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30 Playwrights... best Known plays
- William Shakespeare... 39 plays including Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello.
- George Bernard Shaw... Pygmalion, Saint Joan, Arms and the Man, Major Barbara, Man and Superman, Candida.
- Arthur Miller... The Crucible, Death of a Salesman.
- Noel Coward... Private Lives, Present Laughter, Hay Fever, The Vortex, Blithe Spirit.
- Harold Pinter... The Birthday Party, Hedda Gabler, The Homecoming, The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker.
- Tennessee Williams... The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night of the Iguana.
- Oscar Wilde... Lady Windemere’s Fan, The Importance of Being Earnest.
- Anton Chekhov... Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard.
- Eugene O'Neill - Long Day's Journey Into Night, The Iceman Cometh.
- Henrik Ibsen... Peer Gynt, Hedda Gabler, The Doll's House.
- Edward Albee... Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Wolf.
- Samuel Beckett... Waiting For Godot, Endgame.
- John Osborne... Look Back In Anger, The Entertainer.
- Neil Simon... The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park.
- Tom Stopard... Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, Travesties.
- Alan Bennett... The History Boys.
- Joe Orton... Loot, What The Butler Saw.
- J. M. Barrie... The Admirable Crichton, Quality Street.
- Christopher Marlow... Doctor Faustus, Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta.
- Moliere... Tartuffe, Don Juan, The Miser.
- Terence Rattigan... The Winslow Boy.
- Ben Jonson... The Alchemist, Volpone.
- Alyn Ayckbourn... Absurd Person Singular, Joking Apart, The Norman Conquests trilogy, Bedroom Farce.
- Peter Shaffer... Amadeus, Equus, Shrivings.
- Mike Leigh... Abigail's Party, Ecstasy.
- Willy Russell... Educating Rita, Shirley Valentine.
- Keith Waterhouse... Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.
- J.B. Priestly... An Inspector Calls.
- Caryl Churchill... Top Girls, Cloud Nine.
- T. S. Eliot... Murder in the Cathedral, The Cocktail Party.