noun
  • The feature by Calvo and Ambrossi, who are known popularly as Los Javis, explores LGBT heritage and pays tribute to murdered Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca through the interconnected stories of three men in the three different eras of 1932, 1937 and 2017.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 25 June 2026
  • The effect was probably not present in the English of Chaucer, nor standard in the later speech of Shakespeare, on the basis of the words that these poets think are rhymes.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • Production has wrapped on Ages of the Moon, the feature film adaptation of the play by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 18 June 2026
  • Season 3 of Rivals will be executive-produced by the duo, Olivier Award-winning playwright Laura Wade (The Riot Club) and Felicity Blunt.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 16 June 2026
Noun
  • But despite some good moments and sharp dialogue in places (Ana Nogueria is the screenwriter), something feels a bit off.
    Pete Hammond, Deadline, 24 June 2026
  • 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).
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 17 June 2026
Noun
  • Shanghainese scriptwriter Zhang interwove her personal experience into the script, with more than 50% of the dialogue spoken in the Shanghai dialect.
    Jenny S. Li, Variety, 12 June 2026
  • Undiluted drama, pure cinema and narratives that even the best scriptwriters in Hollywood would struggle to muster up.
    Ben Church, CNN Money, 8 June 2026
Noun
  • The theater was built by songwriter, dramatist and playwright Arthur Hammerstein to honor his father, Oscar Hammerstein I, and opened as Hammerstein’s Theater in 1927.
    Theresa Braine, New York Daily News, 22 May 2026
  • In transcripts of hearings of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), Garber finds an upwelling of voices from the literary past, among them Christopher Marlowe, the revenge dramatist Thomas Kyd, and, from first to last, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Shakespeare.
    Charlie Tyson, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • James Baldwin, a poet, activist and essayist, is one of the most influential figures in American history.
    Jay Stahl, USA Today, 16 June 2026
  • There also lies the influence of Chilean essayist Pedro Lemebel, braided into Delgado Lopera’s narrative of a father, Ignacio; his 12-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Valentina; and his trans mother, Mamadora Eléctrica, inspired by the author’s own trans mother, Adela Vázquez.
    Laura Zornosa, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026
Noun
  • The admiral's swagger, battlefield bravado and desire for revenge will be sung by the bards of Westeros, and serve as a breakthrough showcase for Thorn, a playwright and YouTuber, who came out as a transgender woman in a January 2021 video on her Philosophy Tube channel.
    Bryan Alexander, USA Today, 21 June 2026
  • The bards were the first adapters.
    David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026
Noun
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 22 June 2026
  • No human journalist was harmed in this experiment.
    CA Earthquake Bot, Sacbee.com, 22 June 2026
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“Prosaist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prosaist. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.

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