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playwriting

playwriting

4 3.9
The activity of writing plays for the stage
  • noun
  • /ˈpleɪˌraɪtɪŋ/
: escritura de obras
  • Still, Galdos had tried his hand at playwriting, and the results turned out to be as exciting as they were controversial.
  • playwriting residency

I thought, well, I'll major in that and take the playwriting courses and all of that.

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Examples

  • In high school, Lockhart started writing, and in college fell into playwriting, which he took very seriously.

    Academic text (2008)

  • I studied playwriting with every teacher.

    Bullets Over Broadway (1994)

  • A student interested in playwriting came to see me about his course of study.

    Academic text (1996)

  • " It was a class in playwriting," he said.

    Fiction book (1992)

  • I thought, well, I'll major in that and take the playwriting courses and all of that.

    Team Coco

  • In the interest of full disclosure, I created and run an MFA program in playwriting.

    Blog text (12)

  • Each year, YPI sponsors a nationwide playwriting competition and receives over eight hundred scripts from young writers, eighteen years old and under.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Linney's many awards include a 1992 Obie Award for sustained excellence in playwriting.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • We must reorder our priorities and set the development of self-esteem as our primary objective for bringing playwriting to K-12 classrooms.

    Academic text (1993)

  • A student interested in playwriting came to see me about his course of study.

Synonyms

scripting
vsplaywriting
2 4.1

Writing scripts for film, television, radio or theatre

refers only to writing theatre scripts rather than wider media work
dramaturgy
vsplaywriting
  • Specialized
1 9.6

The art of writing and making plays for the stage

concentrates on writing scripts for theatre rather than on theory
scriptwriting
vsplaywriting
1 3.7

To write the words and actions actors follow in films, plays or TV shows

is limited to writing for theatre specifically not for other media
playmaking
vsplaywriting
  • Literature
1 4.8

The activity of writing and making plays for the theatre

focuses only on writing stage works not on producing or development

How Developed

playmaking
  • Literature
1 4.8
playwriting
4 3.9
drafting
5 3.3
ideation
  • Jargon
2 7.9

Surface Forms

playwriting singular
playwritings plural

Morphology

playwriting = play + writing (transparent) = play + writing

The meaning 'the activity of writing plays' is directly composed from 'play' + 'writing', a clear compound understood by learners.

Etymology

Playwriting combines play ('a performance or drama') and writing ('putting words on paper'), so it is the work of creating plays for the stage.