The People
Playwrights
From the ancient Greek tragedians to the early Modernists — every author whose work appears in our archive.
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Anonymous
1 script · dates unknown
William Archer
1 script · 1856–1924
Aristophanes
8 scripts · -447–-386
Robert Arnot
1 script · b. 1860
Delia Salter Bacon
1 script · 1811–1859
Honoré de Balzac
3 scripts · 1799–1850
John Kendrick Bangs
1 script · 1862–1922
Monsieur (Michel) Baron
1 script · 1653–1729
J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
11 scripts · 1860–1937
Lewis Beach
1 script · 1891–1947
Francis Beaumont
5 scripts · 1584–1616
Aphra Behn
2 scripts · 1640–1689
Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
2 scripts · 1832–1910
Wilton W. (Wilton Wallace) Blancké
1 script · 1884–1949
Harold Brighouse
1 script · 1882–1958
Robert Browning
1 script · 1812–1889
A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
4 scripts · 1857–1920
James Branch Cabell
1 script · 1879–1958
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
4 scripts · 1600–1681
Dion Clayton Calthrop
1 script · 1878–1937
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
5 scripts · 1860–1904
Winston Churchill
1 script · 1871–1947
William Congreve
4 scripts · 1670–1729
Pierre Corneille
2 scripts · 1606–1684
Sarah Anne Curzon
1 script · 1833–1898
Marvin Dana
1 script · 1867–1926
Richard Harding Davis
1 script · 1864–1916
Floyd Dell
1 script · 1887–1969
Néricault Destouches
1 script · 1680–1754
Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli
1 script · 1804–1881
Robert Dodsley
6 scripts · 1703–1764
J. Donkersley
1 script · dates unknown
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1 script · 1821–1881
Ernest Christopher Dowson
1 script · 1867–1900
John Drinkwater
1 script · 1882–1937
John Dryden
1 script · 1631–1700
Charles Rivière Dufresny
4 scripts · 1657–1724
Lord Dunsany
2 scripts · 1878–1957
Euripides
10 scripts · -481–-407
Jacob Feis
1 script · 1842–1900
Ernest Fenollosa
1 script · 1853–1908
Henry Fielding
1 script · 1707–1754
James Elroy Flecker
1 script · 1884–1915
John Fletcher
4 scripts · 1579–1625
Kuno Francke
3 scripts · 1855–1930
William Henry Frost
1 script · 1863–1902
John Galsworthy
25 scripts · 1867–1933
John Gay
1 script · 1685–1732
Susan Glaspell
1 script · 1882–1948
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6 scripts · 1749–1832
Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
1 script · 1809–1852
Oliver Goldsmith
1 script · 1730–1774
Manuel Eduardo de Gorostiza
1 script · 1789–1851
Charles Gounod
1 script · 1818–1893
W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg
1 script · 1875–1959
Lady Gregory
1 script · 1852–1932
Guðmundur Kamban
1 script · 1888–1945
Thomas Hardy
1 script · 1840–1928
Bret Harte
1 script · 1836–1902
Gerhart Hauptmann
2 scripts · 1862–1946
William Hazlitt
1 script · 1778–1830
William Ernest Henley
1 script · 1849–1903
Ludvig Holberg
1 script · 1684–1754
Laurence Housman
1 script · 1865–1959
Gorges Edmond Howard
1 script · 1715–1786
William Dean Howells
5 scripts · 1837–1920
Oliver Huckel
1 script · 1864–1940
Henrik Ibsen
19 scripts · 1828–1906
George Iles
1 script · 1852–1942
Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
2 scripts · 1859–1927
Ben Jonson
11 scripts · 1573–1637
Charles Rann Kennedy
1 script · 1871–1950
Charles Kingsley
2 scripts · 1819–1875
James Sheridan Knowles
2 scripts · 1784–1862
August von Kotzebue
