Word: dramatistic
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...tone is that of the seer scorned; yet he can hardly claim to be the prophet ignored. For 30 years he has been a cinder in the public eye: novelist, Broadway playwright, television dramatist, screenwriter, essayist, congressional candidate, actor, troubador to the Kennedy Camelot, talk-show regular, political debater and full-time nag. Millions who have never read him recognize his electronic presence: elegance bordering on narcissism, feline languor, throaty self-assurance...
...skills as a serious dramatist, Harold Pinter, 45, seems to have patterned his private life after a daytime soap opera. Last summer the British author of The Homecoming separated from his wife of 19 years, Actress Vivien Merchant, 46, and took up housekeeping with Lady Antonia Fraser, 43, a whirling dervish of London society, a biographer (Mary Queen of Scots) and mother of six. Tory M.P. Hugh Fraser kept discreetly quiet about his wife's affair, but Merchant sued Pinter for divorce, and the new lovemates quickly assumed a low public profile. Lately, however, those profiles have ventured back...
Legend has it that Sophocles wrote a play at 90 and used it as evidence to refute his son, who wished to seize the aged dramatist's estate on the ground that he was senile. Sophocles won the case. It is to be feared that if Enid Bagnold, 86, were put to the test via A Matter of Gravity, she would not fare quite so well...
...revolting theater--unreality becoming superreal--in the tradition of Franz Wedekind, early twentieth-century dramatist of the grotesque whose "The Queen from New Fun Land" inspired the ballet. Perhaps another influence is Jerzy Grotowski, Antonin Artaud's heir, whose company is based, along with The Polish Mime Ballet Theatre, in Wroclaw, Poland...
Scholars know Simon Forman as the man who attended-and made notes on -four of Shakespeare's plays performed during the dramatist's lifetime. Historian A.L. Rowse, 72, knows Forman as something more: an extravagant conflation of Horatio Alger and Doctor Faustus whose claim to fame lies buried in a "vast mass" of barely decipherable manuscripts. Having burrowed through this trove of papers, Rowse now announces that Forman "has exposed himself as no one has done, not even Pepys or Boswell or Rousseau, and with more naive candor and ingenuous truthfulness than a Henry Miller...