Introduction

This publication enlists masterpiece of English drama and provides readers with relevant details about them. Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance.

The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a collective form of reception. The structure of dramatic texts, unlike other forms of literature, is directly influenced by this collaborative production and collective reception.

Notable Playwrights

Some important playwrights of the modern era include the following: Samuel Adamson, Joseph Addison, Rhys Adrian, Alan Ayckbourn, Antonin Artaud, Samuel Beckett, Alan Bennett, Steven Berkoff, Bertolt Brecht, Anton Chekhov, Caryl Churchill, Jean Cocteau, Noël Coward, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Michael Frayn, Jean Genet, David Hare, Henrik Ibsen, Eugène Ionesco, Thomas Middleton, Molière, Harold Pinter, Luigi Pirandello, Terence Rattigan, Peter Shaffer, Sam Shepard, Tom Stoppard, Arnold Wesker, Tennessee Williams, Alexandre Dumas, Arthur Miller, Horton Foote, William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe.