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Playwright |
Nationality |
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Works |
| Aeschylus | Greek | 525 - 456BC |
Oresteia trilogy
Seven Against Thebes Prometheus Bound. |
| Sophocles | Greek | 496 - 406BC |
Antigone
Oedipus the King Electra Ajaz Philoctetes. |
| Euripides | Greek | 480 - 406BC |
Alcestis
Medea Iphigenia Orestes. |
| Aristophanes | Greek | c 488 - 380BC |
The Frogs
The Clouds The Birds. |
| Plautus | Roman | c 254 - 184BC | Amphitruo. |
| Terence | Roman | c 195 - 159BC | Phormio. |
| Seneca | Roman | c 4BC - 65AD | Phaedra. |
| Lope de Vega | Spanish | 1562 - 1635 | The Knight of Olmedo. |
| Christopher Marlowe | English | 1564 - 1593 |
Dr Faustus
Tamburlaine the Great Edward II The Jew of Malta. |
| William Shakespeare | English | 1564 - 1616 |
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet among many others. |
| Ben Jonson | English | 1573 - 1637 |
Every Man in His Humour
Volpone The Alchemist. |
| John Fletcher | English | 1579 - 1625 | Joint author with Francis Beaumont. |
| Francis Beaumont | English | 1584 - 1616 |
The Knight of the Burning Pestle
The Maid's Tradegy Philander. |
| John Webster | English | c 1580 - 1625 | The Widow (Duchess) of Malfi. |
| Philip Massinger | English | 1583 - 1640 | A New Way to Pay Old Debts. |
| Pedro Calderon de la Barca | Spanish | 1600 - 1681 | Life is a Dream. |
| Pierre Corneille | French | 1606 - 1684 |
Le Cid
Polyeucte Le Menteur. |
| Moliere | French | 1622 - 1673 |
L'Avare
Tartuffe Le Misanthrope Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. |
| John Dryden | English | 1631 - 1700 |
All for Love
Absolen and Achitophet. |
| Sir George Etherege | English | c 1634 - 1691 | The Man of Mode. |
| Jean Racine | French | 1639 - 1699 |
Andromaque
Phedre Iphigemie. |
| William Wycherley | English | 1640 - 1716 |
Love in a Wood
The Plain Dealer The Country Wife. |
| William Congreve | English | 1670 - 1729 |
The Way of the World
Love for Love. |
| George Farquhar | Irish | 1678 - 1707 | The Beaux' Stratagem. |
| Carlo Goldoni | Italian | 1707 - 1793 | Le Bottega di Caffe. |
| Gotthold Lessing | German | 1729 - 1781 |
Minna von Barnhelm
Emelia Galotti. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Irish | 1730 - 1774 | She Stoops to Conquer. |
| Pierre de Beaumarchais | French | 1732 - 1799 | Le Marriage de Figaro. |
| Johann von Goethe | German | 1749 - 1832 |
Gotz von Berlichingen
Iphigenie Faust. |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Irish | 1751 - 1816 | The Rivals. |
| Friedrich von Schiller | German | 1759 - 1805 |
The Robbers
Wallenstein Mary Stuart The Maid of Orleans William Tell. |
| Victor Hugo | French | 1802 - 1885 |
Ruy Blas
Hernani Lucrece Borgia Le Roi s'amuse. |
| Henrik Ibsen | Norwegian | 1828 - 1906 |
The Wild Duck
The Master Builder A Doll's House Hedda Gabler Peer Gynt. |
| August Strindberg | Swedish | 1849 - 1912 |
Luck Peter
Gustav Adolf Till Damascus The Father Miss Julie. |
| Oscar Wilde | Irish | 1854 - 1900 |
Lady Windermere's Fan
A Woman of no Importance An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest. |
| George Bernard Shaw | English/Irish | 1856 - 1950 |
Man and Superman
Heartbreak House Back to Methusela St Joan The Apple Cart Bouyant Billions Pygmalion. |
| Anton Chekhov | Russian | 1860 - 1904 |
The Cherry Orchard
Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters. |
| Gerhart Hauptmann | German | 1862 - 1946 | The Weavers. |
| Luigi Pirandello | Italian | 1867 - 1936 | Six Characters in Search of an Author. |
| Maxim Gorky | Russian | 1868 - 1936 | The Lower Depths. |
| Jean Giraudoux | French | 1882 - 1944 | Tiger at the gates. |
| Eugene O'Neill | American | 1888 - 1953 |
Anna Christie
Strange Interlude Mourning Becomes Electra The Iceman Cometh. |
| T. S. Eliot | American | 1888 - 1965 |
The Cocktail Party
Murder in the Cathedral The Family Reunion. |
| Jean Cocteau | French | 1891 - 1963 | The Infernal Machine. |
| Bertolt Brecht | German | 1898 - 1956 |
The Threepenny Opera
Mother Courage The Caucasian Chalk Circle. |
| Federico Garcia Lorca | Spanish | 1898 - 1936 | Bodas de Sangre. |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | French | 1905 - 1980 |
The Flies
Les Mouches Huis Clos Crime Passionel La Putain Respectueuse Les Sequestres d'Altona. |
| Samuel Beckett | Irish | 1906 - 1989 |
Waiting for Godot
Endgame Krapp's Last Tape Happy Days Not I. |
| Christopher Fry | English | 1907 - ? |
The Lady's Not for Burning
Venus Observed The Dark is Light Enough Curtmantle A Yard of Sun A Sleep of Prisoners. |
| Jean Anouilh | French | 1910 - 1987 |
Eurydice
Antigone The Lark Becket The Fighting Cock The Waltz of the Toreadors. |
| Tennessee Williams | American | 1911 - ? | The Glass Menagerie. |
| Eugene Ionesco | Rumanian | 1912 - 1994 |
The Bald Prima Donna
The Chairs Rhinoceros. |
| Arthur Miller | American | 1915 - ? |
Death of a Salesman The Crucible A View from the Bridge. |
| Friedrich Durrenmatt | Swiss | 1921 - ? | The Visit. |
| Ray Lawler | Australian | 1922 - ? | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll. |
| Robert Bolt | English | 1924 - ? | A Man For All Seasons. |
| Edward Albee | American | 1928 - ? |
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Delicate Balance. |
| John Osborne | English | 1929 - ? |
Look Back in Anger The Entertainer Luther Inadmissible Evidence. |
| Harold Pinter | English | 1930 - ? |
The Room The Dumb Waiter The Birthday Party The Caretaker The Homecoming Old Times No Man's Land Betrayal. |
| John Arden | English | 1930 - ? | Seargent Musgrave's Dance. |
| Arnold Wesker | English | 1932 - ? | Roots. |
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