Sentences with phrase «dramatists writing»

Two other significant Modernist dramatists writing in the 1920s and 1930s were Bertolt Brecht and Federico García Lorca.

Not exact matches

A poet writing in the twentieth century A.D. may be a puny figure compared with the titanic stature of a Greek dramatist five centuries before Christ, and ethical insight can not be graded on the basis of the calendar.

Even throughout his period of theological and philosophical formation, when he produced important translations and studies of works by Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor, among others, he also wrote about drama and dramatists.

• The eighteenth - century French writer and dramatist Nicolas Chamfort wrote: «Nearly all people live in slavery for the reason the Spartans gave us as the cause of the slavery of the Persians: they are not able to utter the syllable «no.»

A British delegation of dramatists, directors, theatre professionals (and this critic) had descended on the city for a weekend conference about the creation and nurturing of a new writing culture.

(Actually, Hecht and MacArthur had demanded too large a screenwriting fee, so Bartlett Cormack, a reporter turned dramatist, did the adaptation, and Charles Lederer, who would go on to write Howard Hawks's remake His Girl Friday, supplied additional dialogue.

The winners of both writing trophies were dramatists in the early stages of their careers: Lolita Chakrabarti took most promising playwright with her first play, Red Velvet, while Nick Payne claimed best blay with only his fourth performed script, Constellations.

Seeing the reaction to this character — someone who's doing stuff that you haven't seen a woman do for a long time, if at all, who's not trying to placate an audience or ask any favors — that's exciting to write as a dramatist.»

Dramatist and director Mark Ravenhill (b. 1966 in Haywards Heath, UK; based in London) writes plays, scripts and radio dramas.