id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-7747 Playwright - Wikipedia .html text/html 2100 238 69 A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Early playwrights[edit] One structural unit that is still useful to playwrights today, is the "French scene", which is a scene in a play where the beginning and end are marked by a change in the makeup of the group of characters onstage, rather than by the lights going up or down or the set being changed.[5] Popularized in the nineteenth century by the French playwrights Eugène Scribe and Victorien Sardou, and perhaps the most schematic of all formats, the "well-made play" relies on a series of coincidences (for better or worse) that determined the action. Contemporary playwrights in the United States[edit] New play development[edit] Media related to Playwrights at Wikimedia Commons Wikipedia articles with style issues from November 2019 ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7747.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7747.txt