The amount of 50 pounds is considered to be a meagre wage here for a popular playwright.
After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s.
Petras Vaičiūnas was another popular playwright, producing one play each year during the 1920s and 1930s.
Inviting popular playwrights into opera is an exciting idea.
He became a popular playwright, usually working in collaboration.
Under the name Edward Percy, he was also a popular playwright.
Sardou was one of the world's most popular playwrights between 1860 and 1900.
Yasmina Reza may have the tidiest mind of any popular playwright working today.
There's never that little wink to say, "Don't worry, I'm really just doing this for fun," which we like our popular playwrights to give us.
He is considered by many theater people to be the most popular contemporary American playwright.