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Playwrights from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

48 published records, arranged alphabetically. Each entry is published only where a named source supports it.

Arnold RidleyAuthor · BooksWilliam Arnold Ridley (7 January 1896 – 12 March 1984) was an English playwright and actor, known early in his career for writing the 1925 play The Ghost Train and later in life for the…
Augusta, Lady GregoryAuthor · BooksIsabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (Persse; 15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.
Caroline NortonAuthor · BooksCaroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, Lady Stirling-Maxwell (née Sheridan; 22 March 1808 – 15 June 1877) was an active English social reformer and author.
Constance SmedleyIllustrator · IllustrationAnne Constance Smedley (20 June 1876 – 9 March 1941) was a British artist, playwright, author and founder of the International Association of Lyceum Clubs.
Cyril TourneurAuthor · BooksCyril Tourneur (died 28 February 1626) was an English soldier, diplomat and dramatist who wrote The Atheist's Tragedy (published 1611);
David CroftPerson · Music memorabiliaDavid Croft was a British playwright, television director, composer, screenwriter and actor (1922–2011). He was born in Sandbanks and died in Tavira.
Doris LessingAuthor · BooksDoris May Lessing (Tayler; 22 October 1919 – 17 November 2013) was a British novelist – sometimes identified as Rhodesian early in her career – and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature…
Dylan ThomasAuthor · BooksDylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer, whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no…
Edward Bulwer-LyttonAuthor · BooksEdward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician.
F. C. BurnandAuthor · BooksIllustration — From The History of "Punch"
Fleeming JenkinAuthor · BooksHenry Charles Fleeming Jenkin FRS FRSE (25 March 1833 – 12 June 1885) was a British engineer, inventor, economist, linguist, actor and dramatist known as the inventor of the cable car or…
Frances Anne KemblePerson · Film memorabiliaFrances Anne Kemble (later Butler; 27 November 180915 January 1893) was an English actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century.
George ChapmanAuthor · BooksGeorge Chapman (c. 1559 – 12 May 1634) was an English dramatist, translator and poet.
George Colman the YoungerAuthor · BooksGeorge Colman (21 October 1762 – 17 October 1836), known as "the Younger", was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer. He was the son of George Colman the Elder.
George EtheregeAuthor · BooksSir George Etherege (c. 1636 – c.
George Mackay BrownAuthor · BooksGeorge Mackay Brown (17 October 1921 – 13 April 1996) was a Scottish poet, author and dramatist with a distinctly Orcadian character.
Hannah MoreAuthor · BooksHannah More (2 February 1745 – 7 September 1833) was an English writer, philanthropist, poet and verse dramatist.
Israel ZangwillAuthor · BooksIsrael Zangwill (21 January 1864 1 August 1926) was a British author at the forefront of Zionism during the late 19th century, and as such was a close associate of Theodor Herzl.
J. M. BarrieAuthor · BooksSir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (9 May 1860 19 June 1937) was a British novelist and playwright.
Jerome K. JeromeAuthor · BooksJerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
Joanna BaillieAuthor · BooksJoanna Baillie (11 September 1762 – 23 February 1851) was a Scottish poet and dramatist, known for such works as Plays on the Passions (three volumes, 1798–1812) and Fugitive Verses (1840).
John GalsworthyAuthor · BooksJohn Galsworthy (14 August 1867 – 31 January 1933) was an English novelist and playwright.
John Maxwell EdmondsAuthor · BooksJohn Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs.
Justin Huntly McCarthyAuthor · BooksJustin Huntly McCarthy (1859 – 20 March 1936) was an Irish writer, historian, and nationalist politician.
Lajos BíróAuthor · BooksLajos Bíró was a Hungarian and British screenwriter, journalist, theatre critic, playwright and writer (1880–1948). He was born in Oradea and died in London.
Lawrence DurrellAuthor · BooksLawrence George Durrell (27 February 1912 – 7 November 1990) was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer.
Mary ShelleyAuthor · BooksMary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel Frankenstein;
Montague SummersAuthor · BooksAugustus Montague Summers (10 April 1880 – 10 August 1948) was an English author, clergyman, and teacher.
Oskar KokoschkaIllustrator · IllustrationOskar Kokoschka (lang; 1 March 188622 February 1980) was an Austrian (though, at times during his life, he had also Czech and British citizenship) artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best…
Padraic ColumAuthor · BooksPadraic Colum (8 December 1881 – 11 January 1972) was an Irish poet, novelist, dramatist, biographer, playwright, children's author and collector of folklore.
Padraic FallonAuthor · BooksPadraic Fallon (3 January 1905 – 9 October 1974) was an Irish poet and playwright.
R. C. SherriffAuthor · BooksRobert Cedric Sherriff, FSA, FRSL (6 June 1896 – 13 November 1975)[1] was an English writer best known for his play Journey's End,[2] which was based on his experiences as an army officer…
Robert BrowningAuthor · BooksRobert Browning (7 May 1812 – 12 December 1889) was an English poet and playwright whose dramatic monologues put him high among the Victorian poets.
Robert Hugh BensonAuthor · BooksRobert Hugh Benson AFSC KC*SG KGCHS (18 November 1871 – 19 October 1914) was an English Catholic priest and writer.
Robert Louis StevensonAuthor · Books
Robert MorleyPerson · Film memorabiliaRobert Adolph Wilton Morley (26 May 1908 – 3 June 1992) was an English actor who enjoyed a lengthy career in both Britain and the United States.
Robert Williams BuchananAuthor · BooksRobert Williams Buchanan (18 August 1841 – 10 June 1901) was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Several of his works were adapted into films.
Saunders LewisAuthor · BooksSaunders Lewis (born John Saunders Lewis; 15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985) was a Welsh politician, poet, dramatist, Medievalist, and literary critic.
Sophia LeeAuthor · BooksSophia Lee (1750 – 13 March 1824) was an English novelist, dramatist and educator. She was a formative writer of Gothic fiction.
Thomas LodgeAuthor · BooksThomas Lodge (c. 1557September 1625) was an English writer and medical practitioner whose life spanned the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
Thomas Love PeacockAuthor · BooksThomas Love Peacock (18 October 1785 – 23 January 1866) was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company.
Thomas Lovell BeddoesAuthor · BooksThomas Lovell Beddoes (30 June 1803 – 26 January 1849) was an English poet, dramatist and physician.

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