Definition of "dramatists" [dramatists]

• Plural form of dramatist. (noun)

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• "Brunetti, who has been reading the Greek dramatists, is deeply affected by the discovery: He could not bring himself, not that night, to read of the death of Astyanax."
• "But the rara avis among dramatists, is he who possesses the tragic species, and not the epic; for any one conversant with the English stage, from Shakspeare downwards, will easily perceive that almost all our dramatic writers mistake the epic for the tragic vein of magniloquence; * now, the Author of the"
• "All plays taken together are called the drama, and the writers of them are called dramatists, from a Greek word dran, to act or do."