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A playwright is a person who writes plays—scripts for theatrical performances. The term matters because playwrights create the foundational works that make theater possible, shaping stories and characters that audiences experience on stage.
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- Subclass of
- writer
- Image
- Henrik Ibsen by Gustav Borgen NFB-19778.jpg
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- male form of label
- dramaturgo
- female form of label
- كاتيبة مسراحية
- different from
- screenwriter
- model item
- William Shakespeare
- Commons category
- Playwrights
- ISCO-88 occupation class
- 2451
- category for eponymous categories
- Category:Wikipedia categories named after dramatists and playwrights
- equivalent class
- dbpedia.org/ontology/PlayWright
- topic's main category
- Category:Dramatists and playwrights
- ISCO-08 occupation class
- 2641
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