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See also

A

Ab-Al

★ George Abbott (1887-1995) (United States)

★ Kjeld Abell (1901-1961) (Denmark)

★ Marcel Achard (1899-1974) (France)

★ Herbert Achternbusch

★ Adam de la Halle (ca. 1237-ca. 1288) (France)

★ Arthur Adamov (1908-1970) (France)

★ Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (England)

★ George Ade (1866-1944) (United States)

★ Aeschylus, (ca. 525 B.C.-456 B.C.) (Greece)

★ Aleksandr Nikolayevich Afinogenov (1904-1941) (Russia)

★ Agathon

★ Demetrio Aguilera-Malta

★ Leopold Ahlsen (born 1927) (Germany)

★ Ama Ata Aidoo

★ Étienne Aignan

★ George L. Aiken (1830-1876) (United States)

★ Zoe Akins

★ Vasily Pavlovich Aksyonov

★ Juan Ruiz de Alarcón y Mendoza

★ Edward Albee (born 1928) (United States)

★ Rafael Alberti (1902-1999) (Spain)

★ James Albery

★ Vasile Alecsandri (1821-1890) (Romania)

★ Alonso Alegría

★ Vittorio Alfieri (1749-1803) (Italy)

★ William Alfred (1922-1999) (United States)

★ Jay Presson Allen (1922-2006) (United States)

★ Alejandro Rodriguez Alvarez {redirect to Alejandro Casona}

★ Serafin and Joaquin Alvarez Quintero [Serafin (1871-1938) and Joaquin (1873-1944)] (Spain)

★ Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik

★ Franco Ambriz Brooklyn, New York

★ Angelo Ambrogini {redirect to Angelo Poliziano}

★ Denis Amiel (1884-1977) (France)

An-As

★ Jane Anderson

★ Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959) (United States)

★ Robert W. Anderson (born 1917) (United States)

★ Jorge Andrade

★ Stefan Andres (1906-1970) (Germany)

★ Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919) (Russia)

★ Lucius Livius Andronicus

★ Innokenty Fyodorovich Annensky (1856-1909) (Russia)

★ Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) (France)

★ S. Ansky (1863-1920) (Russia)
★ Russian language and Yiddish language
★

★ Camillo Antona-Traversi (1857-1934) (Italy)

★ Giannino Antona-Traversi (1860-1939) (Italy)

★ Ludwig Anzengruber (1839-1889) (Austria)

★ Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) (France)

★ Aleksei Nikolaevich Arbuzov (1908-1986) (Russia)

★ Manuel José Arce

★ William Archibald (1924-1970) (United States)

★ John Arden (born 1930) (England)

★ Arthur Arent (1904-1972) (United States)

★ Pietro Aretino (1492-1556) (Italy)

★ Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533) (Italy)

★ Aristophanes, (ca. 446 B.C.-385 B.C.) (Greece)

★ Roberto Arlt

★ Georges Arnaud (1917-1987) (France)

★ Carlos Arniches y Barrera (1866-1943) (Spain)

★ Alexandre Arnoux (1884-1973) (France)

★ Fernando Arrabal (born 1932) (Spain)

★ Francisco Arriví

★ Antón Arrufat

★ Antonin Artaud (1896-1948) (France)

★ Sholem Asch (1880-1957) (Poland/United States)
★ Yiddish language
★

★ Werner Aspenstrom (1918-1997) (Sweden)

Au-Ay

★ Aubignac {redirect to François Hédelin, abbé d'Aubignac}

★ David Auburn (born 1969)

★ W. H. Auden (1907-1973) (England/United States)

★ Jacques Audiberti (1899-1965) (France)

★ Emile Augier (1820-1889) (France)

★ Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko

★ Máximo Avilés-Blonda

★ George Axelrod (1922-2003) (United States)

★ Lilly Axster (1896-1948)

★ Mulat Ayalneh

★ Alan Ayckbourn

★ Philip Ayckbourn

★ Marcel Ayme (1902-1967) (France)

★ Jacob Ayrer

★ Leslie Ayvazian

B

Ba-Bl

★ Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel (1894-1941) (Russia)
★ Russian language and Yiddish language
★

★ Ingeborg Bachmann

★ Giuseppe Baffico (1852-1927) (Italy)

★ Bianca Bagatourian

★ Enid Bagnold

★ Hermann Bahr (1863-1934) (Austria)

★ George Pierce Baker (1866-1935) (United States)

★ John Lloyd Balderston (1889-1954) (United States)

★ James Baldwin (1924-1987) (United States)

★ John Bale (1495-1563) (England)

★ Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) (France)

★ Francisco Antonio Bances y López-Candamo (1662-1704) (Spain)

