influential playwright
Dramatic arts luminary
An influential playwright is a dramatist whose work has shaped theater, inspired other writers, or changed how stories are told on stage.
The phrase emphasizes lasting impact rather than commercial success: Shakespeare remains the most influential playwright in the English language.
She studied the influential playwrights of the twentieth century.
- Arthur MillerAmerican dramatist, mid-century
- theater of the absurdExistentialist dramatic movement
- ShakespeareElizabethan dramatist and poet
- tragic heroCharacter whose flaw causes ruin
- MolièreTartuffe's comic creator
Samuel Beckett · stage directions · Euripides · Sophocles · Oscar Wilde · Tennessee Williams · Henrik Ibsen · Bertolt Brecht · August Wilson · Broadway debut · Anton Chekhov · dramatic monologue · fourth wall · Aeschylus · Greek tragedy · George Bernard Shaw · David Mamet · Lin-Manuel Miranda
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