Famous playwrights, dramatists, a website directory
Playwright directories and databases
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British Theatre Guide
British Theatre Guide, a site for theater news, latest performance and new plays.
Classical playwrights, plays; a guide to websites.
Doollee.com
A free online guide to modern playwrights and theatre plays which have been written in or translated into English since the production of Look Back in Anger in 1956.
Elizabethan plays and playwrights.
A site dedicated to providing information about Elizabethan plays and playwrights.
The Playwrights Center (US)
For writers seeking artistic and professional support.
Playwrights, dramatists name indexes
American playwrights and plays.
Theatre History
British playwrights and plays.
Theatre History
French playwrights web index.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia entries on playwrights.
The Playwrights’ Center
The Playwrights’ Center is America’s premier incubator of new work for the stage, and the nation’s most powerful resource for playwrights.
The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco
The Playwrights Foundation of America
Young Playwrights Org
For those 18 years old or younger interested in playwriting.
Famous playwrights
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Ayckbourn, Allan
Alan Ayckbourn. Wikipedia entry.
Artaud, Antonin
Antonin Artaud Wikipedia entry.
Antonin Artaud. The Poetry Foundation
Beckett, Samuel
Samuel Beckett Endpage.
A Samuel Beckett website. The Samuel Beckett Society
The Beckett International Foundation
Samuel Beckett, Wikipedia entry.
Waiting for Godot
Rough for Radio I (Audio)
Rough for Radio II (Audio)
Cascando (Audio)
Embers (Audio)
Act Without Words I
Bennett, Alan
Alan Bennett. Wikipedia entry.
Alan Bennett. BFI Screenonline
Alan Bennett. The Guardian, news and comment.
Alan Bennett. British Council Literature
The truth behind the History Boys. The Telegraph
Berkoff, Steven
Stephen Berkoff short biography.
Brecht, Bertold
Bertolt Brecht
The International Bertolt Brecht Society Homepage
Bertolt Brecht. Wikipedia entry.
Brecht’s works in English: A bibliography.
The Brecht Yearbook
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Chekov, Anton P
Anton Chekov web sites. Theatre Database
Chekov biography. Theatre History
Chekhov plays online. Ebooks
The Cherry Orchard (in the original Russian)
Project Gutenberg eTexts, English translations of several Chekov plays.
Anton Chekhov, Wikipedia entry.
Churchill, Caryl
Caryl Churchill. Wikipedia entry.
Cocteau, Jean
Jean Cocteau biography, bibliography, a filmography, movie stills and selected quotations.
Jean Cocteau.
A look at Orphic Trilogy and a brief profile.
Jean Cocteau, Wikipedia entry.
Coward, Sir Noel
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Dürrenmatt, Friedrich
Friedrich Dürrenmatt, an introduction and bibliography.
Friedrich Dürrenmatt. Wikipedia
Centre Dürrenmatt Neuchâtel
A Durrenmatt home page from The University of Chicago Press.
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Ford, John
John Ford. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Ford. Oxford Reference
The Works of John Ford
Frayn, Michael
Heisenberg and the Uncertainty Principle
Michael Frayn. The British Council website.
Michael Frayn. Wikipedia entry.
Michael Frayn. The Guardian, articles and essays.
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Genet, Jean
Jean Genet Wikipedia entry.
Jean Genet. Patrice Bougon:
academic research, symposium on Jean Genet. Société des Amis et Lecteurs de Genet
Hare, David
David Hare, a biography.
David Hare, Wikipedia entry.
Ibsen, Henrik
Henrik Ibsen web page. Ibsen plays, links, stage history.
The Ibsen Society of America Official Website
Ibsen Studies, an international academic journal devoted to Ibsen.
Online course by Ibsen scholar Brian Johnston author of The Ibsen Cycle and To the Third Empire: Ibsen’s Early Drama
Ibsen.
An extensive resource on Henrik Ibsen, from the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Ibsen. Works by or about Henrik Ibsen at Internet Archive.
Henrik Ibsen. Online works at at Project Gutenberg.
When We Dead Awaken
A Doll’s House
Hedda Garbler
The Master Builder
Ionesco, Eugene
Eugene Ionesco. Biography plus links to all of his works currently in print.
Eugène Ionesco. Wikipedia
Eugene Ionesco. TheatreHistory.com
Eugene Ionesco. The New Yorker
A Conversation With Eugene Ionesco. HuffPost
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Middleton, Thomas
Thomas Middleton. Works, life, essays, books.
Thomas Middleton. The plays of Thomas Middleton.
Thomas Middleton. Wikipedia entry.
Moliere, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin
Molière. Works by Moliere at Project Gutenberg
Molière’s works online. Tout Moliere.net
Molière. Site Moliere
Moliere’s Verses Plays
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O’Neill, Eugene Gladstone
Eugene O’Neill. Wikipedia entry.
Eugene O’Neill
Eugene O’Neill. Nobel Prize Archive
About Eugene O’Neill. PBS
Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site
Eugene O’Neill. IMDb
Eugene O’Neill. An introduction
Eugene O’Neill News. The New York Times
Osborne, John
John Osborne. Wikipedia, entry.
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Pinter, Harold
The Harold Pinter Webpage
Harold Pinter.
Wikipedia entry on Harold Pinter.
Harold Pinter Nobel Prize Lecture
Pirandello, Luigi
Luigi Pirandello. Biography by the Nobel Foundation.
Pirandello. ClassicNotes: Henry IV
Pirandello. ClassicNotes: Six Characters in Search of an Author
Priestley, J. B.
J B Priestley. A complete guide to the playwright. Plays, theatres, agent
J.B. Priestley Archive, Library, University of Bradford
JB Priestley. The Guardian
An Inspector Calls
Wikipedia
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Rattigan, Terence
Terence Rattigan. Wikipedia entry.
Terence Rattigan, a dedicated website.
Terence Rattigan. IMDb
The fall and rise of Terence Rattigan. The Telegraph
Terence Rattigan. The Guardian
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Shaffer, Peter
Peter Shaffer, Wikipedia entry.
Shakespeare, William
See also: Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Oxford Society homepage. Information, life, resources, articles.
Shepherd, Sam
Sam Shepherd, Wikipedia entry.
Sam Shepherd Web Site
Stoppard, (Sir) Tom
Tom Stoppard, biography and background.
Tom Stoppard, Wikipedia entry.
Tom Stoppard. Guardian interview.
Tom Stoppard
Tom Stoppard: an information page from British Council Literature.
Tom Stoppard. Wikipedia
Tom Stoppard interview. The Telegraph
Tom Stoppard. The Guardian interview.
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Webster, John
John Webster. Wikipedia entry.
The Duchess of Malfi
The White Devil
The Age of Shakespeare, by Algernon Swinburne.
Wesker, Sir Arnold
Williams, Tennesse
Tennessee Williams, Wikipedia entry.
Tennessee Williams at the Internet Broadway Database
Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
A Streetcar Named Desire: Study Guide
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
Tennessee Williams: An Inventory of His Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
Tennessee Williams Collection. University of Mississippi