Dramatist

Name	Nationality	Date of Birth	Date of Death
Alan Bennett	English	May 9, 1934
Alan Bleasdale	British	March 22, 1936
Alan Jay Lerner	American	August 31, 1918	June 14, 1986
Alexandre Dumas	French	July 24, 1802	December 5, 1870
Andrew Cherry	Irish	January 11, 1762	February 12, 1812
Anton Chekhov	Russian	January 29, 1860	July 14, 1904
Antonin Artaud	French	September 4, 1896	March 4, 1948
Aphra Behn	English	1640	April 16, 1689
Arnold Wesker	British	May 24, 1932
August Strindberg	Swedish	January 22, 1849	May 14, 1912
Barrie Keeffe	English	October 31, 1945
Ben Maddow	American	August 7, 1909	October 9, 1992
Brendan Behan	Irish	February 9, 1923	March 20, 1964
Charles Macklin	Irish	1697	1797
Charles Sedley	English	1639	1701
Charles Simon Favart	French	November 13, 1710	May 12, 1792
Christopher Marlowe	English	February 26, 1564	May 30, 1593
Clare Boothe Luce	American	April 10, 1903	October 9, 1987
Cyril Tourneur	English	1575	1626
David Mallet	Scottish	1705	1765
David Mamet	American	November 30, 1947
Dennis Potter	British	May 17, 1935	June 7, 1994
Dion Boucicault	Irish	December 26, 1822	1890
Dodie Smith	English	May 3, 1896	November 24, 1990
Douglas William Jerrold	English	January 3, 1803	June 8, 1857
Edward Albee	American	March 12, 1928
Edward Moore	English	March 22, 1712	March 1, 1757
Eugene Ionesco	French	November 26, 1912	March 28, 1994
Eugene O'Neill	American	October 16, 1888	November 27, 1953
Frances Goodrich	American	December 21, 1890	January 29, 1984
Friedrich Schiller	German	November 10, 1759	May 9, 1805
Georg Buchner	German	October 17, 1813	February 19, 1837
George Bernard Shaw	Irish	July 26, 1856	November 2, 1950
George Colman	English
George Etherege	English	1635	1692
George Farquhar	Irish	1678	April 29, 1707
George S. Kaufman	American	November 16, 1889	June 2, 1961
Georges Courteline	French	June 25, 1858	June 25, 1929
Hannah Cowley	English	1743	1809
Harold Pinter	English	October 10, 1930
Henry Arthur Jones	English	September 20, 1851	January 7, 1929
Henry James Byron	English	January 8, 1835	April 11, 1884
Henry Porter	English
Henry Taylor	English	October 18, 1800	March 27, 1886
Hugh Leonard	Irish	November 9, 1926	February 12, 2009
J. P. Donleavy	American	April 23, 1926
James Shirley	English	1596	October 29, 1666
Jean Genet	French	December 19, 1910	April 15, 1986
Jean Giraudoux	French	October 29, 1882	January 31, 1944
Jean Racine	French	December 22, 1639	April 21, 1699
John Ciardi	English	June 24, 1916	March 30, 1986
John Fletcher	English	December 20, 1579	1625
John Ford	English	April 17, 1586	1640
John Heywood	English	1497	1580
Jules Renard	French	February 22, 1864	May 22, 1910
Julius J. Epstein	American	August 22, 1909	December 30, 2000
Lady Gregory	Irish	March 15, 1852	May 22, 1932
Lillian Hellman	American	June 20, 1907	June 30, 1984
Marcel Pagnol	French	February 28, 1895	April 18, 1974
Marsha Norman	American	September 21, 1947
Maurice Maeterlinck	Belgian	August 29, 1862	June 6, 1949
Nathaniel Lee	English	1653	1692
Nelson Gidding	American	September 15, 1919	May 1, 2004
Oscar Wilde	Irish	October 16, 1854	November 30, 1900
Paddy Chayefsky	American	January 23, 1923	August 1, 1981
Paul Claudel	French	August 6, 1868	February 23, 1955
Pedro Calderon de la Barca	Spanish	January 17, 1600	May 25, 1681
Philippe Quinault	French	June 3, 1635	November 26, 1688
Pierre Corneille	French	June 6, 1606	October 1, 1684
Richard Steele	British	1672	September 1, 1729
Samuel Foote	English	January 27, 1720	October 21, 1777
Tennessee Williams	American	March 26, 1911	February 25, 1983
Terence Rattigan	British	June 10, 1911	November 30, 1977
Terry Hands	English	January 9, 1941
Thomas Dekker	English	1572	1632
Thomas Holcroft	English	December 10, 1745	March 23, 1809
Thomas Kyd	English	November 6, 1558	1594
Thomas Lodge	English	1558	1625
Thomas Otway	English	1652	1685
Thomas Shadwell	English	1642	1692
Tom Stoppard	English	July 3, 1937
Vittorio Alfieri	Italiian	January 16, 1749	October 8, 1803
W. S. Gilbert	English	November 18, 1836	May 29, 1911
William Cartwright	English	September 1, 1611	November 29, 1643
William Rowley	English	1585	1626
William Shakespeare	English	April 26, 1564	April 23, 1616
William Wycherley	English	1640	January 1, 1716
Willis Goldbeck	American	October 24, 1898	September 17, 1979
Wilson Mizner	American	May 19, 1876	April 3, 1933
Wole Soyinka	Nigerian	July 13, 1934
Zora Neale Hurston	American	January 7, 1891	January 28, 1960