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1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde f. 235 Two pleasaunt Bookes of Paulmestrie..the first..handled in Dialogue maner, as betweene the maister, and the scholler.

1580 W. Fulke T. Stapleton & Martiall Confuted 165 I laugh to see this wise Dialogue maker..bring in swearing.., as though our Bishops vsed that veine, as commonly as Popish prelats.

1624 J. Ussher Answer to Challenge by Iesuite 229 The Grecians to this day do still use this forme of prayer; As thou didst loose Trajan from punishment by the earnest intercession of thy servant Gregory the Dialogue-writer, [etc.].

1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks III. Misc. v. iii. 317 The Form or Manner of our Dialogue-Author.

a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 68 A kind of circulating library, for the vending of dialogue novels.

1783 Hist. Miss Baltimores I. 211 I will write it dialogue fashion.

1819 Monthly Rev. Sept. 95 The dialogue-form..gives a quaintness to the work which very ill accords with modern taste.

1851 Illustr. London News 3 May 354/3 Sentiment, affection, and romance all..make a delightful dialogue-piece, in which incident is quite a secondary matter.

1909 Trans. Royal Soc. Lit. 2nd Ser. 29 18 I have already mentioned the epoch-making dialogue-novel, the ancestor of all modern realistic fiction, ‘Celestina’.

1911 E. Merrill Dialogue in Eng. Lit. iv. 73 As a dialogue-writer, Dryden shares many of the good qualities and limitations of Cicero.

1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing i. 60 Dialogue-writing, set-design and acting all become subjugated to this central purpose.

2004 P. H. Payne in Searching for Meaning Introd. 19 With Thomas Deloney..we come to a high point in Elizabethan dialogue writing.