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drama, Western, Theater
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drama, Western, plays produced in the Western world. This article discusses the development of Western drama in general; for further information see the various national literature articles.
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• Fernando Arrabal
• Antonin Artaud
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• W. H. Auden
• Emile Augier
• Francis Beaumont
• Samuel Beckett
• Julian Beck
• Georg BUchner
• burlesque
• Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron
• Pedro CalderOn de la Barca
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• Colley Cibber
• closet drama
• Jean Cocteau
• comedy
• commedia dell'arte
• William Congreve
• Pierre Corneille
• Dada
• directing
• dithyramb
• John Dryden
• Alexandre Dumas (Dumas fils), 1824–95, French dramatist and novelist
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• Friedrich DUrrenmatt
• T. S. Eliot
• Sir George Etherege
• Euripides
• Everyman
• existentialism
• expressionism
• George Farquhar
• Henry Fielding
• John Fletcher
• Max Frisch
• Christopher Fry
• John Galsworthy
• Federico GarcIa Lorca
• John Gay
• Jean Genet
• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol
• Carlo Goldoni
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Maxim Gorky
• Gozzi, Carlo, Conte
• Alexandre Hardy
• Gerhart Hauptmann
• Christian Friedrich Hebbel
• Lillian Hellman
• Hugo, Victor Marie, Vicomte
• Henrik Ibsen
• interlude
• intermezzo
• EugEne Ionesco
• Estienne Jodelle
• Ben Jonson
• Georg Kaiser
• Buster Keaton
• Heinrich von Kleist
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• Lope de Rueda
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• Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
• Christopher Marlowe
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• Thomas Middleton
• Arthur Miller
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• Jean Baptiste Poquelin MoliEre
• morality play
• naturalism, in literature
• Sean O'Casey
• Clifford Odets
• Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill
• opera
• John Osborne
• Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky
• Thomas Otway
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• Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
• Harold Pinter
• Luigi Pirandello
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• Friedrich von Schiller
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• Seneca, the younger, c.3 B.C.–A.D. 65, Roman philosopher, dramatist, and statesman
• William Shakespeare
• George Bernard Shaw
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• Sturm und Drang
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• John Millington Synge
• Torquato Tasso
• Terence
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• Thespis
• Ernst Toller
• Tolstoy, Leo, Count
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• Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
• vaudeville
• FranCois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
• John Webster
• Peter Weiss
• Oscar Wilde
• Tennessee Williams
• William Wycherley
• W. B. Yeats
• Emile Zola
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