Playwrights In An Hour

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Aeschylus In an HourAncients
Ayckbourn In an Hour Contemporary
Chekhov In an Hour Modern
Aristophanes In an HourAncients
Miller In an HourModern
Schnitzler In an HourModern
Strindberg In an HourModern
August Wilson In an HourContemporary
Albee In an HourContemporary
O'Neill In an HourModern
Euripides In an HourAncients
Wedekind In an Hour Modern
Shaw In An Hour Modern
Ibsen In an HourModern
Hansberry In An Hour Modern
Moliere In an Hour Modern
Coward In an Hour Modern
Wilde In an Hour Modern
Shepard In an HourContemporary
Beckett In an HourContemporary
Ruhl In an HourContemporary
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Sophocles In an Hour Ancients
Williams In an Hour Modern
Rebeck In an HourContemporary
Wilder In an Hour Modern
Stoppard In an Hour Contemporary
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Future Playwrights In An Hour?

  • A.R. Gurney
  • Albert Camus
  • Albert Innaurato
  • Anna Deavere Smith
  • Antonin Artaud
  • Aphra Ben
  • Arnold Wesker
  • Athol Fugard
  • Ben Jonson
  • Bertolt Brecht
  • Beth Henley
  • Brian Friel
  • Carlo Goldoni
  • Carlo Gozzi
  • Caryl Churchill
  • Charles (Chuck) Mee
  • Charles Ludlam
  • Christopher Durang
  • Christopher Marlowe
  • Clare Boothe Luce
  • Clifford Odets
  • Craig Lucas
  • Cyril Tourneur
  • David Hare
  • David Henry Hwang
  • David Ives
  • David Lindsay-Abaire
  • David Mamet
  • Donald Margulies
  • Elmer Rice
  • Eugene Ionesco
  • Eve Ensler
  • Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Frances Middlton
  • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
  • Freidrich Durrenmatt
  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Georg Kaiser
  • George Farquar
  • George S. Kaufman
  • Gerhart Hauptmann
  • Goethe
  • Gotthold Epraim Lessing
  • Guillaume Apollinaire
  • Harley Granville-Barker
  • Harold Pinter
  • Heinrich von Kleist
  • Henry Fielding
  • Honore Balzac
  • Horton Foote
  • Israel Horovitz
  • Ivan Turgenev
  • Jean Anouilh
  • Jean Cocteau
  • Jean Genet
  • Jean Genet
  • Jean Giradoux
  • Jean Paul Sartre
  • Jean Racine
  • Joe Orton
  • John Dryden
  • John Gay
  • John Guare
  • John Osborne
  • John Patrick Shanley
  • John Synge
  • John Webster
  • Jose Rivera
  • Lanford Wilson
  • Lillian Hellman
  • Lope de Vega
  • Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Luigi Pirandello
  • Lynn Nottage
  • Maria Irene Fornes
  • Marsha Norman
  • Martin McDonagh
  • Martin McDonaugh
  • Maxim Gorky
  • Menander
  • Michael Frayn
  • Neil Labute
  • Neil Simon
  • Nicolai Gogol
  • Nicolai Ostrovsky
  • Nilo Cruz
  • Oliver Goldsmith
  • Paula Vogel
  • Pedro Calderon
  • Pierre Corneille
  • Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan
  • Richard Greenburg
  • Romulus Linney
  • Sean O’Casey
  • Suzan-Lori Parks
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Terrence McNally
  • Thomas Kyd
  • Timberlake Wertenbaker
  • Tina Howe
  • Titus Maccius Plautus**
  • Tony Kushner
  • Tracey Letts
  • Vaclav Havel
  • Victor Hugo
  • Voltaire
  • Wendy Wasserstein
  • William Congreve
  • William Inge
  • William Wycherley