English playwright

UK stage author

A person who writes plays and is English by nationality or who writes in English.

The phrase most commonly appears in reference to figures like Shakespeare or Pinter: He's considered the greatest English playwright of the 20th century.

Sometimes used to distinguish from Irish, Scottish, or American dramatists writing in English.

WebsterDictionary brand namesake
ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
Elizabethan theaterLate 1500s English stagecraft
soliloquyDramatic speech to oneself

Marlowe · Shaw · Sheridan · drawing room comedy · Jonson · comedy · Globe Theatre · satire · allegory · farce · social class · symbolism · Wilde · revenge · iambic pentameter · tragic flaw · romantic drama · historical drama

Opposites

literary form/genre

English playwrightEnglish novelist

British long-form fiction writer

English poet

nationality

English playwrightFrench playwright

Drama writer from France

Greek playwright

Family

English, playwright, play, wright, Englishman, Englishwoman, Englishness, plays, played

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