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Definition of Playwrighting
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Playwrighting
Literary usage of Playwrighting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Kleists Lustspiel"der zerbrochene Krug" auf der Bühne: As Seen in by Gustav Buchtenkirch, Augustus Pitou (1914)
"This art of playwrighting has much in it that is esoteric, many secrets of its
own that are ineffable. The dramatist seeks in vain to explain or understand ..."
2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1917)
"The young of the playwrighting species are constitutionally optimistic. " Oh, we
will, will we ? Well, for example, who ? — since you 're so confident about ..."
3. Main Currents of Spanish Literature by Jeremiah Denis Matthias Ford (1919)
"Still keeping up his futile endeavors at profitable playwrighting, he was also
engaged upon another literary task—one which a number of other Spanish men of ..."
4. Godey's Magazine by Louis Antoine Godey, Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1896)
"... is not everything in playwrighting. There are a few touches . of repressed
intensity impressive for their very quietness. ..."
5. The Exemplary Theatre by Harley Granville-Barker (1922)
"It is noticeable that the playwrighting study groups in America are apt to carry
on in what are called workshops,* having discovered, one presumes, ..."
6. The Bookman's Manual: A Guide to Literature by Bessie Graham (1921)
"Mr. Dickinson says of Galsworthy: "He undertook playwrighting as no artistic
enterprise but as an opportunity in propaganda. ..."
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