melodramatistn.
/ˌmɛlə(ʊ)ˈdramətɪst/, U.S. /ˌmɛləˈdrɑmədəst/ A writer of melodramas; (also) a person who employs a melodramatic style.
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comicar1523
comedy writer1549
comic1549
comediant1568
comediographer1576
comedian1580
comic poet1589
mimograph1623
mimographer1638
mimic1654
mono-dramatist1803
melodramatist1812
farcer1813
comedist1819
farceur1889
thesis-playwright1902
thick ear1909
music-dramatist1947
compressionist1961
psychodramatist1973
1812 Dramatic Censor 1811 Feb. 156 The fact is (strange as it may seem) that the Public are pertinaciously attached to our present Melo-dramatists.
1813 Ld. Byron Let. 27 Nov. (1974) III. 176 You will of course say..that I am not the Melodramatist.
1873 W. Mathews Getting on in World 27 Perils greater than any which the most daring romance writer or melo-dramatist ever imagined for his hero.
1883 Contemp. Rev. June 892 Shakespeare is..almost the first, and quite the greatest of English melodramatists.
1936 R. C. K. Ensor England, 1870–1914 iii. 71 Idealist and cynic, prophet and tactician, genius and charlatan in one, men took him [sc. Disraeli] for a flaunting melodramatist until they experienced him as a deadly fighter.
1990 Poetry Rev. Spring 70/2 What preserves this from complete derangement is the prolific local brilliance of Murray the poet as distinct from the melodramatist.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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