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List of playwrights by date of death (1943-1955) by year of death

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• 1954 Malcolm Afford "Lady in Danger" (1949) full length comedy thriller - features a tape recorder.
• 1954 John L. Balderston Genius of the Marne (1919) list of works "Red Planet" (1932) "Dracula" (1927)
• 1954 Frederick Lonsdale Aren't we all (1924) Last Days of Mrs. Cheyney (1927)
• 1953 Frederick J. Jackson The Naughty Wife (1941) Full House:a farce 1915 Hidden Princess: a modern romance 1910
• 1953 Percival Wilde The Noble Lord - one act comedy The Reckoning - one act comedy Confessional (1916) His return (one act 1918) The sequel (one act 1922) The noble lord, The traitor, A house of cards, Playing with fire, The finger of God (one act plays ?date
• 1953 Collette copies in englishoks/11737| Barks and Purrs (date?)
• 1953 Nikolai Evreinov "Merry Death" Pantomime 1915 translated by C.E.Bechhofer (d. 1949)
• 1953 Eugene O'Neill ILE Hairy Ape Anna Christie The First Man Anthology The Straw Iceman Cometh 1946 Moon for Misbegotten 1952 without end 1934 All god's chillun got wings 1924 Desrire under elms 1925 Great God Brown (1926)
• 1952 Elizabeth Robins various titles
• 1952 John Hay Beith alias Ian Hay novels Crimson Cocoanut (1913) "A Present from Margate" (1933) (with A E W Mason d. 1948) "Little Ladyship" (1939) "Blank Cartridge:Farce"(1928) "Quicker to telephone:1actcomedy"(1933)
• 1952 Philip G. Epstein screenwriter Casablanca (1942) filmography "The Mad Miss Manton"
• 1952 Elizabeth MacKintosh AKA Josephine Tey "Laughing woman" (1932) "Richard of Bordeaux" (1933) The Privateer (novel 1952)
• 1951 Sinclair Lewis novels novels "Jayhawker" (1935)
• 1951 Graham Moffat Hit Musical "Bunty pulls the strings" (1910) no copies in australia
• 1951 Charles Goddard Ghostbreaker (1914) Perils of Pauline (1914) five plays 1912-1916
• 1951 Margaret Mayo novels
• 1951 Monckton Hoffe Irish. "Many waters", "Little Damsel", "Christilinda"
• 1951 Vsevolod Vishnevsky "Optimistic Tragedy" (1936 play, 1963 film) no copies in english
• 1951 James Bridie "switchback, pardonerstale,sunlightsonata" 1930 Constable Pub.
• 1951 Ivor Novello Twenty Musicals biography
• 1950 George Bernard Shaw many titles
• 1950 Eleanor Gates novels married to Richard Walton Tully (died 1945) also a playwright.
• 1950 Jane Cowl no copies
• 1950 Maude Fulton "Cinderella of the storm" and "Sonny" free view fulltext online at TROVE Australian Library
• 1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay The Lamp and The bell Ario de Capo Two slatterns and a king (1922)
• 1949 Sem Benelli Italian "The jest (1919) New York success no copies in english
• 1949 Maurice Maeterlinck
• 1949 Phillip Barry The Animal Kingdom (1932)
• 1949 George Shiels forty five plays
• 1949 Rex Beach novels adapted for film novels eight works on TROVE
• 1949 William Thomas Walsh in verse
• 1948 William Price Drury Privy Council (1906) Bearers of the burden (1904) Peradventures of Private Paget
• 1948 Susan Glaspell Collected works
• 1948 Antonin Artaud "Jet of blood" French language - no copies in English.
• 1948 Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan The story of Adam and marriage (1922) enough rope (1914) Adam of Dublin (1920) Adam and Caroline (1921)
• 1948 Montague Summers "William Henry" (1938), "Edward II" (1940) no copies
• 1866-1948 Walford Graham Robertson "Archibald:farcefor10girls"(1919)SamFrench
• 1947 Gregorio Martínez Sierra Spanish language
• 1948 Alexander M. Thompson most musicals "The rebel maid" (1921) 114 shows London
• 1946 Herbert Swears Dog Days (1915) Cupboard love: A costume comedy (1922) The unknown Quantity (1916) The mere man (1910) Grannies Juliet (1911) A tight corner
• 1946 Mary Burill (1881-1946) "They that sit in darkness" (1919)
• 1946 Edward Sheldon Romance (1910) The nigger (1910) Garden of Paradise (1915)
• 1946 Gerhart Hauptmann German Language - translations by LUDWIG LEWISOHN (died 1956)
• 1946 Harley Granville-Barker "Marrying of Anne Leete" (1909) "Voysey Inheritance" (1909) "Waste: A tragedy" (1909)
• 1946 Mary P. Burrill african american They sit in darkness (1919)
• 1946 Walter J. Turner AUSTRALIAN The man who ate the popomack full length about forbidden fruit.
• 1946 John Colton (screenwriter) Gay Shanghai gesture (?1922) novel adapted to broadway 1926
• 1946 T. P. Kailasam Thyagaraja Paramasiva Kailasam - English language Indian Author
• 1946 Thomas Dixon, Jr. Clansmen: An historical romance of the Klu Klux Klan (1905)
• 1946 Bellary Raghava
• 1946 Thompson, Edward John Atonement:A play of modern India (1924)
• 1946 Harry Tighe
• 1945 Maurice Baring
• 1945 Bruno Frank [http://archive.org/details/onefardaughter012582mbp| One Fair Daughter (novel 1943) "play Twelve Thousand" (1927) comic play "Storm Over Patsy" (1930)
• 1945 Edward Locke
• 1945 Hatcher Hughes
• 1945 Garrett Fort
• 1874-1945 Edward Knoblock "A charity committee:comedy1actfor nine women" (1939)
• 1944 Louis N. Parker
• 1944 Jean Giraudoux French Language
• 1944 Thomas Sturge Moore
• 1944 Walter C. Hackett
• 1944 Louis N. Parker
• 1944 George Ade
• 1858-1944 Ethel Smyth "Entente cordiale:Postwar comedy in one act" (1925)

