English natives, once and for all can you please clarify the

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>>8720675
1- Play or Plea

2- Play-write or Demiurg

3- Scriptwriter = Writes exclusively in cursive or curlicue fonts
Screenwriter = Writes crime dramas for film such as The Departed or Pulp Fiction
Screenplay = What occurs in the movie screen
Script = What actors memorize and say for loads of money
Playwright = The opening night of a play, often confused with 'Play-write'

>>8720675

A play is any fictional story intended to be performed live by actors to an audience. This term describes a category of works. The genre of story, comedy, tragedy, history, and the manner of production and design all modify the basic term play. English being fairly lazy, terms are often simplified so rather than being a dramatic play; it's simply a drama.

The term play is also somewhat overloaded in that a play can refer to the performance, or it can be a synonym for the script. It has other meanings but we don't need to consider them here.

The other category word is "script". Anything that tells someone how to act and speak is a script. Even if it's not entertainment or performance it can still be scripted. Any telemarketer, customer service rep, and even many retail employees have their actions scripted.

A screenplay is a play written to be performed on a screen. It's a modification of a play to communicate a different medium of performance.

So a playwright writes plays to be performed live on stage. A screenwriter wrights plays to be performed on screen. A scriptwriter writes pieces to be performed, regardless of the medium.

If you want to understand these things, identify the broad category words first. Then the specific terms will be clearer.

>>8720675
>1. What do you call a book/genre (superlative) like drama

It's a play. "Drama" is occasionally interchangeable with the term "play", but drama usually just refers to the idea of drama: interpersonal action, character development, etc. without a reliance on melodrama, special effects, and extraneous things. The most apt place for drama to occur is the stage, with plays -- hence, "drama" and "play" sometimes mean the same thing.

>2. What do you call a person who wrote the piece with stage direction, dramatis personae etc?

Playwright. Dramatist means the same thing, but playwright is the older term and used more often.

>3. Diference between:

A scriptwriter is one who writes scripts. A script, then, is a collection of dialogue. Although "scriptwriter" is the most general term for a writer who creates dialogue for any kind of performance, it's not a widely-used term -- this is because writers usually do more than create a collection of dialogue.

However, "script" is used interchangeably for plays and screenplays. This is because "script" usually refers to the physical text of a play/screenplay, as it might be given to an actor to read.

Now, a screenwriter creates screenplays. Screenplays are scripts (plus other minor things like action, descriptions, locations inside or outside) that are for the screen -- either the big screen (movies) or the small screen (TV, internet shows, etc.). Note well that you might run into the term "teleplay", which is merely a screenplay for TV; also note that the term "telewriter" or such doesn't exist: if you write any kind of screenplays, you are a screenwriter.

A playwright creates plays. A play is a script (plus minor things like action) that is intended for live performance, usually on stage, in front of a crowd.

>>8720675

2) Yes.

English is not only lazy, it's profligate. Each of those terms will be correct in some circumstance.

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>>8720675

In English, as in every other language, there are multiple words with overlapping (and often identical) meanings.
1. A printed play script is called a play. Forget about calling a play "a drama."

2. The author of a play is a playwright (NOT "play-write" and not "playwrite"). A playwright is never called a scriptwriter or screenwriter: those terms are for film and broadcast media.

3. Script writing is the process of writing dialogue which can be used in talk shows, news programs, sports broadcasts and infotainment programs. It is also correct to call writing a script for a movie or a narrative TV show script writing, but the script usually involves more than just character descriptions and dialogue. Script writing doesn't involve discussing the visuals of a TV show or a movie. This is a more specific type of script writing which is called screenwriting.

4. Screenwriting is also a process of writing a script, but this is only used for filmmaking that have narrative elements that involve dramatic elements and other components of the film that need to be seen on the screen to serve the overall narrative like the setting, the lighting and movements. Screenwriting provides the visuals that complement what the characters are doing and saying.

5. So as you've probably guessed, a script is usually just the dialogue for actors. A screenplay contains more detail. See above.

>>8720712
Neither helpful nor amusing. Back to /b/ with you.