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1. Bertolt Brecht

   Author of Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic, Mother Courage and Her Children, The resistible rise of Arturo Ui
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2. Harold Pinter

   Author of The Caretaker, Complete Works, Vol. 1, A Slight Ache: And Other Plays: "A Night Out", "The Dwarfs", - "Revue Sketches"
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3. Tom Stoppard

   Author of Jumpers, The Real Inspector Hound, Night and Day
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4. Caryl Churchill

   Author of Top Girls, Mad Forest: A Play from Romania, Cloud 9
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5. Samuel Beckett

   Author of Happy Days, Krapp’s Last Tape & Embers, The Complete Dramatic Works
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6. Anton Chekhov

   Author of Chekhov plays : The cherry orchard + The seagull + Three sisters + Uncle Vanya + vaudevilles, The Three Sisters, Ivanov / The Seagull / Uncle Vanya / Three Sisters / The Cherry Orchard
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7. David Mamet

   Author of Oleanna, Glengarry Glen Ross: A Play
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8. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of Three Plays for Puritans, Arms and the Man, Major Barbara
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9. John Willett

   Author of The theatre of Bertolt Brecht : a study from eight aspects, Brecht : Collected plays : Volume 7 : The Visions of Simone Machard + Schweyk in the Second World War + The Caucasian Chalk Circle + The Duchess of Malfi
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10. August Strindberg

    Author of Plays One: The Father, Miss Julie, The Ghost Sonata (Methuen World Dramatists Series) (Vol 1), The Plays of Strindberg: Volume 2
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11. Henrik Ibsen

    Author of Rosmersholm / The Lady from the Sea / Little Eyolf, Hedda Gabler, Ghosts / An Enemy of the People / When We Dead Awaken
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12. Martin Esslin

    Author of Brecht: The Man and His Work, The Theatre of the Absurd
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13. Frank Wedekind

    Author of Spring Awakening, Spring Awakening (Methuen's Theatre Classics)
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14. John Osborne

    Author of Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer
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15. Plautus

    Author of The Pot of Gold and Other Plays, The Rope and Other Plays
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16. Dario Fo

    Author of Accidental Death of an Anarchist, We Won't Pay! We Won't Pay!
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17. Charles Chilton

    Author of Oh What a Lovely War [play]
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18. Jean Anouilh

    Author of Becket, The Lark, The Waltz of the Toreadors
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19. Joe Orton

    Author of The Complete Plays
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20. Peter Shaffer

    Author of Equus, The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Four Plays: The Private Ear / The Public Eye / The White Liars / Black Comedy
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21. Sam Shepard

    Author of Seven Plays, Simpatico, Fool for Love and Other Plays
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22. Jean Genet

    Author of Deathwatch, The Balcony
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23. Peter Weiss

    Author of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
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24. Michael Frayn

    Author of Copenhagen
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25. Edward Albee

    Author of The American Dream and The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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26. Angela Carter

    Author of Wise Children, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman, The Magic Toyshop
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27. Brian Friel

    Author of Faith Healer, Translations
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28. Alan Bennett

    Author of Talking Heads, Writing Home, Untold Stories
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29. Eugène Ionesco

    Author of Four Plays, Rhinoceros / The Leader / The Future Is in Eggs, Rhinoceros
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30. Peter Brook

    Author of The Empty Space: A Book about the Theatre
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31. Arthur Miller

    Author of A View from the Bridge, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge & All My Sons
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32. Tennessee Williams

    Author of Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie, Plays 1957-1980, The Glass Menagerie
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33. John Arden

    Author of Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
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34. Alan Ayckbourn

    Author of Norman Conquests: Table Manners / Living Together / Round and Round the Garden, Confusions
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35. Thomas Middleton

    Author of Three Jacobean Tragedies: The White Devil, The Revenger's Tragedy, The Changeling, The Changeling
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36. Maria M. Delgado

    Author of In Contact With the Gods?: Directors Talk Theatre
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37. Constantin Stanislavski

    Author of An Actor Prepares, An Actor's Handbook: An Alphabetical Arrangement of Concise Statements on Aspects of Acting
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38. Ben Jonson

    Author of Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist, Three Comedies: Volpone, the Alchemist and Bartholomew Fair
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39. John Millington Synge

    Author of The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays
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40. Margaret Drabble

    Author of The Millstone
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41. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

    Author of The Visit, The Physicists
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42. Eugene O'Neill

    Author of The Iceman Cometh, Long Day's Journey into Night
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43. Mervyn Peake

    Author of Titus Groan, Titus Alone, Gormenghast
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44. Jane Austen

    Author of Persuasion / A Memoir of Jane Austen
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45. Thornton Wilder

    Author of Our Town, Three Plays by Thornton Wilder
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46. Georg Büchner

    Author of Woyzeck
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47. Clifford Odets

    Author of Waiting for Lefty and Other Plays
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48. Sarah Kane

    Author of Sarah Kane: Complete Plays
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49. Robert G. Lawrence

    Author of Restoration Plays [Everyman]
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50. Terence

    Author of The Comedies
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