List of playwrights by date of death (1923-1943)

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• 1863-1943 William Wymark Jacobs "Distant Relative:1actcomedy"(1930)SFrench

"Warming pan:1actcomedy"(1929)SFrench*1943 Laurence Binyon Seven plays

• 1943 Leslie Howard (actor) "Tell me the truth" (1934)
• 1943 Carlos Arniches Spanish language
• 1943 Louis Esson AUSTRALIAN "Time is not yet ripe" (1912) Dead timber
• 1943 Netta Syrett
• 1942 John Willard (playwright) Cat and Canary (1922) revived 2013 - 1927 film on internet archive by producer Koehn (d. 1988)
• 1942 Rudolf Besier The Barretts of Wimpole Street (play 1930 film 1934, 1957)
• 1942 Roberto Arlt Spanish Argentine - thirteen plays
• 1942 William Alexander Percy Gay In April Once (1920) One act tragedy
• 1942 George M. Cohan musicals and skits
• 1942 André de Lorde French
• 1942 Sándor Hunyady Hungarian
• 1942 Arthur Anderson (dramatist) musicals
• 1878-1942 George Michael Cohan "Baby cyclone:3actfarce" 1929 T.S.Denison&co
• 1941 Wilson Collison - many works (low brow)
• 1941 Karel Hašler Czech language
• 1941 Willis Steell eleven comedies one acts
• 1941 Eugene Walter The wolf (novel 1908) Paid in full (novel 1908) The Easiest Way: New York life in four scenes (1908)
• 1941 Alexander Afinogenov - Russian language ? no copies in english
• 1940 Mikhail Bulgakov (soviet) The fateful eggs (prose)
• 1940 Henri Lavedan French
• 1940 F. Scott Fitzgerald Porcelain and Pink 1922 one act
• 1939 Sidney Coe Howard "Gone with the Wind"
• 1939 W. B. Yeats
• 1939 Ernst Toller Socialist, German language
• 1939 Harry Leon Wilson american play & screen
• 1939 Edward Antonio Paulton born 1865 "Money by wire:3act farce"(1939)English theatre guild
• 1938 Ödön von Horváth German Language
• 1938 Zona Gale Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
• 1938 Karel Čapek english translation form Czek
• 1938 Fred Duprez "My Wifes Family" T8 script cupboard
• 1937 J. M. Barrie Gutenberg titles
• 1937 John Drinkwater Oliver Cromwell Abraham Lincoln (1919) Mary Stuart 1921
• 1937 Jaishankar Prasad Hindi
• 1937 William Gillette 13 plays
• 1937 Mark Ambient Oh Susannah
• 1936 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Magic:A fantastic comedy 1913
• 1936 Maxim Gorky novels
• 1936 Ernest Henry Clark Oliphant unpublished AUSTRALIAN
• 1936 Oscar Asche AUSTRALIAN Chu Chin Cow (1916) with music by Frederic Norton (died 1946)
• 1936 Luigi Pirandello Italian language with one translation
• 1936 Federico García Lorca Gay. Spanish Language. no translations
• 1935 Alfredo Le Pera Brazilian
• 1935 Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Six plays
• 1935 Steele Rudd On Our Selection (1899) Our New Selection
• 1935 Stanisława Przybyszewska Polish
• 1935 Alice Dunbar-Nelson (1875-1935) "Mine eyes have seen" (1908)
• 1934 Arthur Wing Pinero eight on gutenberg and others on internet archive the squire 1905
• 1934 Montague Glass
• 1934 Augustus Thomas American. "In Mizzoura" , "Arizona"
• 1934 Erich Mühsam Jewish German Socialist. German language. no translations available
• 1934 Willard Mack Canadian Single Broadway hit "the noose"
• 1934 Garland Anderson (1886-1934) "Appearances" (1924) held in Australian National Library
• 1934 Madeleine Lucette Ryley "An American Citizen (1914)" "Mice and Men (1916)"
• 1933 John Galsworthy complete works also many on gutenberg
• 1933 Fagan, James Bernard The improper duchess (1931)
• 1933 Alfred Sutro
• 1933 Lady Augusta Gregory
• 1933 Wilson Mizner American - 3 plays in english
• 1932 Ahmed Shawqi Arabic Language. two comedies "Madam Huda", "the Miser" in arabic
• 1932 Norman McKinnel "Bishops Candlesticks" One Act
• 1932 Eugene Brieux French language on social issues
• 1931 Sir Hall Caine
• 1931 Michael Morton (dramatist)
• 1931 Arnold Bennett
• 1931 Stephen Black (playwright) South African unpublished.
• 1931 Arthur Schnitzler German Language in translation
• 1931 David Belasco
• 1930 Vladimir Mayakovsky Soviet Language. no translations.
• 1929 Henry Arthur Jones English -two dozen titles
• 1928 Hermann Sudermann German
• 1928 Avery Hopwood active 1910-1930 dozen scripts, many filmed
• 1928 J. Hartley Manners
• 1928 R.C.Carton AKA Richard Claud Critchett "Ashes of Revenge" "Tree of Sorrow" "Sunlight and Shadow"
• 1927 Abbie Farwell Brown "Quits" one act Comedy
• 1927 Jerome K. Jerome Mrs. Chilvers Three men in a boat 1889
• 1926 Israel Zangwill comedy The melting pot
• 1923 Charles Hawtrey Hit comedy Private Secretary (1918)

