Playwrights

Writers for the stage.

People in Playwrights

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Creating Winnie-the-Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood.

Writing Mother Courage and developing epic theatre.

Writing Les Misérables and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame.

Creating Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up.

Writing major Irish poetry and helping establish the Abbey Theatre.

Writing Death and the King’s Horseman and winning Africa’s first literature Nobel.

Writing The Lady of the Camellias, the source of La traviata.

Writing Faust and The Sorrows of Young Werther.

Creating Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple and ingenious murder mysteries.

Writing The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, with wit that exposes social hypocrisy.

Writing Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, dramas about private failure and public pressure.