Presentations on notable playwrights

Caddo Magnet Players: Applause
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Aristophanes, (ca. 446 BC-385 BC) (Greece)
Sophocles, (497/6 BC – winter 406/5 BC) (Greece)
Euripides (ca. 485 BC-ca. 406 BC) (Greece)


William Shakespeare, (1564–1616)
Gustave Flaubert
Maxim Gorky (1868–1936) (Russia)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) (Germany)
Victor Hugo (France)
Molière, (1622–1673)

Edward Albee (born 1928) (United States)
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989) (Ireland)
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) (Sweden)
L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) (United States)
Albert Camus (1913–1960) (France)
Karel Čapek (1890–1938) (Czech Rep.)
Noël Coward (1899–1973) (England)
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) (United States)
Agatha Christie (1890–1976) (England)
Oscar Wilde (Ireland)

Christopher Durang
T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) (United States/England)
Bruce Jay Friedman (born 1930) (United States)
Günter Grass (born 1927) (Germany)
Lorraine Hansberry (1930–1965)
Langston Hughes (United States)
Henrik Ibsen (Norway)
Alfred Jarry (France)
James Joyce (Ireland)
Allan Stewart Konigsberg (United States)
Neil LaBute
Tony Kushner
David Mamet, (born 1947) (United States)
Arthur Miller (American. 1915–2005)
Sean O'Casey (1880–1964) (Ireland)
Eugene O'Neill (1888–1953)

Harold Pinter (1930–2008) (England)
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) (Italy)
Jean-Paul Sartre
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
Neil SimonGeorge Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

Sam Shepard (born 1943)
Tom Stoppard
August Strindberg
Thornton Wilder (United States)
Tennessee Williams (United States)