50 of the Greatest Playwrights

1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
   • Much Ado About Nothing
   • Macbeth
   • Hamlet

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2. Anton Chekov (1860-1904)
   • The Cherry Orchard
   • The Seagull
   • Uncle Vanya

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3. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
   • The School for Scandal
   • The Rivals

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4. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
   • A Doll's House
   • Ghosts
   • The Wild Duck

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5. Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)
   • Tartuffe
   • The Misanthrope

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6. Sophocles (496-406 BC)
   • Oedipius Rex
   • Antigone
   • Electra

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7. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
   • The Glass Menagerie
   • A Streetcar Named Desire
   • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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8. Aristophanes (427-386 BC)
   • Lysistrata
   • The Frogs

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9. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
   • The Importance of Being Earnest
   • A Woman of No Importance

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10. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
   • Pygmalion
   • Man and Superman

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11. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
   • Long Day's Journey Into Night
   • The Iceman Cometh
   • Mourning Becomes Electra

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12. Lorraine Hansbury (1930-1965)
   • A Raisin in the Sun

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13. Neil Simon (1927-2018)
   • The Odd Couple
   • Barefoot in the Park
   • Plaza Suite
   • Biloxi Blues

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14. Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
   • Death of a Salesman
   • The Crucible
   • A View from the Bridge

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15. Aeschylus (524-456 BC)
   • Prometheus Bound
   • Agamemnon
   • The Persians

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16. Noel Coward (1889-1973)
   • Private Lives
   • Blithe Spirit 

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17. Thorton Wilder (1897-1975)
   • Our Town
   • The Matchmaker
   • The Skin of our Teeth

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18. Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
   • The Children's Hour
   • The Little Foxes

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19. Tom Stoppard (1937- )
   • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
   • Night and Day
   • Arcadia

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20. Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
   • The Birthday Party
   • The Dumbwaiter

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21. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
   • The Rover
   • The Young King

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22. T.S. Eliot (1888-1964)
   • Murder in the Cathedral 

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23. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
   • She Stoops to Conquer
   • The Good Natur'd Man

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24. David Mamet (1947- )
   • Glengarry Glen Ross

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25. Alan Bennett (1934- )
   • The History Boys

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26. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
   • The Three Penny Opera

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27. Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)
   • Anatol

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28. Moss Hart (1904-1961)
   • You Can't Take it With You
   • The Man Who Came to Dinner

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29. Sophie Treadwell (1885-1970)
   • Machinal

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30. Sidney Howard (1891-1939)
   • They Knew What They Wanted

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31. Eugene Ionescu (1909-1994)
   • The Bald Soprano

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32. August Wilson (1945-2005)
   • The Piano Lesson
   • Fences

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33. Eric Bogosian (1953- )
   • Talk Radio
   • subUrbia 

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34. Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
   • The Women
   • Kiss the Boys Goodbye

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35. Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
   • Awake and Sing

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36. Howard Lindsey / Russel Crouse (1889-1968/1893-1966)
   • Life with Father

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37. August Strindberg (1849-1912)
   • Miss Julie
   • The Father

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38. Tony Kushner (1956- )
   • Angels in America

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39. Ben Johnson (1572-1637)
   • Volpone 
   • Every Man in His Humour

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40. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
   • Tamburlaine 
   • Doctor Faustus

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41. Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006)
   • The Heidi Chronicles 

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42. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
   • The Ascent of F6

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43. Karel Capek (1890-1938)
   • Rossum's Universal Robots

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44. Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
   • True West

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45. John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
   • The Playboy of the Western World

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46. John Cocteau (1889-1963)
   • The Infernal Machine

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47. Euripedes (480-406 BC)
   • Medea
   • Electra
   • The Trojan Women

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48. Edward Albee (1928-2016)
   • Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
   • The Zoo Story

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49. Katori Hall (1981- )
   • The Mountaintop

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50. David Hare (1947- )
   • Plenty
   • Stuff Happens