Gillet De La Tessonerie
Gillet de La Tessonerie (c. 1620 – c. 1660) was a French playwright. Little of his life is known, though he is known to have been a member of the council of the Cour des Monnaies in 1642 and to have written nine plays between 1640 and 1657. Selected works *''L'Art de Régner'' (''The Art of Reigning'') (1645) - a tragi-comedy, each of whose five acts forms a separate playlet External links
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Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth mea ...
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