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Famous Playwrights
Playwrights
| Boigraphy | Person |
|---|---|
| He was an older contemporary of Euripides, was born 497/496 b.c.e. at Colonus outside Athens. He worked on Oedipus the King, Electra, and Philoctetes. | Sophacles |
| One of the ancient tragedians of Athens. Has around 95 works which include: Medea, The Bacchae, Helen, and The Trojan Women 484-40^BCE. | Euripidies |
| Ancient Greek Tragedian, described as the father of tragedy. His works include: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, and The Suppliants. 525-456BCE | Aeschylus |
| Son of Philippus, of the deme Kydathenaion, was a comedic playwright in Athens. Works include: including The Clouds, The Wasps, The Birds, Lysistrata, and The Frogs. 444-386BCE | Aristophanes |
| Ancient tragic poet whos works have been lost. He is best known for his appearance in Plato's Symposium. 448-400BCE | Agathon |
| English playwright, poet and actor. Often considered England's greatest playwright. Works include: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III. ?-1616 | Shakesphere |
| Was an American playwright, essayist and screenwriter. His most popular plays are All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, and A View from the Bridge. His most well known screenwriting is The Misfits. 1915-2005 | Arthur Miller |
| Irish novelist, dramatist, short story writer, theatre director, poet, and literary translator. His work is characterised by a unoptimistic and tragicomic take on life. His works include: Waiting for Godot, Endgame and, Happy Days. 1906-1989 | Samuel Beckett |
| Was an American playwright and screenwriter. He is thought as one of the most important playwrights of the century. Works Include: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. 1911-1983 | Tennessee Williams |
| Was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, he is often referred to as "the father of realism" Works include:Puphejmo, Hedda Gabler, and Ghosts. 1828-1906. | Henrik Ibsen |
| Was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. Works include: Pygmalion, Man and Superman, and Mrs. Warren's Profession. 1856-1950 | George Bernard Shaw |
| Was a Russian playwright and short-story writer who is considered to be one of the greatest writers of all time. His career as a playwright produced four classics. Works include: The Cherry Orchard,The Seagull and, Uncle Vanya. 1860-1904 | Anton Chekhov |
| Was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in literature. He introduced realism to the U.S. His works include: A Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh, and A Moon for the Misbegotten. 1888-1953 | Eugene O'Neill |
| Was an American playwright, screenwriter and author. He wrote more than 30 plays and nearly the same number of movie screenplays. His works include: The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Biloxi Blues, and Rumors. 1927-2018. | Neil Simon |
| Was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. Works include: The Importance of Being Earnest, The Canterville Ghost, and Salome. 1854-1900. | Oscar Wilde |
| Was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Works include: Mother Courage and Her Children, Baal, In The Jungle Of Cities and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. 1898-1956 | Bertolt Brecht |
| He has been referred to as the poet of Black America". He is best known for a series of ten plays, collectively called The Pittsburgh Cycle, which chronicle the experiences and heritage of the African-American community in the 20th century. 1945-2005 | August Wilson |
| American playwright, filmmaker, and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays. Works include: Oleanna, American Buffalo, Glengarry Glen Ross, Race, and Speed-the-Plow. | David Mamet |
| Was an English playwright, poet and translator of the Elizabethan era. he is among the most famous of the Elizabethan playwrights. Works Include: Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, and Dido, Queen of Carthage. 1564-1593 | Christopher Marlowe |
| Was an English playwright and poet. His artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. Works Include: Volpone, The Alchemist, Every Man in His Humour, Bartholomew Fair, and A Tale of a Tub. 1572-1637 | Ben Jonson |
| Was a British playwright, screenwriter, director and actor. A Nobel Prize winner,one of the most influential modern writers. His career lasted 50 years. Works Include:The Birthday Party, The Caretaker, Betrayal, and The Homecoming. 1930-2008 | Harold Pinter |
| Was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour. Works Include: Faust, Egmont. 1749-1832 | Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe. |
| Was an English playwright, screenwriter and theatre director. Works Include: Blasted, Cleanse, Crave, 4.48 Psychosis, and Phaedra's Love. 1971-1999 | Sarah Kane |
| Was an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day. 1897-1975 | Thornton Wilder |
| Was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. Works Include: Yerma, The House of Bernarda Alba, and Blood Wedding. 1898-1936 | Federico García Lorca |
| Was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language. He is best known for his novel Don Quixote, a work often cited as both the first modern novel and one of the pinnacles of world literature | Miguel de Cervantes |
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