Definition of Dramatist

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Definition of Dramatist
	Dramatist The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays. Related Definitions: Author, Composition, Dramatic, Of, The, Writer

Dramatist Quotations

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton Wilder

I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
Oliver Stone

It's insulting to ask a dramatist what his view of his play is. I have no opinion.
Edward Bond

I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
Oliver Stone

I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage.
Laurence Housman

There is no essential difference between the material of comedy and tragedy. All depends on the point of view of the dramatist, which, by clever emphasis, he tries to make the point of view of his audience.
George P. Baker

From that time through the time I was a New Dramatist, when I was something like twenty-two, I saw absolutely everything in New York. Absolutely everything.
Richard Foreman

When actors are talking, they are servants of the dramatist. It is what they can show the audience when they are not talking that reveals the fine actor.
Cedric Hardwicke

Shakespeare was a dramatist of note who lived by writing things to quote.
H. C. Bunner

Dramatist Translations

dramatist in Spanish is dramaturgo
dramatist in Swedish is dramatiker

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