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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as ‘The Blood Knot’ and “‘Master Harold” … and the Boys.’

Foreman was a prolific playwright, but I consider him more of an auteur than a dramatist.

But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.

“You know, I know many dramatists who understand Donald Trump in this moment far better than people working at newspapers and news organizations do.”