Timeline of twentieth-century theatre

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The following timeline of twentieth-century theatre offers a year-by-year account of the performance and publication of notable works of drama and significant events in the history of theatre during the 20th century. Musical theatre works are excluded from the list below.

1900[]

  • David Belasco – Madame Butterfly
  • José Echegaray – El loco Dios (The Madman Divine)
  • Clyde Fitch – Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines
  • Herman Heijermans – Op Hoop van Zegen
  • James Herne – Sag Harbor
  • Haralamb Lecca – Quarta. Jucătoriĭ de cărțĭ
  • George Moore – The Bending of the Bough: a comedy in five acts
  • George Bernard Shaw – Captain Brassbound's Conversion
  • Arthur Schnitzler – La Ronde (German: Reigen; privately printed)
  • August Strindberg
    • The Dance of Death (Dödsdansen)
    • Easter (Påsk)
  • Hermann Sudermann – Fires of St. John

1901[]

1902[]

  • J. M. Barrie – The Admirable Crichton
  • Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers – Le Cœur a ses raisons
  • Clyde Fitch – The Girl with the Green Eyes
  • Cosmo Gordon-Lennox – The Marriage of Kitty
  • Maxim Gorky – The Lower Depths
  • Haralamb Lecca – Septima. Câiniĭ
  • Maurice Maeterlinck – Monna Vanna
  • Frank Wedekind – King Nicolo
  • W. B. Yeats – Cathleen Ní Houlihan

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This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1905.

Events[]

  • January–September – L. Frank Baum's Animal Fairy Tales appear in The Delineator magazine.
  • January 5 – Baroness Emma Orczy's play The Scarlet Pimpernel, adapted by Julia Neilson and Fred Terry, who play the leads, makes its London debut at the New Theatre, followed shortly by publication of the novel.[1]
  • January 16 – Neil Munro begins publishing his Vital Spark stories in the Glasgow Evening News.
  • February – Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle begins serialization in the American socialist newspaper Appeal to Reason.[2]
  • May 10 – The first stage performance in England of Oscar Wilde's tragedy Salome (the original version having been banned in 1892) takes place privately at the New Stage Club of the Bijou Theatre in Archer Street, London, with Millicent Murby in the title role, directed by Florence Farr. The author died in 1900.[3]
  • July – Beatrix Potter becomes engaged to her editor Norman Warne, but on August 25 he dies unexpectedly of pernicious anemia. Soon after she completes the purchase of a Lake District home, Hill Top.
  • October 13 – The English actor-manager Sir Henry Irving collapses in his hotel, while playing Thomas Becket on tour in Bradford, dying soon afterwards.[4]
  • October 15 – The weekly full-color comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland, by Winsor McCay, debuts in the New York Herald.
  • December 10 – O. Henry's short story "The Gift of the Magi" first appears as "Gifts of the Magi" in The New York Sunday World.
  • December 15 – Pushkin House is founded in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the heritage of Alexander Pushkin.[5]
  • unknown dates
    • The first of many chapters of I Am a Cat (吾輩は猫である) by Natsume Sōseki is published serially in Hototogisu (ホトトギス, Lesser cuckoo). It begins in military style: "I, sir, am a cat, though as yet I have no name...." and explores a family in which the English-teacher husband cannot speak English.
    • The group Noor-Eesti (Young Estonia) is formed to promote Estonian national awakening in language and literature.
    • The National Library of Thailand is created as the Vajirayanana Library for the Capital City in Bangkok, with the merger of the Mandira Dharma Vajirayanana and Buddhasasana Sangaha libraries by royal decree.
    • Belle da Costa Greene, aged 22, is appointed as librarian to J. P. Morgan in New York City.

