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This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth ; Lists of authors . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
See also: List of playwrights from the United States; List of African-American writers; List of Jewish American playwrights (1766–1839) William Dunlap (1784–1842) Samuel Woodworth (1784–1858) James Nelson Barker (1793–1876) John Neal (1806–1854) Robert Montgomery Bird (1810–1858) Robert Taylor Conrad (1819–1870) Anna Cora Mowatt
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between characters and is intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading. Ben Jonson coined the term "playwright" and is the first person in English literature to refer to playwrights as separate from poets.
List of Jewish American playwrights; References Further reading. Meserve, Walter J. An Outline History of American Drama, 2nd ed., New York: Feedback Theatrebooks ...
In light of this, please do not use the "Playwrights" and "Dramatists" subcategories of this category anymore, but move articles from either "Dramatists" or "Playwrights" to this category instead. People should, however, usually be filed in the appropriate subcategory of Category:Dramatists and playwrights by nationality rather than directly in ...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into the U.S. the drama techniques of realism, earlier associated with Chekhov, Ibsen, and Strindberg.
Gibson made his Broadway debut with Two for the Seesaw in 1958, a critically acclaimed two-character play, which starred Henry Fonda and, in her own Broadway debut, Anne Bancroft. It was directed by Arthur Penn. Gibson published a chronicle of the vicissitudes of rewriting for the sake of this production with The Seesaw Log, a nonfiction book.
Simon Stephens (born 6 February 1971) is a British-Irish playwright and Professor of Scriptwriting at Manchester Metropolitan University. Having taught on the Young Writers' Programme at the Royal Court Theatre for many years, he is now an Artistic Associate at the Lyric Hammersmith.