1 script · 1761–1819
Thomas Kyd
1 script · 1558–1594
Kālidāsa
1 script · dates unknown
Charles Lamb
2 scripts · 1775–1834
Walter Savage Landor
2 scripts · 1775–1864
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
1 script · 1885–1930
Alain René Le Sage
1 script · 1668–1747
Georgette Leblanc
1 script · 1869–1941
Sterling Andrus Leonard
1 script · 1888–1931
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
2 scripts · 1729–1781
B. Roland (Benjamin Roland) Lewis
1 script · b. 1884
John Lydgate
1 script · 1370–1451
Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
1 script · 1803–1873
Mary Macleod
1 script · 1860–1914
Maurice Maeterlinck
7 scripts · 1862–1949
Charles Mair
1 script · 1838–1927
Isaac Frederick Marcosson
1 script · 1876–1961
Clements R. (Clements Robert), Sir Markham
1 script · 1830–1916
Christopher Marlowe
8 scripts · 1564–1593
George Meredith
2 scripts · 1828–1909
Edna St. Vincent Millay
2 scripts · 1892–1950
A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
3 scripts · 1882–1956
Molière
21 scripts · 1622–1673
Richard G. (Richard Green) Moulton
1 script · 1849–1924
William Mountfort
1 script · 1664–1692
E. (Edith) Nesbit
1 script · 1858–1924
Alfred Noyes
1 script · 1880–1958
Seumas O'Brien
1 script · b. 1880
Eugene O'Neill
7 scripts · 1888–1953
Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky
1 script · 1823–1886
Brett Page
1 script · dates unknown
Josephine Preston Peabody
1 script · 1874–1922
Plato
1 script · -428–-348
Titus Maccius Plautus
1 script · -255–-185
Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
1 script · 1799–1837
Jean Racine
2 scripts · 1639–1699
Charles Reade
1 script · 1814–1884
Jean-François Regnard
3 scripts · 1655–1709
Edward Robins
1 script · 1862–1943
Edmond Rostand
5 scripts · 1868–1918
Friedrich Schiller
15 scripts · 1759–1805
Walter Scott
1 script · 1771–1832
Lucius Annaeus, 5? BCE-65 Seneca
1 script · dates unknown
William Shakespeare
71 scripts · 1564–1616
Bernard Shaw
33 scripts · 1856–1950
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
1 script · 1797–1851
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
5 scripts · 1751–1816
Upton Sinclair
5 scripts · 1878–1968
Sophocles
5 scripts · -496–-407
Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël
1 script · 1766–1817
Augusta Stevenson
1 script · 1869–1976
August Strindberg
12 scripts · 1849–1912
Arthur Sullivan
1 script · 1842–1900
Algernon Charles Swinburne
4 scripts · 1837–1909
J. M. (John Millington) Synge
6 scripts · 1871–1909
Rabindranath Tagore
3 scripts · 1861–1941
Booth Tarkington
1 script · 1869–1946
Tom Taylor
1 script · 1817–1880
Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
2 scripts · 1809–1892
Ellen Terry
1 script · 1847–1928
William Makepeace Thackeray
1 script · 1811–1863
Ludwig Thoma
1 script · 1867–1921
Leo, graf Tolstoy
1 script · 1828–1910
Mark Twain
1 script · 1835–1910
Royall Tyler
1 script · 1757–1826
Samuel Vaknin
1 script · b. 1961
Various
19 scripts · dates unknown
Paul Verlaine
1 script · 1844–1896
Voltaire
1 script · 1694–1778
John Webster
1 script · 1580–1625
Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
1 script · 1856–1923
Oscar Wilde
11 scripts · 1854–1900
Percival Wilde
3 scripts · 1887–1953
Emlyn Williams
1 script · 1905–1987
Epiphanius Wilson
1 script · 1845–1916
Thomas A. (Thomas Alfred) Wise
1 script · 1865–1928
W. B. (William Butler) Yeats
3 scripts · 1865–1939
José Zorrilla
1 script · 1817–1893