Well, he is difficult because he is not a playwright.
The playwrights might even have been amused to find that those statistics might actually confirm their claims, at least in limited ways.
Many volumes with such a coverage remit fail to go much beyond the standard canonical playwrights and texts.
Not only were all the writers involved novice playwrights, but the actors, too, were firsttime performers.
No matter what the vantage point, the opera can be seen as igniting and sustaining a racial fantasy that entranced playwright, composer and operagoers alike.
But directors who liked contemporary plays and wanted to stage them from the playwright's point of view were ousted from the big boys' club.
He did, however, start off with the right credentials to become a major playwright: he considered disrespect for authority a cardinal virtue.
The first is the popular conviction that the playwright is not a craftsman but a genius.