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Biographies of Playwrights (in chronological order).
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Pages in category "Playwrights"
The following 200 pages are in this category, out of 224 total.
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- Feo Belcari (M / Italy, 1410-1484), playwright
- Lorenzo de' Medici (M / Italy, 1449-1492), playwright
- Antonio Alamanni (M / Italy, 1464-1528), playwright
- Giovan Battista dell'Ottonaio (M / Italy, 1482-1527), playwright
- Hans Sachs (M / Germany, 1494-1576), playwright
- John Bale (M / Britain, 1495-1563), playwright
- Johannes Aal (M / Switzerland, c1500-1553), playwright
- Sixt Birck (M / Germany, 1501-1554), scholar, playwright
- George Buchanan (M / Britain, 1506-1582), playwright
- Ludovico Dolce (M / Italy, 1508-1568), playwright
- Thomas Naogeorg (M / Germany, 1508-1563), playwright
- Nicholas Grimald (M / Britain, 1519-1562), playwright
- Jean de Virey du Gravier (M / France, d.1597), playwright
- William Goldingham (M / Britain, 16th cent.), playwright
- Thomas Legge (M / Britain, 1535-1607), playwright
- Jacobus Pontanus (M / Czechia, 1542-1626), playwright
- Giovanni Francesco Alberti (M / Italy, 1558-1601), playwright
- Federico Della Valle (M / Italy, 1560-1628), playwright
- Bernardino Stefonio (M / Italy, 1560-1620), playwright
- Gaspar de Aguilar (M / Spain / 1561-1623), playwright
- John Smythe (M / Britain, 1563-1612), playwright
- William Shakespeare (M / Britain, 1564-1616), playwright
- Gervase Markham (M / Britain, 1568-1637), playwright
- Alexandre Hardy (M / France, c1571-1632), playwright
- Leone Modena (M / Italy, 1571-1648), scholar, playwright
- Tirso de Molina (M / Spain / 1571?-1648), playwright
- William Percy (M / Britain, 1574–1648), playwright
- William Haughton (M / Britain, 1575-1605), playwright
- Giovan Battista Andreini (M / Italy, 1576-1654), playwright
- Jacopo Cicognini (M / Italy, 1577-1633), playwright
- Jacob Bidermann (M / Germany, 1578-1639), playwright
- Daniel Heinsius (M / Netherlands, 1580-1655), playwright
- Hugo Grotius (M / Netherlands, 1583-1645), scholar, playwright
- Filippo Finella (M / Italy, 1584), playwright
- Elizabeth Cary (F / Britain, 1585-1639), playwright
- Felipe Godínez (M / Spain / 1585-1659), playwright
- Joost van den Vondel (M / Netherlands, 1587-1679), playwright
- Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón (M / Spain / 1596?-1661), playwright
- Pedro Calderón de la Barca (M / Spain / 1600-1681), playwright
- William Sampson (M / Britain, c1600-c1660), playwright
- François Tristan L'Hermite (M / France, 1601-1655), playwright
- William Heminges (M / Britain, 1602-1653), playwright
- Pierre Corneille (M / France, 1606-1684), playwright
- John Milton (M / Britain, 1608-1674), poet, playwright
- Cristóbal Lozano (M / Spain, 1609-1667), playwright
- Carlo Torre (M / Italy, 1609-1679), playwright
- Gaultier de Coste de La Calprenède (M / France, 1610-1663), playwright
- Cosmo Manuche (M / Britain, 1613-1673), playwright
- Andreas Gryphius (M / Germany, 1616-1664), playwright
- Johann Klaj (M / Germany, 1616-1656), playwright
- Jean Magnon (M / France, 1620-1662), playwright
- Roger Boyle (M / Britain, 1621-1679), playwright
- Samuel Pordage (M / Britain, 1633-1691), playwright
- Jean Baptiste Racine (M / France, 1639-1699), playwright
- Johann Christian Hallmann (M / Germany, 1640-1704), playwright
- John Crowne (M / British America, Britain, 1641-1712), playwright
- Thomas Otway (M / Britain, 1652-1685), playwright
- Johann Baptist Adolph (M / Austria, 1657-1708), playwright
- Augustin Nadal (M / France, 1659-1741), playwright
- Antonio de Zamora (M / Spain, 1664-1728), playwright
