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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) |Dawn, 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 |Days without end 1934 | All god's chillun got wings 1924 | Desrire under elms 1925 |he 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)
See United Kingdom and European copyright expiry conditions "Warming pan:1actcomedy"(1929)SFrench*1943 Laurence Binyon Seven plays
 * 1863-1943 William Wymark Jacobs "Distant Relative:1actcomedy"(1930)SFrench
 * 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
Thomas Walker AUSTRALIAN For the term of his natural life Arnold Denham - Kely Gang AUSTRALIAN Marion Short
 * 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
 * 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
 * see also | wikibook list of one act plays
 * see also plays from ancient times to the nineteenth century
 * see also | read online site
 * see also | Doctor Widgers ebooks
 * see also | Online books page

Alphabetical list (playwrights died 1855-1955)
Annotated by year of death

Chambers, Charles Haddon 1925
 * 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
 * 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

External Blog
Mirror list List of playwrights deceased by 1955.

List of Jazz Standards of Australia

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

Non-Australian Aliens

 * Thomas S. Allen
 * Walter Donaldson
 * Ernest Ball
 * George Botsford
 * George M. Cohan
 * Con Conrad
 * Gussie Davis
 * Buddy DeSylva
 * Paul Dresser
 * Al Dubin
 * 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
 * Joe Young (lyricist)