★ Théodore de Banville (1823-1891) (France)

★ Imamu Amiri Baraka (born 1934) (United States)

★ Girolamo Bargagli (1537-1586) (Italy)

★ Pierre Barillet (born 1923) (France)

★ Howard Barker

★ James Nelson Barker (1784-1858) (United States)

★ Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) (Germany)

★ Peter Barnes

★ J. M. Barrie (1860-1937) (Scotland/England)

★ Jeff Baron

★ Mike Bartlett

★ Philip Barry (1896-1949) (United States)

★ Gabriel Barylli

★ Peter Basch

★ Todd Bash

★ Enrico Bassano (1899-1999) (Italy)

★ Henri Bataille (1872-1922) (France)

★ Wolfgang Bauer

★ L. Frank Baum (1856-1919) (United States)

★ Terry Baum

★ Bahram Bayzaee (Iran)

★ Clifford Bax (1886-1962) (England)

★ Pierre de Beaumarchais (1732-1799) (France)

★ Francis Beaumont (1584/85-1616) (England)

★ Ulrich Becher (1910-1990) (Germany)

★ Frawley Becker (United States)

★ Jürgen Becker

★ Jurek Becker

★ Samuel Beckett (1906-1989) (Ireland)
★ English language and French language
★

★ Henry Becque (1837-1899) (France)

★ Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866-1945) (Austria)

★ Brendan Behan (1923-1964) (Ireland)

★ Aphra Behn (1640-1689) (England)

★ S. N. Behrman (1893-1973) (United States)

★ David Belasco (1853-1931) (United States)

★ Feo Belcari (1410-1484) (Italy)

★ Wendy Belden

★ T. James Belich (pseudonym: Colorado Tolston) (b. 1976) (United States)

★ Jean Bellemère {redirect to Jean Sarment}

★ Luis de Belmonte y Bermúdez (ca. 1590-ca. 1650) (Spain)

★ Jacinto Benavente (1866-1954) (Spain)

★ Sem Benelli (1877-1949) (Italy)

★ Gottfried Benn

★ Alan Bennett

★ Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) (England)

★ Angelo Beolco

★ Hjalmar Bergman (1883-1931) (Sweden)

★ Alan Berks

★ Jean-Jacques Bernard (1888-1972) (France)

★ Tristan Bernard (1866-1947) (France)

★ Jean Bernard-Luc (1909-1985) (France)

★ Henry Bernstein (1876-1953) (France)

★ Georges Berr (1867-1942) (France)

★ Carlo Bertolazzi (1870-1916) (Italy)

★ Kurt Besci (born 1920) (Austria)

★ Rudolph Besier (1878-1942) (England)

★ Lucien Besnard (1872-1955) (France)

★ Ugo Betti (1892-1953) (Italy)

★ Bernardo Dovizio da Bibbiena (1470-1520) (Italy)

★ Isaac Bickerstaffe (1735-1812) (Ireland)

★ Sieur de Bigot {redirect to Jean Palaprat}

★ François Billetdoux (1927-1991) (France)

★ Richard Billinger (1893-1965) (Austria)

★ André Birabeau (1890-1974) (France)

★ Robert Montgomery Bird (1806-1854) (United States)

★ Bjornstjerne Bjornson (1832-1910) (Norway)

★ Lewis Black(United States)

★ August Blanche

★ Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964) (United States)

★ Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Blok (1880-1921) (Russia)

Bo-By

★ Augusto Boal

★ Eric Bogosian

★ George H. Boker (1823-1890) (United States)

★ Robert Bolt (1924-1995) (England)

★ Valentino Bompiani (1898-1992) (Italy)

★ Francesco Augusto Bon (1788-1858) (Italy)

★ Edward Bond

★ Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960) (Italy)

★ Clare Boothe (1903-1987) (United States)

★ Wolfgang Borchert (1921-1947) (Germany)

★ Dion Boucicault (1820/22-1890) (Ireland/United States)

★ Jacques Bouralan {redirect to Jacques Deval}

★ Édouard Bourdet (1887-1945) (France)

★ Edme Boursault (1638-1701) (France)

★ John Bowen

★ Warren Bowles

★ William Boyle (1853-1923) (Ireland)

★ Oskar Braaten

★ Roberto Bracco (1861-1943) (Italy)

★ Suzanne Bradbeer

★ Vitaliano Brancati (1907-1954) (Italy)

★ Thomas Brasch

★ Volker Braun

★ Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) (Germany)

★ Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero (1585-1618)

★ Howard Brenton

★ Manuel Bretón de los Herreros (1796-1873) (Spain)

★ James Bridie (1888-1951) (Scotland)

