d) Playwrights come to their craft with different aesthetic sensibilities.
a) They create recognizable worlds with troubling relevance to human behavior and social themes.
b) Others dismiss the illusion of the real to engage us in political arguments or absurdist metaphors.
c) Thornton Wilder and Tennessee Williams, on the one hand, and Bertolt Brecht and Samuel Beckett, on the other, are playwrights with very different approaches to empathy and aesthetic distance.
e) However, these writers have in common their means of artistic expression – the play.
