Playwrights L-Z, WHI-ZUC
Step into the work of playwrights whose ear for dialogue, sense of conflict, and theatrical invention have shaped stages and audiences around the world.
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White, Edmund
Edmund White was an American writer of novels, short fiction, and nonfiction whose critically acclaimed work focuses......
White, Patrick
Patrick White was an Australian novelist and playwright who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. White was......
White, T H
T. H. White was an English novelist, social historian, and satirist who was best known for his brilliant adaptation......
Whitehead, William
William Whitehead was a British poet laureate from 1757 to 1785. Whitehead was educated at Winchester College and......
Whiting, John Robert
John Robert Whiting was a playwright whose intellectually demanding dramas avoided the audience-pleasing formulas......
Widmann, Joseph Viktor
Joseph Viktor Widmann was a Swiss writer, editor, and critic. Widmann settled in Switzerland early in life. As......
Wied, Gustav
Gustav Wied was a Danish dramatist, novelist, and satirist chiefly remembered for a series of what he called satyr-dramas.......
Wieland, Christoph Martin
Christoph Martin Wieland was a poet and man of letters of the German Rococo period whose work spans the major trends......
Wilbur, Richard
Richard Wilbur was an American poet associated with the New Formalist movement. Wilbur was educated at Amherst......
Wilde, Oscar
Oscar Wilde was an Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose enduring fame rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian......
Wilder, Thornton
Thornton Wilder was an American writer whose innovative novels and plays reflect his views of the universal truths......
Wildgans, Anton
Anton Wildgans was an Austrian dramatist and poet known for his mystical dramas charged with the symbolic messages......
Willems, Paul
Paul Willems was a Belgian novelist and playwright whose playful strategies and fascination with language, doubles,......
Williams, Emlyn
Emlyn Williams was a Welsh actor and playwright, author of some highly effective, often macabre plays. Williams......
Williams, Tennessee
Tennessee Williams was an American dramatist whose plays reveal a world of human frustration in which sex and violence......
Williams, William Carlos
William Carlos Williams was an American poet who succeeded in making the ordinary appear extraordinary through......
Williamson, David
David Williamson is an Australian dramatist and screenwriter known for topical satiric comedies that display his......
Wilson, August
August Wilson was a playwright who penned an acclaimed cycle of plays, each set in a different decade of the 20th......
Wilson, Lanford
Lanford Wilson was an American playwright, a pioneer of the Off-Off-Broadway and regional theatre movements. His......
Wilson, Robert
Robert Wilson was an American playwright, director, and producer known for his avant-garde theater works. Wilson......
Witkiewicz, Stanisław Ignacy
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz was a Polish painter, novelist, and playwright, well known as a dramatist in the period......
Wittig, Monique
Monique Wittig was a French avant-garde novelist and radical feminist whose works include unconventional narratives......
Wodehouse, P.G.
P.G. Wodehouse was an English-born comic novelist, short-story writer, lyricist, and playwright, best known as......
Wolfe, Thomas
Thomas Wolfe was an American writer best known for his first book, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and his other autobiographical......
Woollcott, Alexander
Alexander Woollcott was an American author, critic, and actor known for his acerbic wit. A large, portly man, he......
Wycherley, William
William Wycherley was an English dramatist who attempted to reconcile in his plays a personal conflict between......
Wyspiański, Stanisław
Stanisław Wyspiański was a Polish dramatist and painter, a leading artist of the early 20th-century period who......
Xia Yan
Xia Yan was a Chinese writer, journalist, and playwright known for his leftist plays and films. Xia was sent to......
Xiong Foxi
Xiong Foxi was a Chinese playwright who helped create popular drama intended to entertain and educate the peasantry.......
Yavorov, Peyo
Peyo Yavorov was a Bulgarian poet and dramatist, the founder of the Symbolist movement in Bulgarian poetry. Yavorov......
Yeats, William Butler
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer who is considered one of the greatest English-language......
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny
Yevgeny Yevtushenko was a poet and spokesman for the younger post-Stalin generation of Russian poets. His internationally......
Young, Edward
Edward Young was an English poet, dramatist, and literary critic, author of The Complaint: or, Night Thoughts (1742–45),......
Yovkov, Yordan
Yordan Yovkov was a Bulgarian short-story writer, novelist, and dramatist whose stories of Balkan peasant life......
Yū Miri
Yū Miri is an award-winning Japanese author of Korean descent whose works are unsparing in their depiction of destructive......
Zamyatin, Yevgeny
Yevgeny Zamyatin was a Russian novelist, playwright, and satirist, one of the most brilliant and cultured minds......
Zangwill, Israel
Israel Zangwill was a novelist, playwright, and Zionist leader, one of the earliest English interpreters of Jewish......
Zapolska, Gabriela
Gabriela Zapolska was a Polish novelist and playwright of the Naturalist school. Having tried unsuccessfully to......
Zeami
Zeami was the greatest playwright and theorist of the Japanese Noh theatre. He and his father, Kan’ami (1333–84),......
Zhang Junxiang
Zhang Junxiang was a leading playwright and motion-picture director in China. Zhang was educated at Qinghua University......
Zindel, Paul
Paul Zindel was an American playwright and novelist whose largely autobiographical work features poignant, alienated......
Zorrilla y Moral, José
José Zorrilla y Moral was a poet and dramatist, the major figure of the nationalist wing of the Spanish Romantic......
Zuckmayer, Carl
Carl Zuckmayer was a German playwright whose works deal critically with many of the problems engendered by two......