Eric Bentley

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1. Eric Bentley

   Author of The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times, The Brecht commentaries 1943-1986, The Brecht Memoir

2. Bertolt Brecht

   Author of Mother Courage and Her Children, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic

3. Eugene O'Neill

   Author of Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh, Three Plays: Desire Under The Elms, Strange Interlude, Mourning Becomes Electra

4. George Bernard Shaw

   Author of Man and Superman, Heartbreak House, Androcles and the Lion

5. Eugene Ionesco

   Author of Four Plays: The Bald Soprano; The Lesson; Jack, or the Submission; The Chairs, Rhinoceros and Other Plays: The Leader, the Future is in Eggs, The Killer, and Other Plays

6. Edward Albee

   Author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The American Dream and The Zoo Story, A Delicate Balance

7. Harold Pinter

   Author of The Homecoming, Complete Works, Volume I, The Birthday Party & The Room

8. August Strindberg

   Author of Six Plays of Strindberg, Strindberg: Five Plays, The Chamber Plays

9. John Gassner

   Author of Medieval and Tudor Drama: Twenty-Four Plays, Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre, Best American Plays: Fourth Series, 1951-1957

10. Samuel Beckett

    Author of Endgame: A Play in One Act and Act without Words: A Mime for One Player, Krapp's Last Tape

11. Tom Stoppard

    Author of Travesties, The Real Thing, Real Inspector Hound and After Magritte

12. Peter Weiss

    Author of The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis De Sade, Trotsky in exile; a play

13. Jean Genet

    Author of The Balcony, The Blacks : a clown show, The Screens

14. Jean-Paul Sartre

    Author of No Exit and Three Other Plays, Between Existentialism and Marxism, The Ghost of Stalin

15. Martin Esslin

    Author of The Theatre of the Absurd, Brecht: The Man and His Work

16. Anton Chekhov

    Author of Five Plays, Four Plays, Eight Plays: Ivanov; The Seagull; Uncle Vania; Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Bear; The Proposal; A Jubilee

17. Toby Cole

    Author of Actors on Acting: The Theories, Techniques, and Practices of the World's Great Actors, Told in Their Own Words, Directors on Directing: A Source Book of the Modern Theatre, Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco

18. Edmund Wilson

    Author of Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930, The Shores of Light: A Literary Chronicle of the Twenties and Thirties

19. J. M. Synge

    Author of The Complete Plays of John M. Synge

20. Barrett H. Clark

    Author of World Drama: An Anthology, Vol. 2, World Drama: An Anthology, Vol. 1 (World Drama)