Whether working from script or devising your own performance, if you aren't aware of what others have done, how will you ever develop? Use these links to sites about Dramatists worth looking at, but then go and see/read the plays! |
Links
If you want to suggest any then
email: agc@collegest.org.uk with the name of the dramamtist and/or link
and which plays you would recommend.
| Name | Origin | Dates | Details | Links | Some Plays | |
| Fernando | Arrabal | Spanish | b.1932 | Novelist, Poet, Essayist, Film Director, Artist as well as Playwright. | his site with some graphics | -The
Two Executioners |
| Noel | Coward | British |
b.1899 d.1973 |
Actor, Playwright, cabaret artist | -Private
Lives -The Vortex -HayFever -Cavalcade |
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| Sarah | Daniels | British | b.1957 | Controversial modern playwright whose work like many contemporary playwrights started life at the Royal Court Theatre, London |
-Ripen
Our Darkness |
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| George | Farquhar | Irish | b.1677 d.1707 |
Actor, Soldier and Playwright of the later Restoration Comedy period | Full
details Biog and Links Brief biog |
-The
Beaux Stratagem -The Recruiting Officer |
| Carlo | Goldoni | Italian | b.1707 d.1792 |
Together with his rival Carlo Gozzi scripted the Commedia dell' Arte in 150 plays | -The
Servant of Two Masters |
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| Thomas | Kyd | English | b.1558 d.1594 |
London scrivener's son, wrote the most popular play of the Elizabethan & Jacobean stage. Lodged with Marlowe, imprisoned, tortured, died in poverty. | -The
Spanish Tragedy |
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| Slavomir | Mrozek | Polish | b.1930 | Polish playwright, short story writer and popular newspaper cartoonist | biog and
another plays & Polish culture site |
-Tango |
| Clifford | Odets | American | b.1906 d.1963 |
Ist generation American, became actor in Clurman & Strasberg's Group Theatre, wrote plays and Hollywood scripts. Target for McCarthy's witch-hunt with Bogart & Bacall but escaped the black-list. | -Waiting
For Lefty -Awake & Sing - Golden Boy -Paradise Lost |
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| T.W. | Robertson | British | b.1829 d.1871 |
article | -Cast |
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| Friedrich | Schiller | German | 1759-1805 | German playwright, poet and essayist. Developed the Weimar Theatre with friend and fellow poet/dramatist Goethe later known as "Weimar Classicism" in style of Sturm und Drang (Storm & Stress) |
-The
Robbers |
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| Lucius Annaeus |
Seneca | Roman |
b.4
or 3 BC d. 65 AD |
Orator, Stoic Philosopher, Dramatist & Statesman Tutor to the young Nero who later instructed him to commit suicide. Influenced Kyd |
set
of links |
-Hercules
Furens -Troades |
| George Bernard | Shaw | |||||
| Sir Tom | Stoppard | British |
b.1937 | Leading British playwright for nearly 4 decades especially if you like a philosophical dramatic challenge!! also novels and screenplays inc. Sh.in Love |
-Rosencrantz
& Guildenstern Are Dead |
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| August | Strindberg | -Miss
Julie |
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| Arnold | Wesker | British | b.1932 | Over 40 plays, novels and essays. First came to fore in 1958 and linked to "kitchen-sink drama" style. Is admired world -wide and is still writing | -The
Kitchen |
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| William 'Manly' |
Wycherley | British | b.1640 d.1716 |
Shropshire playwright, poet and libertine | -The
Country Wife |
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