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Aeschylus - Greek tragedian; the father of Greek tragic drama (525-456 BC)

Albee, Edward Albee, Edward Franklin Albeen - United States dramatist (1928-)

Maxwell Anderson, Anderson - United States dramatist (1888-1959)

Anouilh, Jean Anouilh - French dramatist noted for his reinterpretations of Greek myths (1910-1987)

Aristophanes - an ancient Greek dramatist remembered for his comedies (448-380 BC)

Barrie, J. M. Barrie, James Barrie, James Matthew Barrie, Sir James Matthew Barrie - Scottish dramatist and novelist; created Peter Pan (1860-1937)

Francis Beaumont, Beaumont - English dramatist who collaborated with John Fletcher (1584-1616)

Beckett, Samuel Beckett - a playwright and novelist (born in Ireland) who lived in France; wrote plays for the Theater of the Absurd (1906-1989)

Bertolt Brecht, Brecht - German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956)

Calderon, Calderon de la Barca, Pedro Calderon de la Barca - Spanish poet and dramatist considered one of the great Spanish writers (1600-1681)

Capek, Karel Capek - Czech writer who introduced the word `robot' into the English language (1890-1938)

Cervantes, Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - Spanish writer best remembered for `Don Quixote' which satirizes chivalry and influenced the development of the novel form (1547-1616)

Anton Chekhov, Anton Chekov, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich Chekov, Chekhov, Chekov - Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904)

Corneille, Pierre Corneille - French tragic dramatist whose plays treat grand moral themes in elegant verse (1606-1684)

Noel Coward, Sir Noel Pierce Coward, Coward - English dramatist and actor and composer noted for his witty and sophisticated comedies (1899-1973)

Crouse, Russel Crouse - United States playwright (1893-1966)

Decker, Dekker, Thomas Decker, Thomas Dekker - English dramatist and pamphleteer (1572-1632)

Dryden, John Dryden - the outstanding poet and dramatist of the Restoration (1631-1700)

Eliot, T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot - British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)

Euripides - one of the greatest tragic dramatists of ancient Greece (480-406 BC)

Fletcher, John Fletcher - prolific English dramatist who collaborated with Francis Beaumont and many other dramatists (1579-1625)

Christopher Fry, Fry - English dramatist noted for his comic verse dramas (born 1907)

Athol Fugard, Fugard - South African playwright whose plays feature the racial tensions in South Africa during apartheid (born in 1932)

Frederico Garcia Lorca, Garcia Lorca, Lorca - Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936)

Jean Genet, Genet - French writer of novels and dramas for the theater of the absurd (1910-1986)

Andre Gide, Andre Paul Guillaume Gide, Gide - French author and dramatist who is regarded as the father of modern French literature (1869-1951)

Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux, Jean Giraudoux - French novelist and dramatist whose plays were reinterpretations of Greek myths (1882-1944)

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - German poet and novelist and dramatist who lived in Weimar (1749-1832)

Carlo Goldoni, Goldoni - prolific Italian dramatist (1707-1793)

Granville-Barker, Harley Granville-Barker - English actor and dramatist and critic and director noted for his productions of Shakespearean plays (1877-1946)