Definition of Playwriting

1. Noun. The writing of plays. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Playwriting

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Playwriting

playthroughs
playtimes
playtoy
playtoys
playwear
playwork
playworker
playworkers
playwright
playwrighting
playwrightings
playwrights
playwriter
playwriters
playwriting (current term)
playwritings
plaza
plazalike
plazas
plaçage
ple-
plea
plea-bargain
plea bargain
plea bargaining
plea bargains
plea in abatement
plea of insanity
plea of the crown

Literary usage of Playwriting

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

1. The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls by George Jean Nathan (1921)
"WRITING VERSUS playwriting §62 Brieux, the Propagandist. ... §63 Writing Versus playwriting.—Plumbing the astonishment and enthusiasm engendered among the ..."

2. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... playwriting, that the perpetual conscious- much evil, opening the gap between en- a fault of this book, as of all books on brow' by the 'highbrow' has ..."

3. The Dramatic Index for ...: Covering Articles and Illustrations Concerning edited by Anne C. Sutherland, Frederick Winthrop Faxon, Mary Estella Bates (1921)
"The mechanics of Elizabethan playwriting. WJ Lawrence. Athen. 1920, pt. ... Goldoni on playwriting, with an introduction by HC Chatfield-Taylor. ..."

4. The Analysis of Play Construction and Dramatic Principle by William Thompson Price (1908)
"There is a certain mechanism about playwriting that is just as distinct as the mechanism of a watch. Any contention to the contrary is the prejudice of ..."

5. The Theatre, the Drama, the Girls by George Jean Nathan (1921)
"WRITING VERSUS playwriting §62 Brieux, the Propagandist. ... §63 Writing Versus playwriting.—Plumbing the astonishment and enthusiasm engendered among the ..."

6. Writing of Today: Models of Journalistic Prose by John William Cunliffe, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1922)
"... playwriting, that the perpetual conscious- much evil, opening the gap between en- a fault of this book, as of all books on brow' by the 'highbrow' has ..."

7. The Dramatic Index for ...: Covering Articles and Illustrations Concerning edited by Anne C. Sutherland, Frederick Winthrop Faxon, Mary Estella Bates (1921)
"The mechanics of Elizabethan playwriting. WJ Lawrence. Athen. 1920, pt. ... Goldoni on playwriting, with an introduction by HC Chatfield-Taylor. ..."

8. The Analysis of Play Construction and Dramatic Principle by William Thompson Price (1908)
"There is a certain mechanism about playwriting that is just as distinct as the mechanism of a watch. Any contention to the contrary is the prejudice of ..."

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