List of playwrights
List of notable playwrights.
See also Literature, Drama, List of Irish dramatists
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A
- Herbert Achternbusch
- Arthur Adamov, (1908-1970)
- Aeschylus, (525-456)
- Ilse Aichinger
- Étienne Aignan
- Edward Albee,(born 1928)
- Jane Anderson
- Jean Anouilh
- Ludwig Anzengruber
- John Arden
- Aristophanes, (446-385)
- Fernando Arrabal
- Antonin Artaud
- David Auburn, (born 1969)
- Lilly Axster, (1896-1948)
- Alan Ayckbourn
B
Ba-Bl
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Howard Barker
- Ernst Barlach
- Peter Barnes
- J. M. Barrie
- Philip Barry
- Gabriel Barylli
- Wolfgang Bauer
- Terry Baum
- Pierre Beaumarchais
- Francis Beaumont
- Ulrich Becher
- Jürgen Becker
- Jurek Becker
- Samuel Beckett
- Max Beckmann
- Brendan Behan
- Gottfried Benn
- August Blanche
Bo-Bu
- Augusto Boal
- Eric Bogosian
- Robert Bolt
- Wolfgang Borchert
- Dion Boucicault
- John Bowen
- Thomas Brasch
- Volker Braun
- Bertolt Brecht
- Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618), Dutch playwright and poet
- Hermann Broch
- Ferdinand Bruckner
- Christine Brückner
- Alfred Brust
- Georg Büchner
- Oliver Bukowski
- Henry James Byron
C
- Daniel Call
- Elias Canetti
- Veza Canetti
- Cao Yu
- Karel Čapek
- Ion Luca Caragiale
- Paul Vincent Carroll
- George Chapman
- Klaus Chatten
- Anton Chekhov
- Andrew Cherry (1762 - 1812)
- Agatha Christie
- Caryl Churchill
- Jean Cocteau
- Pierre Corneille
- Georges Courteline
- Noel Coward
- Nilo Cruz
D
- Thomas Dekker
- Ariel Dorfman
- Tankred Dorst
- Alexandre Dumas fils
- Nell Dunn
- Christopher Durang
- Friedrich Dürrenmatt
E
- David Edgar
- Günter Eich
- T. S. Eliot
- Gundi Ellert
- Hans Magnus Enzensberger
- Euripides
F
- Michael Fackelmann
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Jules Feiffer
- Gustave Flaubert
- Ludwig Fels
- Leandro Fernández de Moratín
- Nathaniel Field
- Marieluise Fleisser
- John Fletcher
- Dario Fo
- Horton Foote
- Michael Frayn
- David French
- Gustav Freytag
- Erich Fried
- Brian Friel
- Max Frisch
- Franz Fuehmann
- Athol Fugard
G
- Jeremy Gable
- Christoph Gahl
- John Galsworthy
- Jean Genet
- Katharina Gericke
- David Gieselmann
- William S. Gilbert
- Jean Giraudoux
- John Godber
- Kermi Goell
- Reinhard Goering
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Carlo Goldoni
- Ivan Goll
- Olympe de Gouges
- Christian Dietrich Grabbe
- Harley Granville Barker
- Jörg Graser
- Günter Grass
- Simon Gray
- Lady Gregory
- Trevor Griffiths
- Franz Grillparzer
- Jim Grover (http://www.nakedtheatre.co.uk)
- Andreas Gryphius
- Sacha Guitry
- A.R. Gurney
- Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow
H
- Peter Hacks
- Max Halbe
- Peter Handke
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Ernst Hardt
- David Hare
- Walter Hasenclever
- Carl Hauptmann
- Gerhart Hauptmann
- Horst Hawemann
- Friedrich Hebbel
- Christoph Hein
- Lillian Hellman
- Heinrich Henkel
- Günter Herburger
- Rudolf Herfurtner
- Dorothy Hewett
- Wolfgang Hildesheimer
- Prince Hoare
- Rolf Hochhuth
- Fritz Hochwaelder
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal
- Ludvig Holberg
- Ödön von Horváth
- Sidney Howard
- Hroswitha of Gandersheim
- Dusty Hughes
I
J
- Günter Jankowiak
- Alfred Jarry
- Elfriede Jelinek
- Douglas Jerrold
- Denis Johnston
- Thomas Jonigk
- Ben Jonson
K
- Georg Kaiser
- Sarah Kane
- Manfred Karge
- George S. Kaufman
- John B. Keane
- Bernhard Kellermann
- Joseph Kesselring
- Thomas Kilroy
- Heinar Kipphardt
- Harald Kislinger
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Friedrich Maximilian Klinger
- Václav Kliment Klicpera
- Alexander Kluge
- Gerd Knappe
- Werner R. Koefler
- Karl König
- Oskar Kokoschka
- August von Kotzebue
- Karl Kraus
- Helmut Krausser
- Margret Kreidl
- Franz Xaver Kroetz
- Tony Kushner
- Fitzgerald Kusz
- Thomas Kyd
L
