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  • noun Plural form of playwriter.

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Examples

  • I would love to speak with the directors to give son of my ideas, all my life ive been around actors in highschool, playwriters and such but have never felt the inspiration that AVATAR has installed.

    Avatar 2 May Go Off Pandora, And Other Sequel Tidbits | /Film 2009

  • Pen never liked to halt, but made his tutor construe when he was at fault, and thus galloped through the Iliad and the Odyssey, the tragic playwriters, writers, and the charming wicked Aristophanes (whom he vowed to be the greatest poet of all).

    The History of Pendennis 2006

  • In the interests of playwriters and play-actors, I wish to see the playgoer -- our dramatic lawgiver -- be educated; and I think this might be done by means of a "Royal Dramatic Academy."

    The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Various

  • The Satan of the Book of Job, jaunty, daring, joking with his Maker, is the Mephisto of Goethe and all the other playwriters who, have used the character.

    Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

  • Some of the names you mention are well known in literature but not as dramatists or playwriters, and therefore the public will be one to be worked up by enthusiasm and love of country.

    Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography 1913

  • This would make them soon perceive what despicable creatures our common rimers and playwriters be, and show them, what religious, what glorious and magnificent use might be made of poetry both in divine and human things.

    Of Education 1909

  • Hostrup and many others as comic playwriters, and was not far short of attributing to their works an importance equal to those of Holberg.

    Recollections Of My Childhood And Youth Brandes, George, 1842-1927 1906

  • There are scores of men like this gifted violinist -- playwriters, painters, journalists, men trained to see things in various ways -- drawn in by universal service and now buried in the mass, but destined some day to emerge to normal life.

    The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers Francis Trevelyan Miller 1902

  • There is a young man at her hotel; she says he will be one of the greatest playwriters in England, and she sent me a play of his to read; it was only a little about love, I did not like it very much ....

    Villa Rubein, and other stories John Galsworthy 1900

  • There is a young man at her hotel; she says he will be one of the greatest playwriters in England, and she sent me a play of his to read; it was only a little about love, I did not like it very much ....

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

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