List of playwrights by date of death (1823-1923)

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• 1922 Frank Bacon "Lightnin'"
• 1922 John Kendrick Bangs
• 1922 H.V.Esmond eight plays.
• 1921 Georges Feydeau French Language. translations copyright.
• 1921 George Cochrane Hazelton (actor and playwright) two works in film. no text.
• 1921 Charles Haddon Chambers AUSTRALIAN Tyranny of tears
• 1920 Terence MacSwiney Irish socialist
• 1920 William Dean Howells American radical plays five one act plays nine comic works
• 1919 Charles Klein
• 1919 Leonid Andreyev Russian Language. One translated play available "He who get's slapped"
• 1919 Ram Ganesh Gadkari Indian (Marathi) language. No translations available
• 1918 Brandon Thomas "Charley's Aunt"
• 1894-1918 Adrian Consett Stephen
• 1918 Frank Wedekind "Pandora's Box
• 1918 Edmond Rostand French. English language plays
• 1918 Harry James Smith Blackbirds 1915 Tailor Made Man 1922
• 1917 Francis Cowley Burnard
• 1916 Jean Webster "Daddy Long Legs"
• 1916 Jack London Theft a play in four acts 1910
• 1916 Richard Harding Davis
• 1916 Henry James one play "Guy Domville"

