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Playwrights

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Comprehensive articles and resources on playwrights from around the world. We have pages on individual writers including William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller and David Mamet.

We also have lists of best plays in particular categories including: best plays of all time and best modern plays.

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Playwright Resources:

Best Plays by Nikolai Gogol

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Nikolai Gogol (1809 – 1552) was a Russian playwright and author. Known primarily as a writer of novels and short stories, his contribution to theatre is nonetheless significant due to his influential satire The Government...

Best Plays by Carlo Goldoni

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Carlo Goldoni (1707 – 1793) was a prolific, influential playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. While known best for his 1745 classic The Servant Of Two Masters, Goldoni produced countless works for the...

A Guide to David Mamet

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David Mamet is an American playwright, screenwriter, director and author whose career has spanned the last five decades of film, television and theatre. “Fuck you, that’s my name.” A celebrated and, at times, a controversial...

Best Plays by John Osborne

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A Bit About Playwright John Osborne John Osborne was a British playwright, screenwriter and actor, renowned for catalysing an era of “angry young man” theatre. He embodied this term both in his work which was...

Best Plays by Martyna Majok

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A Bit About Martyna Majok Martyna Majok is a Polish-American playwright who has consistently written excellent work even at this early stage in her career. She won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for her play Cost...

Best Plays by John Webster

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A figure of mystery, we don’t know a lot about John Webster’s life. It’s believed he was born sometime around 1580 and died sometime around 1632. During his short time he had a remarkable career,...

Best Plays by David Mamet

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A Bit About David Mamet David Mamet is an American playwright, screenwriter, dramatist, director and author. He won a Pulitzer Prize and received Tony nominations for his plays Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed-the-Plow. He is...

Best Plays by Tony Kushner

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A Bit About Tony Kushner Kushner is an iconic American playwright best known for his Angels in America plays (part one and part two). His play “Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes,...