Dramatists

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Dramatists
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Greek Drama

• Aeschylus
• Sophicles
• Euripedes
• Aristophanes

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Medeival Drama

• Titles
• The Second Shepherds Play
• Everyman

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Renaissance Drama

• Authors include
• Christopher Marlowe
• William Shakespeare
• Ben Johnson

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French Neoclassical andEnglish Restoratiion

• Moliere
• Jean Racine
• William Congrieve
• Richard Brinsley Sheridan
• Oliver Goldsmith

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Modern Drama Backgrounds and Beginnings

• Henril Ibsen
• August Strindberg
• Anton Chekov
• George Bernard Shaw
• Oscar Wilde
• Edmund Rostand

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Modern Drama Reactions modifications

• Eugene ONell
• Luigi Prandello
• Bertolt Brecht
• Arthur Miller

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• Tennessee Williams
• Samuel Beckert
• Lillian Hellman
• Noel Coward
• John Osbourne

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• Jean Anouih
• Jean-Paul Satre
• Sean OCasey
• John Synge

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Contemporary Drama

• Harold Pinter
• Tom Stoppard
• Sam Shepard
• August Wilson

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• David Mamet
• Edward Albee
• Neil Simon
• Wendy Wasserstein
• Beth Henley