My Playwrights Collection

Here is a loose chronological list of the dramatists i've collected in a mere few days, some folk i have but weren't primarily known as playwrights, or i just don't have their plays yet, or i have them, but i haven't even opened up their kindles to see they did.



Aeschylus
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophanes
Menander
Plautus
Seneca
Terence
{English Mystery Plays}
Hans Sachs
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson
Thomas Kyd
John Lyly
Thomas Dekker
Lope de Vega -- soon
Calderon -- soon -- these 2 are from the golden age of Spanish theatre, as far as i can see there's no more to purchase .....:(
Thomas Middleton
Francis Beaumont
John Fletcher
Thomas Otway
Pierre Corneille
Moliere
Jean Racine
Beaumarchais
John Webster
Aphra Behn
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
John Dryden
William Congreve
William Wycherley
Friedrich Schiller
Goethe
Carlo Goldoni -- soon
Elizabeth Inchbald
Georg Buchner
Henrik Ibsen
August Strindberg
Oscar Wilde
George Bernard Shaw
Anton Chekhov
Frank Wedekind
Karel Capek
Neil Coward
Eugene O’Neill
Tennessee Williams
Arthur Miller
Samuel Beckett
Gertrude Stein -- i didn't know she wrote plays, but i held her in high esteem as a poet
Bertolt Brecht
Thornton Wilder
Harold Pinter
Tom Stoppard
Sam Shepard
David Mamet

There is so much in the contemporary category to consider, much seems good, others seem to be just politically correct generated, mirroring the times that i really am sick of, a great play will unveil to your conscious thought matters that you weren't aware of before, the present milieu i feel too close to, but perhaps the current theatre is still instructive and inspirational, i'll never really know till i try, but the list above gives a good sampling i think, i'm drawn to the big names, and crave serious soul crushing penetrating stories that seek ruthlessly truth. It's ironic how a artificial medium can approach truth better than when we are out and about, acting our parts without even knowing it, till the stage or a movie or whatever reveals it to us.