dramatists
Composers of plays
Dramatists are writers of plays or other dramatic works for stage, screen, or radio.
The term emphasizes the craft of creating dialogue and theatrical structure rather than prose or poetry.
Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Tennessee Williams rank among history's most celebrated dramatists.
The festival showcased emerging dramatists from across the region.
Author of stage dramas
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- characterizationDescribing distinctive qualities
- plottingDevising a secret plan
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
comedy · tragicomedy · soliloquy · monologue · protagonist · antagonist · conflict · denouement
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- MolièreTartuffe's comic creator
- IbsenNorwegian playwright, drama reformer
- ChekhovRussian short-story master
- SophoclesClassical Athenian playwright
Euripides · Beckett · Tennessee Williams · Arthur Miller · Aristophanes · Marlowe · Wilde · Shaw
Written words for performance
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- sceneDramatic unit or locale
- stage directionsInstructions within a script
- blockingImpeding forward progress
rehearsal · director · casting · audition · read-through · workshop · premiere · revival
Visible natural surroundings
- costumesClothes for assuming roles
- lightingArt of illuminating spaces
- soundAudible wave phenomenon
- propsTheater accessories or praise
set · backdrop · makeup · choreography · cue · stage manager · proscenium · wings
playwright
Author of stage dramas
- dialogueSpoken exchange between parties
- characterizationDescribing distinctive qualities
- plottingDevising a secret plan
tragedy · comedy · tragicomedy · soliloquy · monologue · protagonist · antagonist · conflict · denouement · foreshadowing
Shakespeare
Elizabethan dramatist and poet
- MolièreTartuffe's comic creator
- IbsenNorwegian playwright, drama reformer
- ChekhovRussian short-story master
Sophocles · Euripides · Beckett · Tennessee Williams · Arthur Miller · Aristophanes · Marlowe · Wilde · Shaw
script
Written words for performance
- screenplayFilm's written blueprint
- sceneDramatic unit or locale
- stage directionsInstructions within a script
blocking · rehearsal · director · casting · audition · read-through · workshop · premiere · revival · repertoire
scenery
Visible natural surroundings
props · set · backdrop · makeup · choreography · cue · stage manager · proscenium · wings
storytelling
Recounting events aloud
structure · fiction · prose · genre · narrator · catharsis · allegory · satire · farce · melodrama
- dramatistsplaywrights, dramaturgs, dramaturges, comedy writers
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- French LiteratureVictor Hugo, Hugo, Alexandre Dumas, Dumas, Jules Verne
- Greek TheaterGreek tragedy, tragedy, comedy, Sophocles, Euripides
- Chinese Writersnovelists, poets, classical poets, modern writers, modern novelists
- Elizabethan writersplaywrights, poets, sonneteers, chroniclers, pamphleteers
dramatistsnovelists
Writers of long-form fiction
poets · essayists · fiction writers · lyricists · journalists
dramatistsactors
Those playing roles
performers · directors · stagehands · producers · set designers
- Greek dramatistsAncient Athenian theater writers