n. 25B6; noun PLAYWRIGHT, writer, scriptwriter, screenwriter, scenarist, dramaturge. See list.
Dramatists
Aeschylus (Greek) Lessing, Gotthold (German)
Albee, Edward (American) Lorca, Federico García (Spanish)
Anouilh, Jean (French) Maeterlinck, Comte Maurice (Belgian)
Arden, John (English) Mamet, David (American)
Aristophanes (Greek) Marivaux, Pierre de (French)
Ayckbourn, Alan (English) Marlowe, Christopher (English)
Barrie, J. M. (Scottish) Massinger, Philip (English)
Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de (French) Menander (Greek)
Beaumont, Francis (English) Middleton, Thomas (English)
Beckett, Samuel (Irish) Miller, Arthur (American)
Behan, Brendan (Irish) Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin; French)
Bennett, Alan (English) Montherlant, Henry de (French)
Berkoff, Steven (English) Musset, Alfred de (French)
Betti, Ugo (Italian) Nichols, Peter (English)
Bolt, Robert (English) O'Casey, Sean (Irish)
Bond, Edward (English) Odets, Clifford (American)
Brecht, Bertolt (German) O'Neill, Eugene (American)
Büchner, Georg (German) Orton, Joe (English)
Bulgakov, Mikhail (Soviet) Osborne, John (English)
Calderón de la Barca, Pedro (Spanish) Ostrovsky, Aleksandr (Russian)
010C; apek, Karel (Czech) Otway, Thomas (English)
Chekhov, Anton (Russian) Pinero, Arthur Wing (English)
Churchill, Caryl (English) Pinter, Harold (English)
Claudel, Paul (French) Pirandello, Luigi (Italian)
Cocteau, Jean (French) Plautus (Roman)
Congreve, William (English) Poliakoff, Stephen (English)
Corneille, Pierre (French) Potter, Dennis (English)
Coward, Noel (English) Pushkin, Aleksandr (Russian)
Cyrano de Bergerac, Savinien (French) Racine, Jean (French)
Dekker, Thomas (English) Rattigan, Terence (English)
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich (Swiss) Rostand, Edmond (French)
Euripides (Greek) Rowe, Nicholas (English)
Farquar, George (Irish) Rowley, William (English)
Feydeau, Georges (French) Saroyan, William (American)
Fletcher, John (English) Schiller, Friedrich von (German)
Fo, Dario (Italian) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Roman)
Ford, John (English) Shakespeare, William (English)
Frayn, Michael (English) Shaw, (George) Bernard (Irish)
Fry, Christopher (English) Shepard, Sam (American)
Fugard, Athol (South African) Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (Irish)
Genet, Jean (French) Simon, Neil (American)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (German) Sophocles (Greek)
Goldoni, Carlo (Italian) Soyinka, Wole (Nigerian)
Goldsmith, Oliver (Irish) Stoppard, Tom (British, b. in Czechoslovakia)
Gorky, Maxim (Russian) Storey, David (English)
Gray, Simon (English) Strindberg, August (Swedish)
Greene, Robert (English) Sutherland, Efua (Ghanaian)
Hampton, Christopher (British, b. in the Azores) Synge, J. M. (Irish)
Hare, David (English) Terence (Roman)
Hauptmann, Gerhart (German) Tourneur, Cyril (English)
Havel, Václav (Czech) Vanbrugh, John (English)
Hellman, Lillian (American) Vega, Lope de (Spanish)
Ibsen, Henrik (Norwegian) Vicente, Gil (Portuguese)
Ionesco, Eugène (French, b. in Romania) Webster, John (English)
Jarry, Alfred (French) Wedekind, Frank (German)
Jonson, Ben (English) Wesker, Arnold (English)
Kaiser, Georg (German) Wilde, Oscar (Irish)
Kaufman, George S. (American) Wilder, Thornton (American)
Kotzebue, August von (German) Williams, Tennessee (American)
Kyd, Thomas (English) Wycherley, William (English)