★ Eugène Brieux (1858-1932) (France)

★ Harold Brighouse (1882-1958) (England)

★ Hermann Broch

★ Max Brod (1884-1968) (Czech Republic/Israel)
★ German language
★

★ Richard Brome (ca. 1590-1652/53) (England)

★ Arnolt Bronnen (1895-1959) (Austria)

★ Kent R. Brown

★ Robert Browning (1812-1889) (England)

★ Ferdinand Bruckner (1891-1958) (Austria)

★ Christine Brückner

★ David-Augustin de Brueys (1640-1723) (France)

★ Nathan Bruhn

★ Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) (Italy)

★ Alfred Brust

★ Georg Büchner (1813-1837) (Germany)

★ Duke of Buckingham {redirect to George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham}

★ Antonio Buero Vallejo (1916-2000) (Spain)

★ Oliver Bukowski

★ Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940) (Russia)

★ Edward Bullins (1935- )(United State)

★ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803-1873) (England)

★ Michelangelo Buonarotti, the Younger (1568-1642) (Italy)

★ Waldfried Burggraf {redirect to Friedrich Forster}

★ John Burkhardt

★ Enrico Annibale Butti (1868-1912) (Italy)

★ George Gordon Byron (1788-1824) (England)

★ Henry James Byron

C

★ Gaston de Caillavet (1869-1915) (France)

★ Hall Caine (1853-1931) (England)

★ Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681) (Spain)

★ Daniel Call

★ Joaquín Calvo-Sotelo (1905-1993) (Spain)

★ Marc Camoletti

★ Bartley Campbell

★ David Campton (born 1924) (England)

★ Albert Camus (1913-1960) (France)

★ Carlos Canales (1955) (Puerto Rico)

★ Elias Canetti

★ Veza Canetti

★ José de Cañizares (1676-1750) (Spain)

★ Cao Yu

★ Karel Čapek (1890-1938) (Czech Republic)

★ Luigi Capuana (1839-1915) (Italy)

★ Alfred Capus (1858-1922) (France)

★ Ion Luca Caragiale (1852-1912) (Romania)

★ Louis Carette {redirect to Félicien Marceau}

★ Annibale Caro (1507-1566) (Italy)

★ Alice Caroline

★ Paul Vincent Carroll (1900-1968) (Ireland/Scotland)

★ Jim Cartwright

★ Alberto Casella (1891-1957) (Italy)

★ Alejandro Casona (1903-1965) (Spain)

★ Guillén de Castro y Bellvís (1569-1631) (Spain)

★ Enrico Cavacchioli (1885-1954) (Italy)

★ Giovan Maria Cecchi (1518-1587) (Italy)

★ Susannah Centlivre (ca. 1667-1723) (England)

★ Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) (Spain)

★ George Chapman (ca. 1560-1634) (England)

★ Charlotte Charke (1713-1760)

★ Mary Coyle Chase (1907-1981) (United States)

★ Klaus Chatten

★ P. J. Chapsky (Thailand)

★ Paddy Chayefsky (1923-1981) (United States)

★ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904) (Russia)

★ Andrew Cherry (1762-1812)

★ Luigi Chiarelli (1880-1947) (Italy)

★ Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) (Japan)

★ Hans Chlumberg (1897-1930) (Austria)

★ Jerome Chodorov (1911-2004) (United States)

★ Agatha Christie

★ David W. Christner

★ Caryl Churchill

★ Colley Cibber (1671-1757) (England)

★ Giovanni Battista Cini (ca. 1525-1586) (Italy)

★ Paul Claudel (1868-1955) (France)

★ Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) (France)

★ Antonio Coello y Ochoa (1611-1652) (Spain)

★ George M. Cohan (1878-1942) (United States)

★ Harry Cohen

★ George Colman the Elder (1732-1794) (England)

★ John Colton (1889-1946) (United States/England)

★ Padraic Colum (1881-1972) (Ireland/United States)

★ William Congreve (1670-1729) (England)

★ Marc Connelly (1890-1980) (United States)

★ Robert Taylor Conrad (1810-1858) (United States)

★ Michael Cook

★ Ray Cooney

★ Romain Coolus (1868-1952) (France)

★ Jacques Copeau (1879-1949) (France)

★ François Coppée (1842-1908) (France)

★ Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) (France)

★ Thomas Corneille (1625-1709) (France)

★ Pietro Cossa (1830-1881) (Italy)

★ Georges Courteline (1858-1929) (France)

★ Noel Coward (1899-1973) (England)

★ Louis O. Coxe (1918-1993) (United States)

★ Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674-1762) (France)

★ Michael Cristofer

★ Francis de Croisset (1877-1937) (France)

