Definition of "dramaturgist" []

• A person who composes a drama and directs its representation; a playwright. (noun)

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• "During the six years spent in England, he was a dramaturgist at the Royal Court Theatre in London 1958-1959."
• "Shaw, a highly dexterous dramaturgist, smothers his dramaturgy in a pifflish iconoclasm that is no more than a disguise for Puritanism."
• "Many a one looking backwards upon some terrible and unexpected tragedy will have noticed with what care the great dramaturgist so wove his play that every little unheeded event in the days before helped directly to create the final catastrophe."