单词 | playbroker |
释义 | > as lemmasplaybroker playbroker n. originally U.S. an agent who serves as an intermediary between playwrights and managers or actors. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > playwriting > [noun] > play-reader or broker reader1799 playbroker1884 1884 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 3/1 ‘The Private Secretary’ has been bought by the Messrs. French, but it will probably be produced in another dress before that estimable firm of family play brokers have disposed of it to any manager in this city. 1929 Evening News 9 Jan. 11/2 Major James Clare, a leading playbroker, who is also a dramatist. 2001 Hist. Today Aug. 34/2 According to Oxfordians..William of Stratford was an actor, playbroker, and businessman who was manifestly incapable of writing the plays attributed to him. < as lemmas |
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