Meanings of successful dramatist in English

Still, when he became a successful dramatist there might be an actor-manager-

She gave up the hope of becoming a successful dramatist.

The modesty and good nature of the successful dramatist had tamed even the malignity of faction.

What the ordinary writer makes in a year the successful dramatist receives, without labour, in a fortnight.

He claimed to be a successful dramatist and author, thus adding materially to my conception of his character and capability.

The question brings forward another, and it is this: whether Shakespeare, if he were writing nowadays, would be a successful dramatist.

In London I went to see a comedy written by a deservedly successful dramatist, and staged, I think, under his personal direction.

Not that he could recollect, for he had never dreamed of being a successful dramatist; that good fortune had been thrust upon him.

"If I were a successful dramatist, such as you are, a public office would look rather tawdry."

"None at all," replied the successful dramatist, or, in other words, the long-backed Ticket to whom we were introduced at the commencement of the story.