The comic dramatist Aristophanes wrote an unpleasant play, The Clouds, about him, and he was attacked after his death. |
Perhaps the dramatist was unwilling to repeat material recently enacted in the True Tragedy. |
The volume will help Yeats scholars to get a more rounded view of his literary output by showing how important was his work as a dramatist. |
In between, he had to contend with a Shavian academic who had come to regard the bearded, vegetarian dramatist as his personal property. |
Among those he turned down were the dramatist Gerhart Hauptmann and the German chancellor Hans Luther. |
The situation instinctively reminds one of the play An Enemy of the People by the Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen. |