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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The writing of plays.
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- noun The
writing ofplays .
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Examples
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I did have a good eye and ear for character, one of the few things I was able to grasp in playwriting and carry into fiction.
Interview: Elizabeth Hand odysseyworkshop 2010
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I did have a good eye and ear for character, one of the few things I was able to grasp in playwriting and carry into fiction.
Interview: Elizabeth Hand odysseyworkshop 2010
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I have a theatre degree with concentrations in playwriting, acting and directing …
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Also, I'm not trying to sound snooty or anything, but I have a graduate degree in playwriting, so I probably spend way too much time analyzing things like character, plot development, symbolism and other imagery, plot contrivances, etc., to the extent that I realize I probably attribute things to an author that even the author may not have intended.
Sound Off: The Happening - What Did You Think? « FirstShowing.net 2008
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One of the first lessons I learned in playwriting was that if you couldn't boil the plotline down to a single sentence, you had a problem.
October 2006 2006
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I'm not a psychologist, but my years of studying theatre and character development in playwriting and dramatic literature lend some insight to this behavior.
July 2004 2004
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I have a theatre degree with concentrations in playwriting, acting and directing … what’s your degree in?
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As I was driving lots of thoughts ran through my mind, one of them being that as a master’s candidate in playwriting at the University of Minnesota, I had to write a play and have it produced in order to complete my degree requirements.
March 2004 2004
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Another great component in his playwriting were the shockers that sprung up like emotional land mines throughout the evening.
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I gave my ideas on "playwriting" again at Philadelphia, and was told just before I began that there were several dramatists in the room, including the author of Madame Butterfly.
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