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Definition of Drama critic

1. Noun. A critic of theatrical performances.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drama Critic

Literary usage of Drama critic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Best Plays by Burns Mantle, Louis Kronenberger (1899)
"A drama critic." "I measure, and I weigh." "Sounds bad." "That's why I'm trying to fill my house with people—people whom I meet, not professionally, ..."

2. The Table Talk of John Selden by John Selden, Richard Milward (1892)
"In 1938 he became drama critic of Time magazine, a position which he holds at present. During this period he has also written drama criticism for other ..."

3. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"... to attract the notice of the busy preoccupied public that calls into being the professional critics of literature, music, art, and drama. Critic* ..."

4. A Kaleidoscope of Digital American Literature by Martha L. Brogan, Daphnée Rentfrow (2005)
"The collector was J. Willis Sayre, a drama critic, journalist, and promoter. The collection is strongest for the little-studied period when Seattle had a ..."

5. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage by Inc. Merriam-Webster (1994)
"... as well as a 1931 clipping belaboring the drama critic of the New York Herald Tribune on this issue. All three of these mention the nonexistence of the ..."

6. The Theatre of Max Reinhardt by Huntly Carter (1914)
"It seems to foreshadow the coming of the much needed art-drama critic. and expensive staff of limelight men and stage-hands. The most that can be said for ..."

7. Woman's Voice: An Anthology by Josephine Conger Kaneko (1918)
"But the "incidentals" of the present war are, for the careful observer, to say nothing of the professional drama critic, the chips which show what is taking ..."

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