French playwright
Parisian stage writer
A French playwright is a dramatist from France or writing in the French tradition.
The term often evokes the classical works of Molière, Racine, and Corneille, or the twentieth-century existentialist and absurdist movements of Sartre, Camus, Ionesco, and Beckett: The course surveys French playwrights from the seventeenth century to the present.
- MolièreTartuffe's comic creator
- RacineSoutheastern Wisconsin municipality
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
- dramaturgeTheater literary advisor
- Commedia dell'arteItalian improvised masked theater
satire · tragedy · farce · absurdism · Victor Hugo · existentialism · Samuel Beckett · Waiting for Godot · Voltaire · Edmond · drawing room comedy · dramatic poetry · lyrical style · romanticism · lyricism · mise en scène · stage directions · curtain