Sir Alan is a comic playwright; he has often been called, half-disparagingly, Britain's Neil Simon.

Congreve implies that the purpose of the comic playwright was to portray the vices and follies of society in order to correct them.

Sheridan was a famous comic playwright, but Coleridge emphasized the sentimental aspects of Sheridan's writing.

Another contemporary, the comic playwright Aristophanes, criticizes the sophists as hairsplitting wordsmiths, and makes Socrates their representative.

American versions of Tom Stoppard, the writers can be acrobatic and polymetaphorical; they are deviously comic playwrights.

Aristophanes, the Classical comic playwright described reverently as inspired by the Graces in Epigram 18.

Theresa Rebeck, a comic playwright with a good-humored feminist outlook, may not have intended it.

It was his name that invariably appeared not just on Hart's work but on many another gifted comic playwright's sparkling hit.

Aristophanes, a comic playwright, defined and shaped the idea of comedy as a theatrical form.

Robert Reece (2 May 1838-8 July 1891) was a British comic playwright and librettist active in the Victorian era.