★ Fernand Crommelynck (1885-1970) (Belgium/France)
★ French language
★

★ Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) (United States)

★ Russel Crouse (1893-1966) (United States)

★ Mart Crowley (born 1935) (United States)

★ John Crowne (ca. 1640-ca. 1703) (England)

★ Nilo Cruz

★ Ramón de la Cruz (1731-1794) (Spain)

★ Gergely Csíky (1842-1891) (Hungary)

★ Franz Theodor Csokor (1885-1969) (Austria)

★ Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (1596-1661) (Spain)

★ Juan de la Cueva (ca. 1550-1610) (Spain)

★ Richard Cumberland (1732-1811) (England)

★ E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) (United States)

★ François de Curel (1854-1928) (France)

★ Stephen Currens

D

★ Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) (Sweden)

★ George Dalton

★ Augustin Daly (1838-1899) (United States)

★ Florent Carton Dancourt (1661-1725) (France)

★ Clemence Dane (1888-1965) (England)

★ Gabriele D'Annunzio (1863-1938) (Italy)

★ Alphonse Daudet (1840-1897) (France)

★ William Davenant (1606-1668) (England)

★ Robertson Davies (1913-1995) (Canada)

★ Jack Davis (1917-2000) (Australia)

★ Ossie Davis (1917-2005) (United States)

★ Owen Davis (1874-1956) (United States)

★ Roxann Dawson

★ Frederic Lansing Day (1886-1982) (United States}

★ April De Angelis (England)

★ Eduardo De Filippo (1900-1984) (Italy)

★ Thomas Dekker (ca. 1572-1632) (England)

★ Shelagh Delaney (born 1939) (England)

★ Casimir-Jean-François Delavigne (1793-1843) (France)

★ Barbu Delavrancea (1858-1918) (Romania)

★ Giambattista Della Porta (1535-1615) (Italy)

★ Federico Della Valle (ca. 1560-1628) (Italy)

★ Merrill Denison (1893-1975) (Canada)

★ Lucien Descaves (1861-1949) (France)

★ Jean Desmaretz de Saint-Sorlin (1595-1676) (France)

★ Sugathapala de Silva

★ Philippe Néricault Destouches (1680-1754) (France)

★ Jacques Deval (1894-1972) (France)

★ Juan Bautista Diamante (1625-1687) (Spain)

★ Lydia R. Diamond (born 1969) (United States)

★ Joaquín Dicenta y Benedicto (1863-1917) (Spain)

★ Denis Diderot (1713-1784) (France)

★ Steven Dietz

★ Salvatore Di Giacomo (1860-1934) (Italy)

★ Tony DiMurro (United States)

★ Joe diPietro

★ Madge Dishman

★ Ludovico Dolce (1508-ca. 1568) (Italy)

★ Maurice Donnay (1859-1945) (France)

★ Ariel Dorfman

★ Earl of Dorset {redirect to Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset}

★ Tankred Dorst (born 1925) (Germany)

★ Stuart Draper (England)

★ Michael Drayton (1563-1631) (England)

★ Alex Dremann (1966-) (United States)

★ John Drinkwater (1882-1937) (England)

★ John Dryden (1631-1700) (England)

★ Marin Drzic

★ Marcel Dubé (born 1930) (Canada)
★ French language
★

★ Charles Rivière Dufresny (1654-1724) (France)

★ Roger Martin du Gard {redirect to Martin du Gard, Roger}

★ Alexandre Dumas, fils (1824-1895) (France)

★ Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-1870) (France)

★ D Underbelly (United States)

★ William Dunlap (1766-1839) (United States)

★ Marc Dunn

★ Nell Dunn

★ Philip Dunning (1891-1957) (United States)

★ Lord Dunsany (1878-1957) (England/Ireland)

★ Christopher Durang

★ Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) (France)

★ Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921-1990) (Switzerland)
★ German language
★

★ Pierre Du Ryer (1606-1658) (France)

★ Jean Dutourd (born 1920) (France)

★ Henri Duvernois (1875-1937) (France)

E

★ José Echegaray (1832-1916) (Spain)

★ David Edgar

★ Margaret Edson

★ Erik Ehn

★ Günter Eich

★ Baron Joseph von Eichendorff (1788-1857) (Germany)

★ T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) (United States/England)

★ Gundi Ellert

★ Juan del Encina (ca. 1469-1529/30) (Spain)

★ Will Eno

★ Nick Enright

★ Eve Ensler

★ Hans Magnus Enzensberger

★ Brad Erickson

★ Paul Ernst (1866-1933) (Germany)

★ St. John Ervine (1883-1971) (Ireland/England)

★ George Etherege (ca. 1635-1691) (England)

