Scene opening tragedy - the original produced by Aeschylus (9)
I believe the answer is:
dramatist
'by aeschylus' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'scene opening tragedy the original' is the wordplay.
'scene' becomes 'drama' (I've seen this before).
'opening tragedy' becomes 'tis' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'original' suggests taking the first letters.
The first letter of 'the' is 't'.
'drama'+'tis'+'t'='DRAMATIST'
'produced' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dramatist that I've seen before include "O'Neill or O'Casey, for example" , "Coward, for example" , "One who writes plays" , "Coward perhaps" , "Writer of plays" .)