Playwrights

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1 Henrik Ibsen 27x

2 George Bernard Shaw 24x

3 Neil Simon 22x

4 Arthur Miller 20x

5 Eugene O'Neill 19x

6 Tennessee Williams 18x

7 Harold Pinter 13x

8 August Wilson 11x

9 David Mamet 10x

10 Sam Shepard 10x

11 August Strindberg 10x

12 Samuel Beckett 10x

13 Noel Coward 9x

14 Lillian Hellman 9x

15 Anton Chekhov 9x

16 The Glass Menagerie 8x

17 Edward Albee 8x

18 William Inge 8x

19 Tom Stoppard 6x

20 Clifford Odets 6x

21 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof 6x

22 Athol Fugard 6x

23 Shakespeare 6x

24 Bertolt Brecht 5x

25 Oscar Wilde 5x

26 Vaclav Havel 4x

27 Moliere 4x

28 Ben Jonson 4x

29 Thornton Wilder 4x

30 George S. Kaufman 4x

31 Eugene Ionesco 4x

32 World War I 3x

33 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? 3x

34 Wendy Wasserstein 3x

35 The Rose Tattoo 3x

36 The Odd Couple 3x

37 The Heidi Chronicles 3x

38 T.S. Eliot 3x

39 Sean O'Casey 3x

40 Our Town 3x

41 Lorraine Hansberry 3x

42 Harvey Fierstein 3x

43 Dublin 3x

44 Death of a Salesman 3x

45 Blithe Spirit 3x

46 Sophocles 3x

47 Long Day's Journey into Night 3x

48 John Osborne 3x

49 Joan of Arc 3x

Sample Clues

This Norwegian dramatist served as stage manager for the National Theatre in Bergen 1851-57

Henrik Ibsen

"I think you ought to know, Doolittle, that Mr. Higgins's intentions are entirely honorable"

George Bernard Shaw

"WEAF presents Dinner at Brighton Beach starring the Jacob Jerome family..."

Neil Simon

In "Blonde" Adrien Brody plays this man who wrote the screenplay for "The Misfits", his wife's final film

Arthur Miller

Around 1912, while recovering in a sanatorium, this former seaman decided to become a playwright

Eugene O'Neill

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Other 646

George Bernard Shaw (24) Henrik Ibsen (24) Neil Simon (22) Arthur Miller (21) Eugene O'Neill (20) Tennessee Williams (19) David Mamet (12) Harold Pinter (12) August Wilson (11) Samuel Beckett (10)

British Literature 27

Oscar Wilde (5) Thornton Wilder (5) Our Town (4) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (3) Edward Albee (3) Importance (2) Wilderness (1) Hello, Dolly! (1) "Our Town" (1) Lady Windermere's Fan (1)

Shakespeare 23

Shakespeare (7) Tom Stoppard (2) Ben Jonson (2) Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (2) George Bernard Shaw (2) Lynn Redgrave (1) Marlowe (1) the Sonnets (1) The Merchant of Venice (1) Twelfth Night (1)

Poetry 21

T.S. Eliot (3) Ibsen (2) Shelley Winters (1) Oscar Wilde (1) 1977 (1) Helen Hayes (1) (Omar) Khayyam (1) (William Butler) Yeats (1) Lorraine Hansberry (1) Strindberg (1)

Children's Literature 8

Sam Shepard (2) Ibsen (1) James M. Barrie (1) The Glass Menagerie (1) Peter Pan (1) Lillian Hellman (1) Children of a Lesser God (1)

Mystery / Thriller 6

Lillian Hellman (2) The Mousetrap (1) Peter & Anthony Shaffer (1) Sherlock Holmes (1) Agatha Christie (1)

American Literature 5

(Sean) O'Casey (1) C.S. Lewis (1) Shaw (1) Kurt Vonnegut (1) F. Scott Fitzgerald (1)