• 1915 George Calderon English. Killed at Gallipoli.
• 1915 Guy Du Maurier English. Killed at Flanders. "An Englishman's Home"
• 1915 James Elroy Flecker Hassan of Baghdad
• 1913 Arthur Law Musicals. no copies.
• 1913 Stanley Houghton "Hindle Wakes" 1912 Dear departed (1910)
• 1912 August Strindberg
• 1911 W. S. Gilbert
• 1910 Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson three comedies on gutenberg Bankrupt, Editor, Gauntlet, King, Leonarda, Newly-Married Couple
• 1910 Leo Tolstoy Power of Darkness 1919
• 1910 William Vaughn Moody "The Great Divide" (1907) "The Faith Healer" (1909)
• 1909 Clyde Fitch
• 1909 Algernon Charles Swinburne two tragedies
• 1909 St. John Emile Clavering Hankin ten plays
• 1909 Clyde Fitch
• 1908 Bronson Howard seven plays
• 1907 Victorien Sardou French. no translations available.
• 1906 Henrik Ibsen
• 1906 Joseph Arthur (playwright) American. Eight plays. No text available.
• 1905 Julian Magnus
• 1905 John Millington Synge
• 1904 Anton Chekov
• 1902 Emile Zola Fench Language. Three plays. no translations available.
• 1901 James A. Herne American. dozen plays. no text available.
• 1900 Ernest Dowson single work 'Peirot of the minute'
• 1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• 1891 John Maddison Morton "Box & Cox (1894 one act)
• 1890 George Melville Baker
• 1890 Dion Boucicault six plays
• 1889 James Albery Two Roses (1870) comedy
• 1885 Ivan Turgenev
• 1885 Juliana Horatia Ewing childrens works
• 1884 Henry James Byron Our Boys (1875)
• 1880 Charles Dickens one act farce "The lamplighter"
• 1879 Angelina Grimké (1805-1879) "Rachel" (1920)
• 1852 Nikolai Gogol Inspector general 1836 translation T.Seltzer (died 1934)
• 1847 Richard Brinsley Peake

Playwrights pending inclusion on lists

• Lionel Shave (1888-1954)
• Mary Foott (1846–1918)
• William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857)
• Ralph Delaney "A Native Drama" AUSTRALIAN
• William Leman Rede 1802-1847 AUSTRALIAN
• Henry Melville AUSTRALIAN Bushrangers or Norwood Vale 1834 in Fotheringham, Richard. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage. UQP
• James R McLaughlin
• Richard Henry Horne AUSTRALIAN The south sea sisters
• William Mower Achurst AUSTRALIAN The house that Jack built 1869 (later lampooned by anonymous in 1871)
• Walter H Cooper AUSTRALIAN Hazard or Pearce Dynetons crime
• Helen Lucy Benbow AUSTRALIAN for 60,000 pounds

Thomas Walker AUSTRALIAN For the term of his natural life Arnold Denham - Kely Gang AUSTRALIAN

• pending 1951 Leo Birinski Ukrainina American - No copies in english?
• pending 1950 Erle Cox science fiction work "Out of the Silence" was dramatised by ? 1936 and also in cartoon form by anonymous.
• pending 1940 Helen de Guerry Simpson novels dramatised for radio. Earliest known Aboriginal idyll.
• pending 1934 Carlton Dawe seventy novels, some adapted for film on archive
• pending 1932 Fergus Hume prolific novels, no copies of plays?
• pending 1905 Guy Boothby "The Rickshaw: A farce in two acts" no copies?
• pending (?date) Marion Craig Wentworth
• pending (?date) Adelaide Matthews with Martha Stanley "Where Innocense is bliss" light comedy (1929)
• Marion Davies
• Leroy Arnold
• Mark Ambient

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Alphabetical list (playwrights died 1855-1955)

Annotated by year of death

• Ade, George 1944
• Afford, Malcolm 1954
• Afinogenov, Alexander 1941
• Anderson, Arthur 1942
• Andreyev, Leonid 1919
• Arlt, Roberto
• Arniches, Carlos 1943
• Artaud, Antonin 1948
• Arthur, Joseph 1906
• Asche, Oscar 1936
• Bacon, Frank 1922
• Baker, George Melville 1890
• Balderston, John L. 1954
• Bangs, John Kendrick 1922
• Barrie, James Murray 1937
• Barry, Phillip 1949
• Baring, Maurice 1945
• Beach, Rex 1949
• Beith, John Hay 1952
• Belasco, David 1930
• Bennett, Arnold 1931
• Benelli, Sam 1949
• Besier, Rudolf 1942
• Binyon, Laurence 1943
• Birinski, Leo 1951
• Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne 1910
• Black, Stephen 1931
• Brown, Abbie Farwell 1927
• Bulgakov, Mikhail 1940
• Burnard, Francis Cowley 1917
• Burrill, Mary P. 1946
• Byron, Henry James 1884
• Calderon, George 1915
• Caine, Sir Hall 1931
• Čapek, Karel 1938

