Plus examples of their greatest plays.
List Compiled and Edited By: Jacqueline W.
List Begun: 2023-01-17
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William Shakespeare
Anton Chekov
1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Macbeth
• Hamlet
2. Anton Chekov (1860-1904)
• The Cherry Orchard
• The Seagull
• Uncle Vanya
3. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
• The School for Scandal
• The Rivals
4. Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)
• A Doll's House
• Ghosts
• The Wild Duck
5. Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin) (1622-1673)
• Tartuffe
• The Misanthrope
6. Sophocles (496-406 BC)
• Oedipius Rex
• Antigone
• Electra
7. Tennessee Williams (1911-1983)
• The Glass Menagerie
• A Streetcar Named Desire
• Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
8. Aristophanes (427-386 BC)
• Lysistrata
• The Frogs
9. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• A Woman of No Importance
10. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
• Pygmalion
• Man and Superman
11. Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953)
• Long Day's Journey Into Night
• The Iceman Cometh
• Mourning Becomes Electra
12. Lorraine Hansbury (1930-1965)
• A Raisin in the Sun
13. Neil Simon (1927-2018)
• The Odd Couple
• Barefoot in the Park
• Plaza Suite
• Biloxi Blues
14. Arthur Miller (1915-2005)
• Death of a Salesman
• The Crucible
• A View from the Bridge
15. Aeschylus (524-456 BC)
• Prometheus Bound
• Agamemnon
• The Persians
16. Noel Coward (1889-1973)
• Private Lives
• Blithe Spirit
17. Thorton Wilder (1897-1975)
• Our Town
• The Matchmaker
• The Skin of our Teeth
18. Lillian Hellman (1905-1984)
• The Children's Hour
• The Little Foxes
19. Tom Stoppard (1937- )
• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
• Night and Day
• Arcadia
20. Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
• The Birthday Party
• The Dumbwaiter
21. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
• The Rover
• The Young King
22. T.S. Eliot (1888-1964)
• Murder in the Cathedral
23. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
• She Stoops to Conquer
• The Good Natur'd Man
24. David Mamet (1947- )
• Glengarry Glen Ross
25. Alan Bennett (1934- )
• The History Boys
26. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
• The Three Penny Opera
27. Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)
• Anatol
28. Moss Hart (1904-1961)
• You Can't Take it With You
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
29. Sophie Treadwell (1885-1970)
• Machinal
30. Sidney Howard (1891-1939)
• They Knew What They Wanted
31. Eugene Ionescu (1909-1994)
• The Bald Soprano
32. August Wilson (1945-2005)
• The Piano Lesson
• Fences
33. Eric Bogosian (1953- )
• Talk Radio
• subUrbia
34. Clare Boothe Luce (1903-1987)
• The Women
• Kiss the Boys Goodbye
35. Clifford Odets (1906-1963)
• Awake and Sing
36. Howard Lindsey / Russel Crouse (1889-1968/1893-1966)
• Life with Father
37. August Strindberg (1849-1912)
• Miss Julie
• The Father
38. Tony Kushner (1956- )
• Angels in America
39. Ben Johnson (1572-1637)
• Volpone
• Every Man in His Humour
40. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
• Tamburlaine
• Doctor Faustus
41. Wendy Wasserstein (1950-2006)
• The Heidi Chronicles
42. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
• The Ascent of F6
43. Karel Capek (1890-1938)
• Rossum's Universal Robots
44. Sam Shepard (1943-2017)
• True West
45. John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
• The Playboy of the Western World
46. John Cocteau (1889-1963)
• The Infernal Machine
47. Euripedes (480-406 BC)
• Medea
• Electra
• The Trojan Women
48. Edward Albee (1928-2016)
• Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf
• The Zoo Story
49. Katori Hall (1981- )
• The Mountaintop
50. David Hare (1947- )
• Plenty
• Stuff Happens