# History of Western Theatre: 17th Century to Now/Alphabetical list of playwrights (died 1855-1955)

This list of recent authors has been added for the benefit of readers in jurisdictions where the copyright expires a fixed period after the authors life, rather than date of publication or renewal.
Annotated by year of death
* Ade, George 1944
* Afford, Malcolm 1954
* Afinogenov, Alexander 1941
* Anderson, Arthur 1942
* Andreyev, Leonid 1919
* Arlt, Roberto
* Arniches, Carlos 1943
* Artaud, Antonin 1948
* Arthur, Joseph 1906
* Asche, Oscar 1936
* Bacon, Frank 1922
* Baker, George Melville 1890
* Balderston, John L. 1954
* Bangs, John Kendrick 1922
* Barrie, James Murray 1937
* Barry, Phillip 1949
* Baring, Maurice 1945
* Beach, Rex 1949
* Beith, John Hay 1952
* Belasco, David 1930
* Bennett, Arnold 1931
* Benelli, Sam 1949
* Besier, Rudolf 1942
* Binyon, Laurence 1943
* Birinski, Leo 1951
* Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne 1910
* Black, Stephen 1931
* Brown, Abbie Farwell 1927
* Bulgakov, Mikhail 1940
* Burnard, Francis Cowley 1917
* Burrill, Mary P. 1946
* Byron, Henry James 1884
* Calderon, George 1915
* Caine, Sir Hall 1931
* Čapek, Karel 1938
* Chekov, Anton 1904
* Collette 1953
* Collison, Wilson 1941
* Colton, John 1946
* Cowl, Jane 1950
* Davis, Richard Harding 1916
* de Lorde, André 1942
* Dickens, Charles 1880
* Dixon, Thomas, Jr. 1946
* Dowson, Ernest 1900
* Drinkwater, John 1937
* Drury, William Price 1948
* Du Maurier, Guy 1915
* Duprez, Fred 1938
* Epstein, Philip G. 1952
* Ewing, Juliana Horatia 1885
* Feydeau, Georges 1921
* Fitch, Clyde 1909
* Flecker, James Elroy 1915
* Fort, Garrett 1945
* Frank, Bruno 1945
* Fulton, Maude 1950
* Gadkari, Ram Ganesh 1919
* Galsworthy, John 1933
* Gates, Eleanor 1950
* Gilbert, W. S. 1911
* Giraudoux, Jean 1944
* Glaspell, Susan 1948
* Glass, Montague 1934
* Goddard, Charles 1951
* Gorky, Maxim 1936
* Granville-Barker, Harley 1946
* Gregory, Lady Augusta 1933
* Hackett, Walter C. 1944
* Hasler, Karel 1941
* Hazelton, George Cochrane 1921
* Hauptmann, Gerhart 1946
* Hawtrey, Charles 1923
* Herne, James A.1901
* Hoffe, Monckton 1951
* Hopwood, Avery 1928
* Howard, Sidney Coe 1939
* Howells, William Dean 1920
* Hughes, Hatcher 1945
* Hunyady, Sándor 1942
* Jackson, Frederick 1953
* James, Henry 1916
* Jones Henry Arthur 1929
* Kailasam, T. P. 1946
* Klein, Charles 1919
* Lavedan, Henri 1940
* Law, Arthur 1913
* Le Pera, Alfredo 1935
* Lewis, Sinclair 1951
* Locke, Edward 1945
* Lonsdale, Frederick 1954
* Lorca, Federico García 1936
* Magnus, Julian 1905
* Mack, Willard 1934
* MacSwiney, Terence 1920
* Maeterlinck, Maurice 1949
* Mayo, Margaret 1951
* Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1930
* McKinnel, Norman 1932
* Millay, Edna St. Vincent 1950
* Moffat, Graham 1951
* Moore, Thomas Sturge 1944
* Morton, Michael 1931
* Mühsam, Erich 1934
* Manners, J. Hartley 1928
* Mizner, Wilson 1933
* Oliphant, Ernest Henry Clark 1936
* O'Riordan, Conal Holmes O'Connell 1948
* O'Neill, Eugene 1953
* Parker, Louis N. 1944
* Pirandello, Luigi 1936
* Pinero, Arthur Wing 1934
* Prasad, Jaishankar 1937
* Przybyszewska, Stanisława 1935
* Raghava, Bellary 1946
* Rostand, Edmond 1918
* Robins, Elizabeth 1952
* Rudd, Steele 1935
* Sardou, Victorien 1907
* Schnitzler, Arthur 1931
* Shaw, George Bernard 1950
* Shawqi, Ahmed 1932
* Sheldon, Edward 1946
* Shiels, George 1949
* Sierra, Gregorio Martínez 1947
* Steell, Willis 1942
* Strindberg, August 1912
* Sudermann, Hermann 1928
* Summers, Montague 1948
* Sutro, Alfred 1933
* Swears, Herbert 1946
* Swinburne, Algernon Charles1909
* Synge, John Millington 1905
* Thomas, Augustus 1934
* Toller, Ernst 1939
* Turner, Walter J. 1946
* Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1892
* Thomas, Brandon1918
* Thompson, Alexander. M 1948
* Turgenev, Ivan 1885
* Walsh, William Thomas 1949
* Walter, Eugene 1941
* Webster, Jean 1916
* Wedekind, Frank 1918
* Willard, John 1942
* Wilson, Harry Leon 1939
* Wilde, Percival 1953
* Zangwill, Israel 1926
* Zola, Emile 1902