Drama

No Exit (French: Huis clos) is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

He is considered one of the world's pre-eminent writers of the 19th century and is often referred to as the father of modern drama.

A Doll's House...is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht

William Tell...is a drama written by the German playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller in 1804.

Genre: Drama

Genre: Fiction; drama

Genre: Drama, romance

Genre: Fiction, drama

Sir Tom Stoppard (; born Tomáš Sträussler; 3 July 1937-29 November 2025) was a British playwright and screenwriter.

Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: [ˈrobind̪ɾonat̪ʰ ˈʈʰakuɾ] ; 7 May 1861-7 August 1941) was a Bengali poet, author, playwright, musician, composer, philosopher, social reformer, painter, and one of the foremost figures of the Bengal Renaissance.

A prolific writer of plays, travelogues, novels, and poems, he is also best remembered for his literary fairy tales.

She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning more than 50 years.

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (6 June [O.S. 26 May] 1799-10 February [O.S. 29 January] 1837) was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era.

29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1860-15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904) was a Russian playwright and short story writer.

Along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is one of the three authors of Greek tragedy whose name is ascribed to surviving plays.

Academic knowledge of the genre begins with his work, and understanding of earlier Greek tragedy is largely based on inferences made from reading his surviving plays.

Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol (1 April [O.S. 20 March] 1809-4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (German: [ˈjoːhan ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈʃɪlɐ], short: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʃɪlɐ] ; 10 November 1759-9 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian.

Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov ( buul-GAH-kof; Russian: Михаи́л Афана́сьевич Булга́ков, IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil ɐfɐˈnasʲjɪvʲɪdʑ bʊlˈɡakəf] 15 May [O.S. 3 May] 1891-10 March 1940) was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright.

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (UK: , US: , Italian: [alesˈsandro manˈdzoːni]; 7 March 1785-22 May 1873) was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist.

It is thought to be the second-oldest surviving play of Sophocles, preceded by Ajax, which was written around the same period.

Set in Venice and Cyprus, the play depicts the Moorish military commander Othello as he is manipulated by his ensign, Iago, into suspecting his wife Desdemona of infidelity.

Abhijnanashakuntalam (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्, IAST: Abhijñānaśākuntalam), also known as Shakuntala, The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kalidasa, dramatising the story of Shakuntala told in the epic Mahabharata and regarded as the best of Kalidasa's works.

The play is a comic account of a woman's, Lysistrata's, mission to end the Peloponnesian War between Greek city states by denying sex to all the men of the warring parties and occupying the Acropolis of Athens.

The Peony Pavilion (Chinese: 牡丹亭; pinyin: Mǔdān tíng; Wade-Giles: Mu-tan t'ing), also named The Return of Soul at the Peony Pavilion, is a romantic tragicomedy play written by dramatist Tang Xianzu in 1598.

The Treasury of Loyal Retainers (仮名手本忠臣蔵, Kanadehon Chūshingura; Japanese pronunciation: [ka.na.deꜜ.hoɲ (|) tɕɯː.ɕiŋ.ɡɯ.ɾa, -ŋɯ.ɾa]) is an 11-act bunraku puppet play composed in 1748.

Life Is a Dream (Spanish: La vida es sueño [la ˈβiða es ˈsweɲo]) is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore [ˈsɛi persoˈnaddʒi in ˈtʃerka dauˈtoːre]) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921.

Miss Julie (Swedish: Fröken Julie) is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg.

Woyzeck (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔʏtsɛk]) is a stage play written by Georg Büchner.

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a 1928 German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill.

Rhinoceros (French: Rhinocéros) is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959.

Fuenteovejuna (Spanish: [ˌfwenteoβeˈxuna]) is a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.

Faust ( FOWST, German: [faʊst] ) is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two, based on the German folk legend Faust.

The Trials of Brother Jero is a satirical play by Nigerian playwright, poet, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (9 February 1863-8 July 1933), better known as Anthony Hope, was a British novelist and playwright.

Aristophanes (; Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοφάνης [aristopʰánɛːs]; c. 446, c. 386 BC) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens.

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915, February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist in 20th-century American theater.

Dorothy Leigh Sayers ( SAIRZ; 13 June 1893-17 December 1957) was an English crime novelist, playwright, translator and critic.