- Antoine Houdart de La Motte (M / France, 1672-1731), playwright
- Elijah Fenton (M / Britain, 1683-1730), playwright
- Père de la Sante (M / France, 1684-1762), playwright
- Voltaire (M / France, 1694-1778), playwright
- Alfonso Varano (M / Italy, 1705-1788), playwright
- Bernard-Joseph Saurin (M / France, 1706-1781), playwright
- Lorenzo Brunassi (M / Italy, 1709-1753), playwright
- Francesca Manzoni Giusti (F / Italy, 1710-1743), playwright
- Vittorio Gristi (M / Malta, 1714-1787), playwright
- Mary Latter (F / Britain, 1722-1777), playwright
- Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (M / Germany, 1724-1803), poet
- Gavriil R. Derzhavin (M / Russia, 1743-1816), playwright
- Vittorio Alfieri (M / Italy, 1749-1803), playwright
- Mary Eleanor Bowes Strathmore (F / Britain, 1749-1800), playwright
- Francesco Antonio Avelloni (M / Italy, 1756-1837), playwright
- Jean-Guillaume-Antoine Cuvelier de Trie (M / France, 1766-1824), playwright
- Zacharias Werner (M / Germany, 1768-1823), playwright
- Luigi Scevola (M / Italy, 1770-1819), playwright
- Siegfried August Mahlmann (M / Germany, 1771-1826), playwright
- François-Isaac-Hyacinthe Decomberousse (M / France, 1786-1856), playwright
- Alexandre Guiraud (M / France, 1788-1847), novelist, playwright
- Friedrich Rückert (M / Germany, 1788-1866), scholar, playwright
- Silvio Pellico (M / Italy, 1789-1854), playwright
- William Pace (M / Britain, 19th cent.), novelist
- József Katona (M / Hungary, 1791-1830), playwright
- Henry H. Milman (1791-1868), scholar, poet and playwright.
- Jost Michaël (M / Germany, 19th cent.), playwright
- William Ball (1801-1878), playwright
- Richard Henry Horne (1803-1884), playwright
- Henry Rich (1803-1869), playwright
- Delphine de Girardin (M / France, 1804-1855), playwright
- Hans Christian Andersen (M / Denmark, 1805-1875), playwright
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (M / United States, 1807-1882), playwright
- Laughton Osborn (1809-1878), playwright
- Leopold Stein (M / Germany, 1810-1882), playwright
- Karl Ferdinand Gutzkow (M / Germany, 1811-1878), playwright
- Giulio Carcano (M / Italy, 1812-1884), playwright
- Cesare De Horatiis (M / Italy, 1812-1863), playwright
- Julius Kossarski (M / Germany, 1812-1879), playwright
- Antonio Gazzoletti (M / Italy, 1813-1866), playwright
- Friedrich Hebbel (M / Germany, 1813-1863), playwright
- Otto Ludwig (M / Germany, 1813-1865), playwright
- Henry Solly (M / Britain, 1813-1903), playwright
- Aubrey De Vere (1814-1902), playwright
- Paolo Giacometti (M / Italy, 1816-1882), playwright
- José Zorrilla y Moral (M / Spain, 1817-1893), playwright
- Albert Dulk (M / Germany, 1819-1884), plawright
- Samuel Hobart Winkley (1819-1911), playwright
- Israel Meir Wohlman (1821-1913), playwright
- Rudolph Neumeister (M / Germany, 1822-1909), playwright
- Ramón Franquelo (M / Spain, 1824-1874), playwright
- John McDowell Leavitt (b.1824), playwright
- George Henry Miles (1824–1871), playwright
- Maurice Walch (M / France, 19th cent.), playwright
- Paul von Heyse (M / Germany, 1830-1914), playwright
- Herman Milton Bien (M / United States, 1831-1895), playwright, novelist
- Giovanni Bovio (M / Italy, 1837-1903), playwright
- Pietro Calvi (M / Italy, 1839-1900), playwright
- Abraham Goldfaden (1840-1908), playwright and composer
- Moses Horowitz (1844-1910), playwright
- Angel Guimerá (M / Spain, 1845-1924), playwright
- Wilson Barrett (M / Britain, 1846-1904), playwright
- George Barlow (1847-1913), playwright
- William Young (1847-1920), playwright
- Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav (M / Slovakia, 1849-1921), playwright
- Joseph Judah Lerner (M / Russia, 1849-1907), playwright