★ Solomon Ettinger (1800/03-1856) (Poland)
★ Hebrew language and Yiddish language
★

★ Euripides (ca. 485 B.C.-ca. 406 B.C.) (Greece)

F

★ Diego Fabbri (1911-1980) (Italy)

★ Émile Fabre (1869-1955) (France)

★ Michael Fackelmann

★ George Farquhar (1677/8-1707) (England)

★ Rainer Werner Fassbinder

★ René Fauchois (1882-1962) (France)

★ Todd Faulkenberry (1928-1993)

★ Jules Feiffer (born 1929) (United States)

★ Ludwig Fels

★ Dan Fenton

★ Edna Ferber (1887-1968) (United States)

★ Roger Ferdinand {redirect to Roger-Ferdinand}

★ Lucas Fernández (1474-1542) (Spain)

★ Luis Fernández Ardavín (1891-1962) (Spain)

★ Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828) (Spain)

★ Nicolás Fernández de Moratín (1737-1780) (Spain)

★ Bob Jude Ferrante (1959-) (United States)

★ Paolo Ferrari (1822-1889) (Italy)

★ Leo Ferrero (1903-1933) (Italy)

★ Lion Feuchtwanger (1884-1958) (Germany)

★ Georges Feydeau (1862-1921) (France)

★ Nathan Field

★ Henry Fielding (1707-1754) (England)

★ Joseph Fields (1895-1966) (United States)

★ Clyde Fitch (1865-1909) (United States)

★ George Fitzmaurice (1877-1963) (Ireland)

★ Gustave Flaubert

★ Martin Flavin (1883-1967) (United States)

★ James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) (England)

★ Marieluise Fleisser

★ Justin Fleming

★ Robert de Flers (1872-1927) (France)

★ John Fletcher (1579-1625) (England)

★ Lucille Fletcher

★ Dario Fo

★ Antonio Fogazzaro (1842-1911) (Italy)

★ Rick Fonté

★ Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1744/5-1792) (Russia)

★ Horton Foote

★ Samuel Foote (1720-1777) (England)

★ John Ford (ca. 1586-after 1639) (England)

★ Maria Irene Fornes

★ Lars Forssell (born 1928) (Sweden)

★ Friedrich Forster (1895-1958) (Germany)

★ Ugo Foscolo (1778-1827) (Italy)

★ Amy Fox (1975-present) (United States)

★ Bruno Frank (1887-1945) (Germany)

★ Leonhard Frank (1882-1961) (Germany/United States)

★ Ian Fraser (South Africa/United States)

★ Michael Frayn

★ Aleksander Fredro (1793-1876) (Poland)

★ David French

★ Gustav Freytag (1816-1895) (Germany)

★ Erich Fried

★ Alan Foster Friedman

★ Bruce Jay Friedman (born 1930) (United States)

★ Brian Friel (born 1929) (Ireland)

★ Ketti Frings (1909-1981) (United States)

★ Max Frisch (1911-1991) (Switzerland)

★ Christopher Fry (1907-2005) (England)

★ Franz Fuehmann

★ Athol Fugard

★ Ulpian Fulwell (1545/6 - 1584/5/6)

★ Derek Alan Fuzzell (born 1985) (United States)

G

★ Jeremy Gable (born 1982) (United States)

★ Christoph Gahl

★ Zona Gale (1874-1938) (United States)

★ Ferdinando Galiani (1728-1787) (Italy)

★ John Galsworthy (1867-1933) (England)

★ Simon Gantillon (1887-1961) (France)

★ Vicente Antonio García de la Huerta (1734-1787) (Spain)

★ Antonio García Gutiérrez (1813-1884) (Spain)

★ Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) (Spain)

★ Robert Garnier (1544-1590) (France)

★ David Garrick (1717-1779) (England)

★ George Gascoigne (1535-1577) (England)

★ Armand Gatti (born 1924) (France)

★ Natalie Gaupp (born 1967) (United States)

★ John Gay (1685-1732) (England)

★ Michael V. Gazzo (1923-1995) (United States)

★ Jack Gelber (1932-2003) (United States)

★ Gratien Gélinas (1909-1999) (Canada)
★ French language
★

★ Jean Genet (1910-1986) (France)

★ Paul Géraldy (1885-1983) (France)

★ Katharina Gericke

★ Esther Gerritsen

★ Joel Gersmann (1942-2005) (United States)

★ Alice Gerstenberg

★ Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg (1737-1823) (Germany)

★ Landen Gessell

★ Elke Geurts (born 1973) (Netherlands)

★ Michel de Ghelderode (1898-1962) (Belgium)
★ French language
★

★ Henri Ghéon (1875-1944) (France)

