Drama & theatre
Tragedies, history plays, comedies of manners and everything written for the stage.
Landmark works
- 1602 Hamlet by William Shakespeare
- Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
- 1623 Macbeth by William Shakespeare
- 1608 King Lear by William Shakespeare
- 1622 Othello by William Shakespeare · read free
- Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
- 1623 The Tempest by William Shakespeare
- 1600 The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare · read free
- 1623 Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
- 1623 Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
- 2005 The Constant Gardener by John le Carré
- 1945 The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie
- 1891 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
- 2012 The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling
- 1604 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
- 1800 The Beggar's Opera by John Gay · read free
- 1596 Edward III by Thomas Kyd
- The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe
- 1817 Manfred by Lord Byron
- 1910 Howards End by E. M. Forster · read free
- The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
- 1956 Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
- 1872 A Dog of Flanders by Ouida
- Black Summer by Warren Ellis
- 1594 Edward II by Christopher Marlowe
- 1998 Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
- Dido, Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
- 1593 The Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe
- 1671 Samson Agonistes by John Milton
- 1977 Noises Off by Michael Frayn
Writers
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William Shakespeare1564–1616 · English playwright and poet (1564–1616) -
Lord Byron1788–1824 · English Romantic poet and lyricist (1788–1824) -
Agatha Christie1890–1976 · English mystery and detective writer (1890–1976) -
J. K. Rowling1965 · English author (born 1965) -
John Milton1608–1674 · English poet and civil servant (1608–1674) -
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822 · British Romantic poet (1792–1822) -
Samuel Johnson1709–1784 · English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784) -
Thomas Hardy1840–1928 · English novelist and poet (1840–1928) -
Alfred Tennyson1809–1892 · British Poet Laureate (1809–1892) -
John Galsworthy1867–1933 · English novelist and playwright (1867–1933) -
Harold Pinter1930–2008 · British playwright (1930–2008) -
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593 · English dramatist, poet and translator (1564–1593) -
John Dryden1631–1700 · 17th-century English poet and playwright (1631–1700) -
John le Carré1931–2020 · British novelist and spy (1931–2020) -
E. M. Forster1879–1970 · English novelist (1879-1970) -
Ben Jonson1572–1637 · English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637) -
Aphra Behn1640–1689 · British playwright, poet and spy (1640–1689) -
Noël Coward1899–1973 · English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer (1899–1973) -
Edward Bulwer-Lytton1803–1873 · British statesman and author (1803–1873) -
Horace Walpole1717–1797 · English writer and politician (1717–1797) -
Mark Rylance1960 · English actor, playwright and theatre director -
Philip Sidney1554–1586 · English poet, courtier, diplomat (1554-1586) -
Mike Leigh1943 · English writer and director (born 1943) -
John Osborne1929–1994 · English playwright (1929-1994)
And 138 more
- David Mitchell (1969)
- George Arliss (1868)
- William Congreve (1670)
- Peter Morgan (1963)
- Peter Shaffer (1926)
- John Gay (1685)
- Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775)
- George Chapman (1559)
- John Burgoyne (1722)
- Kate Atkinson (1951)
- Stephen Baxter (1957)
- Hayley Squires (1988)
- Warren Ellis (1968)
- Thomas Kyd (1558)
- Ouida (1839)
- Peter F. Hamilton (1960)
- Thomas Middleton (1580)
- Arnold Wesker (1932)
- Terence Rattigan (1911)
- Hannah More (1745)
- Michael Frayn (1933)
- Francis Beaumont (1584)
- David Hare (1947)
- Caryl Churchill (1938)
- Arnold Ridley (1896)
- Thomas Dekker (1572)
- Felicia Hemans (1793)
- Willy Russell (1947)
- Philip Massinger (1583)
- James Graham (1982)
- Stephen Poliakoff (1952)
- Tony Harrison (1937)
- Edward Bond (1934)
- John Marston (1576)
- Heidi Thomas (1962)
- Derek Benfield (1926)
- David Seidler (1937)
- Thomas Lodge (1558)
- John Suckling (1609)
- Thomas Heywood (1574)
- Margaret Kennedy (1896)
- Mark Ravenhill (1966)
- Adam Roberts (1965)
- Mary Russell Mitford (1787)
- Tim Plester (1970)
- Nicholas Rowe (1674)
- Matthew Warchus (1966)
- Louise Doughty (1963)
- James Shirley (1596)
- Catherine Johnson (1957)
- Lucy Prebble (1980)
- Kwame Kwei-Armah (1967)
- Beverley Nichols (1898)
- Harley Granville-Barker (1877)
- Thomas Otway (1652)
- Brandon Thomas (1848)
- Guy Bolton (1884)
- Olga Petrova (1884)
- Catharine Trotter (1674)
- Richard Cumberland (1731)
- Laurence Housman (1865)
- Nigel Williams (1948)
- Moira Buffini (1965)
- Gérard Watkins (1965)
- Samuel Foote (1720)
- Sophia Lee (1750)
- George Lillo (1691)
- David Eldridge (1973)
- Derek Marlowe (1938)
- Christabel Marshall (1871)
- Neil Brand (1958)
- Polly Stenham (1986)
- Jane Porter (1776)
- Edward Carey (1970)
- Hannah Cowley (1743)
- James Planché (1796)
- Henry Arthur Jones (1851)
- Morgan Lloyd Malcolm (1980)
- Cosmo Hamilton (1870)
- Francis Brett Young (1884)
- Guy du Maurier (1865)
- Lewis Theobald (1688)
- Jo Clifford (1950)
- Laurence Irving (1871)
- F. C. Burnand (1836)
- David Mercer (1928)
- Peter Quilter (1965)
- Clifford Bax (1886)
- Wilson Barrett (1846)
- Henry V. Esmond (1869)
- Tom Hood (1835)
- William Cartwright (1611)
- Thomas William Robertson (1829)
- John Oxenford (1812)
- Adrian Ross (1859)
- William Matthew Scott (1893)
- Harry Arthur Saintsbury (1867)
- John Day (1574)
- Robert Ferguson (1948)
- William Killigrew (1606)
- Basil Hood (1864)
- Gabrielle Enthoven (1868)
- Sydney Grundy (1848)
- William Evans Burton (1804)
- Frederick Reynolds (1764)
- Leon Gordon (1884)
- John Lacy (1615)
- William Kenrick (1725)
- Prince Hoare (1755)
- Sutton Vane (1888)
- Francis Charles Philips (1849)
- Henry Pettitt (1848)
- Sarah Lane (1825)
- Thomas Legge (1535)
- Clare Tree Major (1880)
- John Fawcett (1768)
- Edward Rose (1849)
- Maurice Browne (1881)
- Henry Hamilton (1854)
- Paul Pickering (1952)
- Hubert Henry Davies (1869)
- Arthur Law (1844)
- Richard Claude Critchett (1853)
- Benjamin Hoadly (1706)
- John Palgrave Simpson (1807)
- James Plumptre (1771)
- Cyril Harcourt (1872)
- Robert Harris (1957)
- Charles Dibdin (1745)
- Martin Crimp (1956)
- Patrick Marber (1964)
- Simon Stephens (1971)
- John Dennis (1658)
- William Hayley (1745)
- Tim Crouch (1964)
- Sir Henry Dudley, 1st Baronet (1745)
- Leo Butler (1974)
- Sonali Bhattacharyya (1978)