- Henry Iliowizi (1850-1911), playwright
- Ya`akov Ter (1850-1935), playwright
- Dmitri A. Aleksandrov (M / Russia, 19th cent.), playwright
- Henry Pereira Mendes (1852-1937), playwright
- George Moore (1852-1933), novelist & playwright
- Oscar Wilde (M / Ireland, Britain, 1854-1900), playwright
- Hermann Sudermann (M / Germany, 1857-1928), playwright
- Carl Hauptmann (M / Germany, 1858-1921), playwright
- Tor Hedberg (M / Sweden, 1862-1931), novelist, plawright
- Maurice Maeterlinck (M / Belgium, 1862-1949), playwright
- Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (F / United States, 1863-1945), playwright
- Augusto de Lacerda (M / Portugal, 1864-1926), playwright, novelist
- Stephen Phillips (M / Britain, 1864-1915), playwright
- Lawrence Housman (M / Britain, 1865-1959), playwright
- Judah Loeb Landau (M / Austria, 1866-1942), playwright
- Raphaël Verhulst (M / Netherlands, 1866-1941), playwright
- Hjalmar Procopé (M / Finland, 1868-1927), playwright
- Edmond Rostand (M / France, 1868-1918), playwright
- Gjergj Fishta (M / Albania, 1871-1940), playwright
- Albert Du Bois (M / Belgium, 1872-1940), playwright
- Alberto Colantuoni (M / Italy, 1874-1959), playwright
- John Wesley De Kay (1874-1938), playwright
- Ridgely Torrence (1874-1950), playwright
- Perry J. Stackhouse (b.1875), playwright
- Henri Bernstein (M / France, 1876-1953), playwright
- Federico Valerio Giusto Ratti (M / Italy, 1877-1944), playwright
- Karol Hubert Rostworowski (M / Poland, 1877-1938), playwright
- Eduard Diener (M / Germany, 1878-1959), playwright
- Florence Wilkinson Evans (F / United States, 1878-...), playwright
- Egon Friedell (M / Austria, 1878-1938), playwright
- John Masefield (1878-1967), playwright
- Guido Manacorda (M / Italy, 1879-1965), playwright
- Ernest Temple Thurston (1879-1933), playwright
- Enrique García-Velloso (M / Argentina, 1880-1938), playwright
- Jehuda Leib Wohlman (1880-1955), playwright
- Gino Damerini (M / Italy, 1881-1967), playwright
- Enrico Pea (M / Italy, 1881-1958), playwright
- Jean Giraudoux (M / France, 1882-1944), playwright
- Hans Kyser (M / Germany, 1882-1940), playwright
- Hjalmar Bergman (M / Sweden, 1883-1931), playwright
- Harry Kemp (1883-1960), poet & playwright
- Elma Ehrlich Levinger (1887-1958), playwright
- Benjamin Russell Herts (1888-1954), playwright
- Coral W. Topping (M / Canada, 1889-1988), novelist, playwright
- Douglas J. Boyle
- Moritz Wormser (M / Germany, 20th cent.), playwright
- Izak Goller (1891-1939), playwright
- Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974), novelist, playwright
- Dorothy L. Sayers (F / Britain, 1893-1957), playwright
- Franz Werfel (M / Czechia, 1895-1976), playwright
- Philip Barry (1896-1949), playwright
- Nathan Bistritzky (M / Israel, 1896-1980), playwright
- Lydia May Glover Deseo (F / United States, 1898-...), playwright
- Michel de Ghelderode (M / Belgium, 1898-1962), playwright
- Kaj Munk (M / Denmark, 1898-1944), playwright
- Reginald Lawrence (1900-1967), playwright
- Kjeld Abell (M / Denmark, 1901-1961), playwright
- Pierre Bost (M / France, 1901-1975), playwright
- Dorothy Clarke Wilson (1904-2003), novelist & playwright
- Urban Nagle (1905-1965), playwright
- Claude-André Puget (M / France, 1905-1975), playwright
- Olov Hartman (1906-1982), playwright
- Jacobus Johannes Müller (1906-1977), scholar & playwright
- Wladimir Rabi (M / France, 1906-1981), playwright
- Robert Brasillach (M / France, 1909-1945), playwright
- Diego Fabbri (M / Italy, 1911-1980), playwright
- Gertrud Fussenegger (F / Austria, 1912-2009), novelist, librettist
- René Marqués (1917-1979), playwright
- Isidora Aguirre (F / Chile, 1919-2011), playwright
- Franco Fochi (M / Italy, 1921-2007), playwright