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in late 2008, Norwegian novelist Johan Harstad won the Brage Prize and was hired as the first in-house playwright at the National Theatre of Norway ?
although Russian playwright Viktoriya Tokareva's writing style is often compared to that of Anton Chekhov , none of her work has been published in English ?
Russian playwright Yakov Knyazhnin was once thought to have been tortured to death after presenting a libertarian play to Catherine the Great ?
the libretto for Rameau 's first opera , Hippolyte et Aricie (1733), was provided by the seasoned playwright and librettist abbé Pellegrin ?
the Peruvian playwright Juan de Espinosa Medrano wrote plays both in Spanish and in Quechua during the 17th century?
though George Bernard Shaw called fellow Edwardian playwright St John Hankin ’s death "a public calamity," his work was largely neglected until the 1990s?
the Requiem of Max Reger is a musical setting not of the Latin Requiem , but of a poem Requiem written by the dramatist Friedrich Hebbel ?
Vienna Fingers cookies, first sold in 1915, were mentioned in American playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon 's 1965 play The Odd Couple ?
Luis Rafael Sanchez is considered to be the greatest playwright to hail from Puerto Rico ?
Jamaican -born poet , playwright and screenwriter Evan Jones wrote the 1963 BBC television play Madhouse on Castle Street in which Bob Dylan made his acting début?
French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac once lived in the house on the Moika River Embankment which now hosts the Consulate-General of France in Saint Petersburg ?
legal experts consider the YouTube divorce video posted by British playwright Tricia Walsh-Smith be the first of its kind?
Malian playwright and novelist Massa Makan Diabaté was the descendant of a long line of Malinké griots ?
poet and playwright Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska (pictured ), known as the Polish Sappho , discussed topics such as abortion , extra-marital affairs, and incest ?
playwright Josefina Niggli is believed to be the only Mexican-American woman to have a theatre named after her?
English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School 's 300-year history to be permitted to direct a school play?
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Question 1 : However, the most successful playwrights are often high-status figures in their industry, in stark contrast to the status of the screenwriter in ________ .
Question 2 : A playwright , also known as a dramatist , is a person who writes dramatic literature or ________ .
Question 3 : The earliest playwrights in Western literature with surviving works are the ________ .
Question 4 : and a growing reliance on ticket sales as a source of income for ________ theatres has caused many of them to reduce the number of new works they produce.
Question 5 : Such notables as ________ , Sophocles , Euripides , and Aristophanes established forms that are still relied on by their modern counterparts.
Question 6 : The term playwright appears to have been coined by ________ in his Epigram 49, To Playwright ,[ 2] as an insult, to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre.