As the playwright was shivering, he obeyed with alacrity; and in the warmth of the smoking-room revelled in the picture of his tame capitalist pacing a cold deck, lost to the sea's welter in thoughts of that marvellous last act.
The playwright noticed this, but was too much interested in himself and the hope of securing a capitalist to care.
It was one night when a young playwright who had seized on him as prey wished to find a quiet place to be eloquent about the plot.
Well, it was scarcely to be expected that so popular a tale would never excite the attention of the playwright or the musician.
The sentiment of the poet and the science of the playwright are exquisitely balanced in it.
His dexterity as a playwright is shown in the tact with which he employed these various resources.
The playwright Cecchi has left us several specimens of the written Farsa, together with a general description of the type, which proves it to have been not unlike the earliest of our own romantic plays.
He kept his promise, but at a considerable cost both to his position as playwright and his health.
In Germany Gozzi enjoyed wide posthumous reputation, not as a playwright with the public, but as a poet among men of letters.
He dropped the point of his weapon at his antagonist's request, and prepared himself to meet the playwright on his own ground.
If that was true of pieces composed in dialogue by an English playwright of the Elizabethan age, how far more true is it of the skeletons of comedies, which avowedly owed their force and spirit to extemporaneous talent!
At all events, whenever an English playwright represents a young and marriageable woman as being anything but a romantic heroine, he is disposed of without further thought as an echo of Schopenhauer.
These scenes, however, seem due to a finer artist than Kyd, and there is independent evidence that George Peele had by 1591 also become a playwright for Lord Strange's men.
There is no doubt but the kindly playwright had his conscience, and meant to make people think as well as laugh.
Daly too had discovered that to encourage the American playwright was to court disaster.
But at last, when the playwright had ridiculed and denounced what he called the oldest and tiredest convention in the world for long enough, the play seemed to turn on a pivot, and the pivot was the cradle.
The playwrightgave the playgoers the happy ending for which the world craves and sent them home relieved.
Of late years, the great playwright of the colony, Jacob Gordin, has written mainly for this theatre.
Joseph Latteiner is the most popular playwright in the Bowery, and Boris Thomashevsky perhaps the most popular actor.
The first actor was a singer in the synagogue of Bucharest, the first playwright a composer of Yiddish songs.
As Adler is the most noteworthy representative of the realistic actors of the Ghetto, the professor's opinion shows what the traditional Yiddish playwright thinks of realism.
It then happened that at this juncture there came to him an offer from Paris to go thither as playwright to the Italian Comedy Company, established there under royal patronage.
A playwright with any sense would, if about to write such a scene, obtain professional assistance unless he himself had professional knowledge to steer clear of error.
I hope I may have suggested that almost always, as here in this extraordinary flight of his imagination, he was writing as a playwright and not without full use of the hints and opportunities which the contemporary theater afforded.
But is it great poetry or great drama, and has the skilful playwright need of the stage and of actors like these, who come with their own life and ways upon it, in order to bring the men and women of his pages to life?
The playwright who writes merely for the stage, who squeezes the breath out of life before he has suited it to his purpose, is at the best only playing a clever game with us.
The dramatist of the future will have more to learn from Maeterlinck than from any other playwright of our time.
The playwright has gained experience, the thinker has gained wisdom, but the curious artist has lost some of his magic.
Two people should be able to sit quietly in a room, without ever leaving their chairs, and to hold our attention breathless for as long as the playwright likes.
Mr. Pinero is a playwright with a sharp sense of the stage, and eye for what is telling, a cynical intelligence which is much more interesting than the uncertain outlook of most of our playwrights.
And has been a successful novelist and playwright for three years?
On the other hand it is the exception when an American playwright does well, or indeed when his work is accepted at all.
Barrie is a great playwright because he is so thoroughly human.
He should keep in mind that the playwright is a skilled workman; that he has predetermined for himself just what he wishes his audience to think, feel, or understand, and has marshalled all his materials to that end.
From the story material at his disposal the playwright constructs his plot to this very end.
In writing either, the playwright aims so to handle his material that he will get his central intent to his audience and will provoke their interest and emotional response thereto.
It does not exist for its own end, but is one of the fundamental means whereby the playwright gets his singleness of effect, or theme, to his reader or hearer.
How has theplaywright made it clear and effective?
The playwright who has the genius of the first act has seldom the genius of the fifth.
Not content to follow the bare lines of the ancient chronicle, the playwright weaves into his symphony of adulterous passion historic episodes and pictures of manners.
The playwright paints the peasantry of his country with the sombre brush of Hauptmann.
Love me, love my truth, the playwright says in effect; and we are forced to make a wry face as we swallow the nauseous and unsugared pill he forces down our sentimental gullets.
The Prussian playwright wishes to wear three heron feathers in his cap.
These are details of comparative indifference, in which a playwright may fairly use his liberty of art.
The men outnumbered the women, as is usual in such affairs, and Banneker found himself seated between the playwright and a handsome, silent girl who played with distinction the part of an elderly woman.
David Belasco, playwright and manager, has been uniformly successful with his plays and his stars.
After establishing a reputation as a humorist, he turned playwright and has scored several metropolitan successes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "playwright" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
