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  • noun Plural form of playright.

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Examples

  • As the playrights say, the gun on the wall in Scene I Act I should go off by the end of the Act III.

    Archive 2010-04-01 2010

  • As the playrights say, the gun on the wall in Scene I Act I should go off by the end of the Act III.

    Fluidity 2010

  • Chester Himes, August Wilson if you include playrights

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Three Highest-Selling (Partly) Black Authors: 2009

  • And then he turned into something that the Greek playrights and centuries later, Shakespeare would've understood very well.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Dymphna 2009

  • And then he turned into something that the Greek playrights and centuries later, Shakespeare would've understood very well.

    The ghastly King Herod Dymphna 2009

  • BBC journalists, comedians, playrights, are all extremely brave when it comes to ridiculing Christians - the real extreme fanatics.

    SNEERING COMEDIANS.... 2009

  • The great Elizabethean Lords patronized mummers and playrights.

    The Theatre in Europe and the Americas 1955

  • The new play was announced as the work of two playrights, whom I will indicate as Smith and Brown; it was produced by a firm of managers, whom I will indicate as Jones and Robinson.

    The Pot Boiler Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Aspiring journalists, retiring editors, playrights and composers, a few actors and crowds of would-be poets flocked to the exquisite drawing-rooms hung with yellow, wherein the owner of so much magnificence lounged in her golden hammock.

    Crowded Out! and Other Sketches 1897

  • Established in 1997, the company has produced and toured work from playrights as diverse as Machiavelli, WB Yeats, Tom Murphy, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Willy

    ireland.com Breaking News 2010

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