单词 | play-doctor |
释义 | > as lemmasplay-doctor play-doctor n. a professional improver of other people's plays. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > improver of other people's plays play-doctor1912 1912 Evening Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 19 July 3/2 If Shakespeare lived to-day he would have waited four years to have his first comedy read and accepted—after which it would have been re-written by the stage carpenter and the leading lady and put on with interpolated songs and a costume chorus with a play doctor in the rear of the theater keeping track of the laughs with a hand comptometer. 1967 P. McGerr Murder is Absurd ii. 32 A play doctor was brought in to rework Rex's unfinished script. 1994 H. Burton Leonard Bernstein ii. xiv. 132 Mr. Abbott, as he was universally known, was a theatrical legend. He had been an actor, writer, play-doctor and producer. < as lemmas |
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