Example sentences for: playwrights

How can you use “playwrights” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • When the National Theatre staged his first full-length stage play, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead , in 1967 (he had previously done radio pieces for the BBC), he joined the fashionable ranks of such English playwrights as Alan Ayckbourn and Harold Pinter.

  • Works of George Bernard Shaw and other major playwrights are performed in the modern Festival Theatre (Wellington Street and Queen’s Parade Road), with its pleasant garden for a cocktail between acts.

  • If the inhabitants are predominantly of a particularly ethnic stock, they might like to commemorate Italian painters, Spanish poets, or Greek playwrights; if they are of a classical bent, they can find names of important works of Latin and Greek literature; on the other hand, if they like modern music, they can name their streets after rock groups or stars.

  • And you might add that the political interests of American playwrights tend to revolve more around issues of identity and less around national institutions.

  • Lately, we Americans even seem more interested in our own playwrights when we see them reflected back at us by the Brits.


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