Playwrights Flashcards
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Screenwriter
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a writer who writes for television or a movie
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Playwright
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Creates a script for a play or stage production
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Screenplay/Teleplay
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A script written for a movie or television show
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Shakespeare
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Modern English and wrote Romeo and Juliet
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Sophocles
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Wrote tragedies (Greek chorus)
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Aristophanes
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Wrote comedies
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Lorraine Hansberry
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Wrote plays in the 1900s (A raisin in the sun)
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August Wilson
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Wrote about the African American experience in his day
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Henrik Ibsen
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Realism an naturalism play
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Tennessee Williams
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Wrote plays dealing with the American South (where is Tennessee?)