★ Gherardo Gherardi (1891-1949) (Italy)

★ Paolo Giacometti (1816-1882) (Italy)

★ Giuseppe Giacosa (1847-1906) (Italy)

★ Gigio Artemio Giancarli (ca. 1500-1550) (Italy)

★ Donato Giannotti (1492-1573) (Italy)

★ William Gibson (born 1914) (United States)

★ David Gieselmann

★ Kathie Lee Gifford

★ W. S. Gilbert (1836-1911) (England)

★ William Gillette (1855-1937) (United States)

★ Frank D. Gilroy (born 1925) (United States)

★ Antonio Gil y Zárate (1793-1861) (Spain)

★ José Antonio Giménez Arnau y Gran (1912-1985) (Spain)

★ Jean Giono (1895-1970) (France)

★ Silvio Giovaninetti (1901-1959) (Italy)

★ Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio (1504-1573) (Italy)

★ Giovanni Giraud (1776-1834) (Italy)

★ Jean Giraudoux (1882-1944) (France)

★ Vincenzo Giusti (1532-1619) (Italy)

★ Susan Glaspell (1882-1948) (United States)

★ John Godber

★ Kermi Goell

★ Reinhard Goering (1887-1936) (Germany)

★ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) (Germany)

★ Ruth and Augustus Goetz

★ Curt Goetz (1888-1960) (Germany)

★ Nikolay Vasilyevich Gogol (1809-1852) (Russia)

★ Abraham Haim Lipke Goldfaden (1840-1908) (Russia/United States)
★ Hebrew language and Yiddish language
★

★ James Goldman (1927-1998) (United States)

★ Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) (Italy)

★ Oliver Goldsmith (1728/30-1774) (England)

★ Ivan Goll

★ Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969) (Poland/Argentina)
★ Polish language
★

★ Jules Eckert Goodman (1876-1962) (United States)

★ Frances Goodrich (1890-1984) (United States)

★ Jacob Gordin (1853-1909) (Ukraine/United States)
★ Russian language and Yiddish language
★

★ Ruth Gordon

★ Charles Gordone (1925-1995) (United States)

★ Maxim Gorky (1868-1936) (Russia)

★ Abraham Dov Ber Gottlober (1811-1899) (Russia)
★ Hebrew language and Yiddish language
★

★ Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700-1766) (Germany)

★ Olympe de Gouges

★ David Gow (1964 - ) (Canada, Quebec)

★ Carlo Gozzi (1720-1806) (Italy)

★ Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801-1836) (Germany)

★ Ed Graczyk

★ Duncan Graham (Australia)

★ David Marshall Grant

★ Marsha L. Grant

★ Harley Granville-Barker (1877-1946) (England)

★ Jörg Graser

★ Günter Grass (born 1927) (Germany)

★ Jacinto Grau Delgado (1877-1958) (Spain)

★ Simon Gray

★ Anton Francesco Grazzini (1503-1584) (Italy)

★ Jean-Pierre Grédy (born 1920) (France)

★ Julien Green (1900-1998) (France/United States)
★ French language
★

★ Paul Green (1894-1981) (United States)

★ Richard Greenberg

★ Graham Greene (1904-1991) (England)

★ Robert Greene (1558-1592) (England)

★ Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) (Ireland)

★ David Greig (Scotland)

★ Jean-Baptiste Louis Gresset (1709-1777) (France)

★ Tom Griffin

★ Trevor Griffiths

★ Franz Grillparzer

★ Alan Gross

★ Jim Grover

★ Andreas Gryphius

★ John Guare (1938- ) (United States)

★ Sacha Guitry

★ A.R. Gurney

★ Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow

H

★ Peter Hacks

★ Ruth Hale

★ Peter Handke

★ William Hanley

★ Lorraine Hansberry

★ Haseena Moin (b. 1941) - Pakistan

★ Ernst Hardt

★ David Hare

★ Moss Hart

★ Fred Harvey

★ Jonathan Harvey

★ Walter Hasenclever

★ Jeffrey Hatcher

★ Gerhart Hauptmann

★ Václav Havel

★ Friedrich Hebbel

★ Lillian Hellman

★ Beth Henley

★ Nigel Heseltine

★ Dorothy Hewett

★ John Heywood(c.1497-c.1580)

