British playwrights
English theater writers
British playwrights are dramatists from Britain—writers who create works for theatrical performance.
The term typically evokes figures like Shakespeare, Marlowe, Wilde, Pinter, and Stoppard, whose works define much of English-language theater.
The course surveys British playwrights from the Elizabethan era to the present.
- ElizabethanOf late 1500s England
- JacobeanPertaining to King James's reign
- Restoration1660s monarchical revival
- blank verseUnrhymed iambic pentameter
- National TheatreMajor London performance venue
George Bernard Shaw · William Shakespeare · drawing room comedy · Oscar Wilde · Christopher Marlowe · Royal Shakespeare Company · social commentary · Victorian · Edwardian · Georgian · Contemporary · stage directions · West End
British playwrightsArthur Miller
American dramatist, mid-century
Tennessee Williams · Eugene O'Neill · August Wilson · Molière · Jean-Paul Sartre
British playwrightsBritish novelists
Fiction writers from Britain
British poets · Charles Dickens · Jane Austen · George Orwell · Virginia Woolf
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