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Some playwrights I like Armando Nascimento Rosa Euripides Oriza Hirata Dacia Maraini Tennessee Williams Richard Brinsley Sheridan Oscar Wilde Roy Williams David Mamet Sophocles Samuel Beckett Christopher Marlowe Jean Racine Antonio Buero Vallejo Arthur Miller Bahram Beyzai Aphra Benn Harold Pinter John Godber Paloma Pedrero Frederico Garcia Lorca Carlo Goldoni William S Yellow Robe Jr Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Luigi Pirandello Enrique Jardiel Poncela Eugen Ionescu Alfred Jarry Joe Orton Biyi Bandele-Thomas Ben Jonson Aeschylus John Millington Synge Brian Patten NF Simpson Peter Weiss Dario Fo Alfred Farag Vijay Tendulkar George Bernard Shaw Bertolt Brecht August Strindberg Tony Harrison Thomas Kyd Henrik Ibsen Moliere Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Shakespeare Anton Chekhov Wole Soyinka Aristophanes Noel Coward

Writing Plays

AllExperts Q & As on writing plays and screenwriting
Forum for playwrights and scriptwriters.

The Drama Workshop
Ideas and tips on playwrighting.

Essays on the Craft of Dramatic Writing
By Bill Johnson.



Journals

Gowanus
International online journal of "idea and observation."

Guernica
Art and Politics.

Insight for Playwrights
Subscription-based e-zine for playwrights with an interesting "recommended reading" list of books to buy on the craft of playwrighting.

Intercultural Platform
International literature and art.

Times Literary Supplement
Sometimes pretentious guide to British literary events.

Village Voice Literary Supplement
Sometimes pretentious guide to what's on in NYC.