★ Wolfgang Hildesheimer

★ Shawn Hirabayashi

★ Prince Hoare

★ Rolf Hochhuth

★ Fritz Hochwaelder

★ Hugo von Hofmannsthal

★ Darcy Hogan

★ Ludvig Holberg

★ Michael Hollinger

★ Rupert Holmes

★ Ödön von Horváth

★ Sidney Howard

★ Tina Howe

★ John-Michael Howson

★ Hroswitha of Gandersheim

★ Dusty Hughes

★ Langston Hughes

★ Victor Hugo

★ Maureen Hunter

I

★ Henrik Ibsen

★ Almir Imsirevic

★ William Inge

★ Eugène Ionesco

★ Roger Iverson

★ David Ives

J

★ Alfred Jarry

★ Elfriede Jelinek

★ Douglas William Jerrold

★ Christopher John (Australia)

★ Terry Johnson

★ Denis Johnston

★ Ben Jonson

★ James Joyce

K

★ Georg Kaiser

★ Kalidasa

★ Sarah Kane

★ Girish Karnad

★ George S. Kaufman

★ Moisés Kaufman

★ John B. Keane

★ Joseph Kesselring

★ Thomas Kilroy

★ Sidney Kingsley

★ Heinrich von Kleist

★ Friedrich Maximilian Klinger

★ Václav Kliment Klicpera

★ Alexander Kluge

★ Frederick Knott

★ Karl König

★ Bernard Kops

★ Allan Stewart Konigsberg

★ Oskar Kokoschka

★ August von Kotzebue

★ Karl Kraus

★ Helmut Krausser

★ Franz Xaver Kroetz

★ Nestor Kukolnik

★ Rick Kunzi

★ Hanif Kureishi

★ Tony Kushner

★ Thomas Kyd

L

★ Neil LaBute

★ Jonathon Larson

★ Else Lasker-Schüler

★ Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

★ Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

★ Reinhard Lettau

★ Ira Levin

★ Saunders Lewis

★ Nell Leyshon

★ David Lindsay-Abaire

★ Romulus Linney

★ Kenneth Lonergan

★ Stephen Lowe

★ Craig Lucas

★ Clare Boothe Luce

★ Charles Ludlam

★ Ken Ludwig

★ Otto Ludwig

M

★ Ewan MacColl

★ Michael MacLennan

★ Wendy MacLeod

★ George Macropedius, (1487-1558)

★ Ellen McLaughlin

★ Carlo Maria Maggi, (Italy)
★ Insubric language
★

★ Monica Malek-Yonan

★ Rosie Malek-Yonan

★ David Mamet, (born 1947)

★ Klaus Mann

★ William Marchant, (United States), (1923-1995)

★ Donald Margulies

★ Pierre de Marivaux

★ Christopher Marlowe, (1564-1593)

★ William Somerset Maugham

★ Vladimir Mayakovsky

★ Marius von Mayenburg

★ Martin McDonagh, (born 1970)

★ Frank McGuinness

★ Sally McLean

★ Terrence McNally, (born 1939)

★ Mark Medoff

★ Charles L. Mee

★ Menander

★ David Mercer

★ Thomas Middleton

★ Arthur Miller, (1915-2005)

★ Willy Millowitsch

★ Octave Mirbeau (1848-1917)

★ Molière, (1622-1673)

★ Jose Zorrilla y Moral

★ Félix Morisseau-Leroy (Moriso Lewa), (1912-1998)

★ Melvyn Morrow

★ John Mortimer

★ Itamar Moses

★ Dimitrios Mpogris , ( Greece ) , ( 1890 - 1964 )

★ Sean Muir

★ Heiner Müller

★ Kaj Munk

★ Tommy Murphy

★ Robert Musil

★ Mohan Rakesh

N

★ Richard Nelson

★ Johann Nestroy

★ Anthony Neilson

★ Peter Nichols

★ William Nicholson

★ Marsha Norman

★ Lynn Nottage

O

★ Dan O'Brien

★ Michael O'Brien

★ Sean O'Casey

★ Eugene O'Neill

★ Gerlinde Obermeier

★ Clifford Odets

★ Han Ong

★ Joe Orton

★ John Osborne

★ Peter Oswald

P

★ Suzan-Lori Parks

★ Angelo Parra

★ John Patrick

★ Tyler Perry

★ Arthur Wing Pinero

★ Harold Pinter

★ Luigi Pirandello

★ Plautus

★ Ulrich Plenzdorf

★ Sharon Pollock

★ Will Power

★ Stanisław Przybyszewski (1868-1927) (Poland)

★ J. B. Priestley

★ Alexander Pushkin

★ Ariel Pytrell

Q

★ Philippe Quinault (1635-1688) (France)