- Neil LaBute
- Anna Langhoff
- Else Lasker-Schüler
- Carl Laszlo
- Rolf Lauckner
- Johann Anton Leisewitz
- Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- Reinhard Lettau
- Nell Leyshon
- Henry Livings
- Daniel C. Lohenstein
- Dea Loher
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Craig Lucas
- Charles Ludlam
- Otto Ludwig
M
- Michael MacLennan
- David Mamet
- Klaus Mann
- Andreas Marber
- Pierre de Marivaux
- Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593)
- Christian Martin
- William Somerset Maugham
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Marius von Mayenburg
- Martin McDonagh
- Terrence McNally
- Charles L. Mee
- Menander
- David Mercer
- Thomas Middleton
- Arthur Miller, (born 1915)
- Willy Millowitsch
- Felix Mitterer
- Molière, (1622-1673)
- M. J. Molloy
- Jose Zorrilla y Moral
- John Mortimer
- Karl O. Mühl
- Elfriede Müller
- Harald Müller
- Heiner Müller
- Kaj Munk
- Robert Musil
N
- Johann Nestroy
- Peter Nichols
- Marsha Norman
O
- Sean O'Casey
- Eugene O'Neill
- Gerlinde Obermeier
- Clifford Odets
- Joe Orton
- John Osborne
- Albert Ostermaier
P
- Suzan-Lori Parks
- Angelo Parra
- Helmut Peschina
- Carlo Pietzner
- Arthur Wing Pinero
- Winsome Pinnock
- Harold Pinter
- Luigi Pirandello
- Plautus
- Ulrich Plenzdorf
- Klaus Pohl
- Alf Poss
- Peter Preses
- J. B. Priestley
Q
- (none listed)
R
- Jean Racine
- Ferdinand Raimund
- Lutz Rathenow
- Terence Rattigan
- Paul Rebhun
- Gerlind Reinshagen
- Erwin Riess
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Moritz Rinke
- Lennox Robinson
- Michaela Ronzoni
- Jack Rosenthal
- Friederike Roth
- Eugen Ruge
- Willy Russell
S
Sa-Se
- Hans Sachs
- Nelly Sachs
- William Saroyan
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Peter Sattmann
- Friedrich Schiller
- Roland Schimmelpfennig
- Einar Schleef
- Johannes E. Schlegel
- Horst Schloetelburg
- Arno Schmidt
- Simone Schneider
- Arthur Schnitzler
- Manuel Schöbel
- Karl Schoenherr
- Lothar Schreyer
- Stefan Schütz
- Werner Schwab
- Brigitte Schwaiger
- Robert Schenkkan
- Georg Seidel
Sh-Sp
- Anthony Shaffer
- Peter Shaffer, (born 1926)
- William Shakespeare, (1564-1616)
- John Patrick Shanley
- George Bernard Shaw, (1856-1950)
- Rob Shearman
- Sam Shepard, (born 1943)
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- Robert E. Sherwood
- George Shiels
- Larry Shue
- Neil Simon
- Geoffrey Skelton
- Anna Deavere Smith
- Sophocles
- Reinhard Sorge
- Wole Soyinka
- Kerstin Specht
- Martin Sperr
- Arthur Symington (1931-1995)
St-Sz
- Ginka Steinwachs
- Carl Sternheim
- Tom Stoppard
- David Storey
- August Stramm
- Botho Strauß
- Marlene Streeruwitz
- August Strindberg
- Thomas Strittmatter
- Preston Sturges
- Patrick Süskind
- Alfred Sutro
- Erwin Sylvanus
- John Millington Synge
- Gerarld Szyszkowitz
T
- George Tabori
- Jean Tardieu
- Henry Taylor
- Terence
- Tian Han
- Ludwig Tieck
- Ernst Toller
- Colorado Tolston
- Kurt Tucholsky
- Peter Turrini
U
V
W
- Friedrich K. Waechter
- Heinrich Leopold Wagner
- Naomi Wallace
- Martin Walser
- Robert Walser
- Theresia Walser
- Wendy Wasserstein
- Keith Waterhouse
- John Webster
- Frank Wedekind
- Peter Weiss
- Theodor Weissenborn
- Franz Werfel
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Arnold Wesker
- Urs Widmer
- Hubert Wiedfeld
- Adolf von Wilbrandt
- Oscar Wilde
- Thornton Wilder
- Emlyn Williams
- Tennessee Williams
- August Wilson
- Lanford Wilson
- William Wycherley
X
- (none listed)
Y
- William Butler Yeats, (1865-1939)
Z
- Ingeborg von Zadow
- Matthias Zschokke
- Carl Zuckmayer
- Stefan Zweig, (1881-1942)
See also
- Lists of authors
- List of American playwrights
- List of British playwrights
- List of British playwrights since 1950
- List of Canadian playwrights
- List of French playwrights
- List of German playwrights
- List of Irish playwrights
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