Eugène Ionesco (; French: [øʒɛn jɔnɛsko]; born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: [e.uˈdʒen joˈnesku] ; 26 November 1909-28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century.

Ferenc Molnár (US: FERR-ents MOHL-nar, -⁠ənts -⁠, -⁠ MAWL-, Hungarian: [ˈfɛrɛnt͡s ˈmolnaːr]; born Ferenc Neumann; January 12, 1878, April 1, 1952), often anglicized as Franz Molnar, was a Hungarian-born author, stage director, dramatist, and poet.

Karl Georg Büchner (17 October 1813-19 February 1837) was a German dramatist and writer of poetry and prose, considered part of the Young Germany movement.

John Lyly (; also spelled Lilly, Lylie, Lylly; born c. 1553/54, buried 30 November 1606) was an English writer, playwright, courtier, and parliamentarian.

Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French: [ʒyl ɡabʁijɛl vɛʁn]; 8 February 1828-24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

Félix Lope de Vega y Carpio (; 25 November 1562-27 August 1635) was a Spanish playwright, poet, and novelist who was a key figure in the Spanish Golden Age (1492-1659) of Baroque literature.

Luis Vélez de Guevara (born Luis Vélez de Santander) (1 August 1579-10 November 1644) was a Spanish dramatist and novelist.

Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov (Russian: Никола́й Семёнович Леско́в; 16 February [O.S. 4 February] 1831-5 March [O.S. 21 February] 1895) was a Russian novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, who also wrote under the pseudonym M.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca y Henao (UK: , US: ; Spanish: [ˈpeðɾo kaldeˈɾon de la ˈβaɾka]; 17 January 1600-25 May 1681) was a Spanish dramatist, poet, and writer.

An-sky, was a Jewish author, playwright, researcher of Jewish folklore, polemicist, and cultural and political activist.

Thomas Stearns Eliot (26 September 1888-4 January 1965) was a poet, essayist and playwright.

Tang Xianzu (traditional Chinese: 湯顯祖; simplified Chinese: 汤显祖; 24 September 1550-29 July 1616), courtesy name Yireng (義仍), was a Chinese playwright of the Ming Dynasty.

Thomas Lanier Williams III (March 26, 1911, February 25, 1983), known by his pen name Tennessee Williams, was an American playwright and screenwriter.

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 4 February 1959) is a Zimbabwean novelist, playwright and filmmaker.

William Somerset Maugham ( MAWM; 25 January 1874-16 December 1965) was an English writer, known for his plays, novels, and short stories.

Walter Weedon Grossmith (9 June 1854-14 June 1919) was an English writer, actor, painter and playwright best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody (1892) with his brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star George Grossmith.

Leonardo Sciascia (Italian: [leoˈnardo ʃˈʃaʃʃa] ; 8 January 1921-20 November 1989) was an Italian writer, novelist, essayist, playwright, and politician.

Milne was primarily a playwright before the huge success of Winnie-the-Pooh overshadowed his previous work.

He also wrote plays and essays concerning philosophical, moral and religious themes.

Alexandre Dumas (born Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 - 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas pere, was a French novelist and playwright.

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ; 26 February 1802-22 May 1885) was a French Romantic author, poet, essayist, playwright, journalist, human rights activist and politician.

Kimitake Hiraoka (平岡 公威, Hiraoka Kimitake; 14 January 1925-25 November 1970), known by his pen name Yukio Mishima (三島 由紀夫, Mishima Yukio), was a Japanese novelist, playwright, short story writer, actor, martial artist, model, and the leader of an attempted coup d'état that culminated in his seppuku.

His published work includes fourteen novels, three short-story collections, five plays, and five nonfiction works over fifty years; further works have been published since his death.

James Arthur Baldwin (né Jones; August 2, 1924, December 1, 1987) was an American writer and civil rights activist who garnered acclaim for his essays, novels, plays, and poems.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898-14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.

February 18] 1859, May 13, 1916), better known under his pen name Sholem Aleichem, was a Jewish author and playwright who wrote in Yiddish and lived in the Russian Empire and in the United States.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (Portuguese: [ʒwɐˈkĩ maˈɾiɐ maˈʃadu d͡ʒ(i) aˈsis]), sometimes called Bruxo do Cosme Velho (21 June 1839-29 September 1908), was a pioneer Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer, widely regarded as the greatest writer of Brazilian literature.