History of Western Theatre: 17th Century to Now/Alphabetical list of playwrights (died 1855-1955)

This list of recent authors has been added for the benefit of readers in jurisdictions where the copyright expires a fixed period after the authors life, rather than date of publication or renewal. Annotated by year of death Ade, George 1944 Afford, Malcolm 1954 Afinogenov, Alexander 1941 Anderson, Arthur 1942 Andreyev, Leonid 1919 Arlt, Roberto Arniches, Carlos 1943 Artaud, Antonin 1948 Arthur, Joseph 1906 Asche, Oscar 1936 Bacon, Frank 1922 Baker, George Melville 1890 Balderston, John L. 1954 Bangs, John Kendrick 1922 Barrie, James Murray 1937 Barry, Phillip 1949 Baring, Maurice 1945 Beach, Rex 1949 Beith, John Hay 1952 Belasco, David 1930 Bennett, Arnold 1931 Benelli, Sam 1949 Besier, Rudolf 1942 Binyon, Laurence 1943 Birinski, Leo 1951 Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne 1910 Black, Stephen 1931 Brown, Abbie Farwell 1927 Bulgakov, Mikhail 1940 Burnard, Francis Cowley 1917 Burrill, Mary P. 1946 Byron, Henry James 1884 Calderon, George 1915 Caine, Sir Hall 1931 Čapek, Karel 1938 Chekov, Anton 1904 Collette 1953 Collison, Wilson 1941 Colton, John 1946 Cowl, Jane 1950 Davis, Richard Harding 1916 de Lorde, André 1942 Dickens, Charles 1880 Dixon, Thomas, Jr. 1946 Dowson, Ernest 1900 Drinkwater, John 1937 Drury, William Price 1948 Du Maurier, Guy 1915 Duprez, Fred 1938 Epstein, Philip G. 1952 Ewing, Juliana Horatia 1885 Feydeau, Georges 1921 Fitch, Clyde 1909 Flecker, James Elroy 1915 Fort, Garrett 1945 Frank, Bruno 1945 Fulton, Maude 1950 Gadkari, Ram Ganesh 1919 Galsworthy, John 1933 Gates, Eleanor 1950 Gilbert, W. S. 1911 Giraudoux, Jean 1944 Glaspell, Susan 1948 Glass, Montague 1934 Goddard, Charles 1951 Gorky, Maxim 1936 Granville-Barker, Harley 1946 Gregory, Lady Augusta 1933 Hackett, Walter C. 1944 Hasler, Karel 1941 Hazelton, George Cochrane 1921 Hauptmann, Gerhart 1946 Hawtrey, Charles 1923 Herne, James A.1901 Hoffe, Monckton 1951 Hopwood, Avery 1928 Howard, Sidney Coe 1939 Howells, William Dean 1920 Hughes, Hatcher 1945 Hunyady, Sándor 1942 Ibsen, Henrik 1906 Jackson, Frederick 1953 James, Henry 1916 Jones Henry Arthur 1929 Kailasam, T. P. 1946 Klein, Charles 1919 Lavedan, Henri 1940 Law, Arthur 1913 Le Pera, Alfredo 1935 Lewis, Sinclair 1951 Locke, Edward 1945 Lonsdale, Frederick 1954 Lorca, Federico García 1936 Magnus, Julian 1905 Mack, Willard 1934 MacSwiney, Terence 1920 Maeterlinck, Maurice 1949 Mayo, Margaret 1951 Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1930 McKinnel, Norman 1932 Millay, Edna St. Vincent 1950 Moffat, Graham 1951 Moore, Thomas Sturge 1944 Morton, Michael 1931 Mühsam, Erich 1934 Manners, J. Hartley 1928 Mizner, Wilson 1933 Oliphant, Ernest Henry Clark 1936 O'Riordan, Conal Holmes O'Connell 1948 O'Neill, Eugene 1953 Parker, Louis N. 1944 Pirandello, Luigi 1936 Pinero, Arthur Wing 1934 Prasad, Jaishankar 1937 Przybyszewska, Stanisława 1935 Raghava, Bellary 1946 Rostand, Edmond 1918 Robins, Elizabeth 1952 Rudd, Steele 1935 Sardou, Victorien 1907 Schnitzler, Arthur 1931 Shaw, George Bernard 1950 Shawqi, Ahmed 1932 Sheldon, Edward 1946 Shiels, George 1949 Sierra, Gregorio Martínez 1947 Steell, Willis 1942 Strindberg, August 1912 Sudermann, Hermann 1928 Summers, Montague 1948 Sutro, Alfred 1933 Swears, Herbert 1946 Swinburne, Algernon Charles1909 Synge, John Millington 1905 Thomas, Augustus 1934 Toller, Ernst 1939 Turner, Walter J. 1946 Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1892 Thomas, Brandon1918 Thompson, Alexander. M 1948 Turgenev, Ivan 1885 Von Horváth, Ödön 1938 Walsh, William Thomas 1949 Walter, Eugene 1941 Webster, Jean 1916 Wedekind, Frank 1918 Willard, John 1942 Wilson, Harry Leon 1939 Wilde, Percival 1953 Yeats, W. B. 1939 Zangwill, Israel 1926 Zola, Emile 1902