reviser

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Mr. Polito thereby gives us a poet who isn’t “just a blazing, mercurial, ingenious reviser of his own words and melodies but also a conscious, sly, artist.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 6, 2026

Orwell’s protagonist, Winston Smith, works as a reviser of historical records in the Ministry of Truth before becoming a member of a doomed resistance movement.

From Washington Post • Feb. 14, 2019

Shakespeare, too, was a tireless reviser, Mr. Shapiro pointed out, even adding some songs to a later production of “Macbeth,” of all plays, just to perk it up.

From New York Times • Apr. 16, 2015

Normally an obsessive outliner and reviser, he began writing a screenplay without any clear idea of where it was going.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2010

He must have speedily become the principal man in the firm, combining as he did the work of composer, reviser, and adaptor of plays with that of actor and working partner.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)