George Etherege

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1. William Shakespeare

   Author of Troilus and Cressida, Cymbeline, King John

2. Ben Jonson

   Author of Volpone, or The Fox, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair

3. William Wycherley

   Author of The Country Wife, The Country Wife/The Gentleman Dancing Master/Love in a Wood/Plain Dealer, The Plain Dealer

4. Thomas Middleton

   Author of The Revenger's Tragedy, The Changeling, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside

5. William Congreve

   Author of The Way of the World, Love for Love

6. Henry Fielding

   Author of Joseph Andrews, Joseph Andrews and Shamela, Jonathan Wild

7. John Webster

   Author of The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil

8. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

   Author of The Rivals, The Plays of Richard Brinsley Sheridan

9. Thomas Otway

   Author of Venice Preserved: A Tragedy in Five Acts

10. Aphra Behn

    Author of Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave, The Rover

11. Samuel Richardson

    Author of Pamela: or, Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady

12. Edmund Spenser

    Author of The Faerie Queene, Edmund Spenser's Poetry (Norton Critical Edition)

13. George Bernard Shaw

    Author of Plays Unpleasant, Plays Pleasant

14. Sir John Vanbrugh

    Author of The Relapse (New Mermaids)

15. George Farquhar

    Author of The Beaux' Stratagem

16. George Lillo

    Author of The London Merchant (Regents Restoration Drama)

17. Maria Edgeworth

    Author of Castle Rackrent, Belinda

18. Daniel Defoe

    Author of Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Edition), Moll Flanders (Norton Critical Edition)

19. Tobias Smollett

    Author of The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, Roderick Random

20. John Dryden

    Author of All for love, or, The world well lost