单词 | playwriting |
释义 | > as lemmasplaywriting playwriting n. the writing of a play or plays. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] playmaking1579 playwriting1702 play-wrightry1851 playwrighting1892 1702 Compar. between Two Stages 172 The trade of Play-writing is now (as we say) one of Jack's last Shifts. 1773 D. Garrick Let. 21 June (1963) II. 878 If you think ye Dr wants a rough purge to be cleans'd from his play-writing let it go as it is. 1898 G. B. Shaw Plays Unpleasant Pref. p. v I made a rough memorandum for my own guidance that unless I could produce at least half a dozen plays before I was forty, I had better let playwriting alone. 1995 New Yorker 2 Oct. 70/3 As a result of observing the Bird (as I called Tennessee) at work, Bill decided that playwriting was obviously a very easy thing to do. < as lemmas |
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