Chambers, Charles Haddon 1925

• Chekov, Anton 1904
• Collette 1953
• Collison, Wilson 1941
• Colton, John 1946
• Cowl, Jane 1950
• Davis, Richard Harding 1916
• de Lorde, André 1942
• Dickens, Charles 1880
• Dixon, Thomas, Jr. 1946
• Dowson, Ernest 1900
• Drinkwater, John 1937
• Drury, William Price 1948
• Du Maurier, Guy 1915
• Duprez, Fred 1938
• Epstein, Philip G. 1952
• Esson, Louis 1943
• Ewing, Juliana Horatia 1885
• Feydeau, Georges 1921
• Fitch, Clyde 1909
• Flecker, James Elroy 1915
• Fort, Garrett 1945
• Frank, Bruno 1945
• Fulton, Maude 1950
• Gadkari, Ram Ganesh 1919
• Galsworthy, John 1933
• Gates, Eleanor 1950
• Gilbert, W. S. 1911
• Giraudoux, Jean 1944
• Glaspell, Susan 1948
• Glass, Montague 1934
• Goddard, Charles 1951
• Gorky, Maxim 1936
• Granville-Barker, Harley 1946
• Gregory, Lady Augusta 1933
• Hackett, Walter C. 1944
• Hasler, Karel 1941
• Hazelton, George Cochrane 1921
• Hauptmann, Gerhart 1946
• Hawtrey, Charles 1923
• Herne, James A.1901
• Hoffe, Monckton 1951
• Hopwood, Avery 1928
• Howard, Sidney Coe 1939
• Howells, William Dean 1920
• Hughes, Hatcher 1945
• Hunyady, Sándor 1942
• Ibsen, Henrik 1906
• Jackson, Frederick 1953
• James, Henry 1916
• Jones Henry Arthur 1929
• Kailasam, T. P. 1946
• Klein, Charles 1919
• Lavedan, Henri 1940
• Law, Arthur 1913
• Le Pera, Alfredo 1935
• Lewis, Sinclair 1951
• Locke, Edward 1945
• Lonsdale, Frederick 1954
• Lorca, Federico García 1936
• Magnus, Julian 1905
• Mack, Willard 1934
• MacSwiney, Terence 1920
• Maeterlinck, Maurice 1949
• Mayo, Margaret 1951
• Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1930
• McKinnel, Norman 1932
• Millay, Edna St. Vincent 1950
• Moffat, Graham 1951
• Moore, Thomas Sturge 1944
• Morton, Michael 1931
• Mühsam, Erich 1934
• Manners, J. Hartley 1928
• Mizner, Wilson 1933
• Oliphant, Ernest Henry Clark 1936
• O'Riordan, Conal Holmes O'Connell 1948
• O'Neill, Eugene 1953
• Parker, Louis N. 1944
• Pirandello, Luigi 1936
• Pinero, Arthur Wing 1934
• Prasad, Jaishankar 1937
• Przybyszewska, Stanisława 1935
• Raghava, Bellary 1946
• Rostand, Edmond 1918
• Robins, Elizabeth 1952
• Rudd, Steele 1935
• Sardou, Victorien 1907
• Schnitzler, Arthur 1931
• Shaw, George Bernard 1950
• Shawqi, Ahmed 1932
• Sheldon, Edward 1946
• Shiels, George 1949
• Sierra, Gregorio Martínez 1947
• Steell, Willis 1942
• Strindberg, August 1912
• Sudermann, Hermann 1928
• Summers, Montague 1948
• Sutro, Alfred 1933
• Swears, Herbert 1946
• Swinburne, Algernon Charles1909
• Synge, John Millington 1905
• Thomas, Augustus 1934
• Toller, Ernst 1939
• Turner, Walter J. 1946
• Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1892
• Thomas, Brandon1918
• Thompson, Alexander. M 1948
• Turgenev, Ivan 1885
• Von Horváth, Ödön 1938
• Walsh, William Thomas 1949
• Walter, Eugene 1941
• Webster, Jean 1916
• Wedekind, Frank 1918
• Willard, John 1942
• Wilson, Harry Leon 1939
• Wilde, Percival 1953
• Yeats, W. B. 1939
• Zangwill, Israel 1926
• Zola, Emile 1902

List of Pantomimes

• Cinderella
• Aladdin
• Jack & Beanstalk
• Snow White & Seven Dwarves
• Puss-in-Boots
• Dick Whittington
• Ali Baba
• Sinbad the Sailor
• Mother Goose
• Goody Two Shoes

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List of Jazz Standards of Australia

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• Jack Lumsdaine
• Albert Saunders
• Bert Roche
• Charlie Vaude
• Vince Courtney
• George Trevare
• Tom Foster (musician)

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• George M. Cohan
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• Buddy DeSylva
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• Scot Joplin
• Lorenz Hart
• Charles K. Harris
• George Gershwin
• Gus Kahn
• Theodora Morse
• Halsey K. Mohr
• F. W. Meacham
• Jerome Kern
• Bert Kalmar
• Ethelbert Nevin
• Lew Pollack
• Edward Teschemacher
• Harry Von Tilzer
• Fats Waller
• Richard A. Whiting
• Vincent Youmans
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