List of English-language playwrights

This is a list of English-language playwrights who have articles on Penny's Poetry Pages.

B

 * Joanna Baillie (1762-1851), Scotland
 * Francis Beaumont (1584-1616), England
 * Aphra Behn (1640-1689), England

C

 * Henry Carey (1689-1743), England
 * William Cartwright (1611-1643), England
 * Margaret Cavendish (1623-1673), England
 * Colley Cibber (1671–1757), England
 * William Congreve (1670-1729), England

D

 * Thomas Dekker (?1572-1632), England
 * John Dryden (1631-1700), England

E

 * Sir George Etherege (?1635-1692), England

F

 * Nathan Field (1587-1620), England
 * John Fletcher (1579-1625), England

J

 * Ben Jonson (1572-1637), England

K

 * Thomas Kyd (1558-1594), England

L

 * John Lyly (1554-1606), England

M

 * Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), England
 * John Marston (1576-1634), England
 * Philip Massinger (1583-1640), England
 * Thomas Middleton (1580-1627), England
 * William Vaughn Moody (1869-1910), United States
 * Anthony Munday (1560-1633), England

N

 * Marjory Nicholls (1890-1930), New Zealand

O

 * Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953), United States
 * Thomas Otway (1652-1685), England

P

 * George Peele (1556-1596), England

R

 * Thomas Randolph (1605-1635), England
 * William Rowley (?1585-1626), England

S

 * Epes Sargent (1813-1880). United States
 * William Shakespeare (1564-1616), England
 * Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816), Ireland / England
 * James Shirley (1596-1666), England
 * William Stevenson (1530-1575), England
 * J.M. Synge (1871-1909), Ireland

T

 * John Todhunter (1839-1916), Ireland

U

 * Nicholas Udall (1594-1556), England

W

 * John Webster (?1580-1634?). England