R

★ David Rabe

★ Jean Racine

★ Ferdinand Raimund

★ Jonathan Rand

★ Adam Rapp

★ Lutz Rathenow

★ Terence Rattigan

★ James Reaney

★ Yasmina Reza

★ Erwin Riess

★ Lawrence Riley

★ Rainer Maria Rilke

★ Lennox Robinson

★ Jack Rosenthal

★ Kenneth G. Ross

★ Edmond Rostand

★ Friederike Roth

★ David Rudkin

★ Paul Rudnick

★ Sarah Ruhl

★ Willy Russell

S

Sa-Se

★ Partap Sharma

★ Hans Sachs

★ Nelly Sachs

★ Florencio Sánchez

★ William Saroyan

★ Jean-Paul Sartre

★ Friedrich Schiller

★ Arno Schmidt

★ Ron Schnitzius

★ Arthur Schnitzler

★ Werner Schwab

★ Robert Schenkkan

★ David Sedaris

★ Seneca the Younger

★ Kenneth Jarrett Singleton

Sg-Sr

★ Anthony Shaffer

★ Peter Shaffer, (born 1926)

★ William Shakespeare, (1564-1616)

★ Ntozake Shange

★ John Patrick Shanley

★ George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

★ Wallace Shawn (born 1943)

★ Rob Shearman

★ Edward Sheldon

★ Jane Shepard (born 1958)

★ Sam Shepard (born 1943)

★ Richard Brinsley Sheridan

★ Jonathan Marc Sherman

★ R. C. Sherriff

★ Robert E. Sherwood

★ George Shiels

★ Del Shores

★ Larry Shue

★ Neil Simon

★ Bernard Slade

★ Anna Deavere Smith

★ Charles Smith

★ Sophocles

★ Aaron Sorkin

★ Wole Soyinka

★ Ron Sparks

★ Biljana Srbljanović

St-Sz

★ Michael J Starr

★ Shelagh Stephenson

★ Tom Stoppard

★ David Storey

★ August Stramm

★ Botho Strauß

★ August Strindberg

★ Preston Sturges

★ Patrick Süskind

★ Alfred Sutro

★ Caridad Svich

★ Jeffrey Sweet

★ John Millington Synge

T

★ George Tabori

★ Steven Talbot

★ Jean Tardieu

★ Henry Taylor

★ Bernard J. Taylor

★ Samuel Taylor

★ Vijay Tendulkar

★ Terence

★ Tian Han

★ Ernest Thompson (b. 1949) (United States)

★ Judith Thompson

★ Ludwig Tieck

★ Ernst Toller

★ Colorado Tolston, pseudonym of T. James Belich (b. 1976) (United States)

★ Bartolomé de Torres Naharro

★ Miles Tredinnick

★ Kurt Tucholsky

U

★ Nicholas Udall

★ Alfred Uhry

★ Orl Unho

★ Rodolfo Usigli

V

★ Alexander Vampilov

★ John Vanbrugh

★ John William Van Druten

★ Billy Van Zandt

★ Gil Vicente

★ Paula Vogel

★ Carlos von Son

W

★ Heinrich Leopold Wagner

★ Derek Walcott

★ Craig Walker

★ George F. Walker

★ Naomi Wallace

★ Martin Walser

★ Robert Walser

★ Agnes Walsh

★ Saadallah Wannous, (Syria), (1941-1997)

★ Dale Wasserman

★ Wendy Wasserstein

★ Keith Waterhouse

★ John Webster

★ Frank Wedekind

★ Peter Weiss

★ Edward Crosby Wells

★ Franz Werfel

★ Timberlake Wertenbaker

★ Arnold Wesker

★ Peter Whelan

★ John Whiting

★ Adolf von Wilbrandt

★ Oscar Wilde

★ Thornton Wilder

★ Emlyn Williams

★ Tennessee Williams

★ David Williamson (b. 1942) (Australia)

★ August Wilson

★ Lanford Wilson

★ Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz {Witkacy} (1885-1939) (Poland)

★ William Wycherley

★ Charles Wood

Y

★ William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) (Ireland)

★ Benjamin Yeoh (born 1978)

★ Chay Yew

Z

★ Gabriela Zapolska (1860-1921) (Poland)

★ Paul Zindel (1936-2003) (United States)

★ Émile Zola (1840-1902) (France)

★ José Zorrilla (1817-1893) (Spain)

★ Carl Zuckmayer (1896-1977) (Germany/United States/Austria)

★ Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) (Austria)

★ Zillur Rahman John (1959- ) [Bangladesh, Canada]

See also

★ List of Bosnian playwrights

★ List of British playwrights since 1950

★ List of Canadian playwrights

★ List of French playwrights

★ List of German playwrights

★ List of Irish dramatists

★ List of Irish playwrights

★ List of Jewish American playwrights

★ List of Slovenian playwrights

★ List of playwrights from the United States

★ List of early-modern women playwrights (UK)