New books[]

Fiction[]

  • Edwin Lester Arnold – Lieut. Gullivar Jones: His Vacation
  • Margarete Böhme – Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (Diary of a Lost Girl)
  • Rhoda Broughton – A Waif's Progress
  • Mary Boykin Chesnut – A Diary from Dixie
  • G. K. Chesterton – The Club of Queer Trades (book publication)
  • Marquis de Sade (d. 1814) – The 120 Days of Sodom (Les 120 journées de Sodome, written 1785)
  • Catherine Isabella Dodd – A Vagrant Englishwoman[6]
  • Arthur Conan Doyle – The Return of Sherlock Holmes (stories collected in book format)
  • Lord Dunsany – The Gods of Pegāna[7]
  • Antonio Fogazzaro – Il Santo (The Saint)
  • E. M. Forster – Where Angels Fear to Tread
  • Tom Gallon – Meg the Lady
  • Robert Hichens – The Garden of Allah[8]
  • W. H. Hudson – A Little Boy Lost
  • W. J. Locke – The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne[8]
  • Jack London – White Fang
  • Leopoldo Lugones – La Guerra Gaucha (The Gaucho War)
  • Heinrich Mann – Professor Unrat
  • George Moore – The Lake
  • Baroness Orczy
    • The Scarlet Pimpernel[8]
    • The Case of Miss Elliot
    • By the Gods Beloved
  • Dorothy Richardson (anonymously) – The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, As Told by Herself
  • Hjalmar Söderberg – Doctor Glas
  • Katherine Thurston – The Gambler
  • Mark Twain – King Leopold's Soliloquy
  • Jules Verne
    • Invasion of the Sea (L'Invasion de la mer)
    • The Lighthouse at the End of the World (Le Phare du bout du monde)
  • Elizabeth von Arnim – Princess Priscilla's Fortnight
  • Mary Augusta Ward – The Marriage of William Ashe
  • H. G. Wells – Kipps
  • Edith Wharton – The House of Mirth

Children and young people[]

  • L. Frank Baum
  • Angela Brazil – A Terrible Tomboy
  • Frances Hodgson Burnett – A Little Princess
  • H. E. Marshall – Our Island Story (history)
  • Beatrix Potter
    • The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle
    • The Tale of the Pie and the Patty-Pan
  • Herbert Strang – Kobo: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War
  • H. A. Vachell – The Hill[8]

Drama[]

  • David Belasco – The Girl of the Golden West
  • Jacinto Benavente – Rosas de otoño (Autumn Roses)
  • Clyde Fitch – The Woman in the Case
  • Maxim Gorky – Children of the Sun (Дети солнца, Deti solntsa)
  • Harley Granville-Barker – The Voysey Inheritance
  • Sacha Guitry
    • Le KWTZ
    • Nono
  • Alois Jirásek – Lantern
  • Rainis – Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night)
  • George Bernard Shaw
    • Major Barbara
    • Man and Superman (first staged)
  • J. M. Synge – The Well of the Saints[9]
  • Alfredo Testoni – Cardinal Lambertini

Poetry[]

Main article: 1905 in poetry
  • E. Clerihew Bentley – Biography for Beginners
  • Gjergj Fishta – Lahuta e Malcís (The Highland Lute; begins publication)
  • Sarojini Naidu – The Golden Threshold
  • Rainer Maria Rilke – The Book of Hours (Das Stunden-Buch)
  • Violet Teague – Night Fall in the Ti-Tree

Non-fiction[]

  • Phan Bội Châu – Viet Nam vong quoc su
  • G. K. Chesterton – Orthodoxy
  • Sigmund Freud – Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality[10]
  • Afevork Ghevre Jesus – Grammatica della lingua amarica
  • Mary Scharlieb – The Mother's Guide to the Health and Care of her Children
  • Max Weber – The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Die protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus)

Births[]

  • January 2 – Jainendra Kumar, Indian author and translator (died 1988)[11]
  • January 6 – Idris Davies, Anglo-Welsh poet (died 1953)[12]
  • January 25 – Margery Sharp, English novelist and children's writer (died 1991)[13]
  • January 31
  • February 2
    • John Davy Hayward, English literary editor and bibliophile (died 1965)[16]
    • Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), Russian-American novelist, playwright and screenwriter (died 1982)[17]
  • February 7 – Paul Nizan, French philosopher and writer (died 1940)[18]
  • February 26 – Robert Byron, English travel writer (torpedoed 1941)[19]
  • March 2 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic (died 1985)[20]
  • March 23 – Joseph Henry Reason, African-American librarian (died 1997)
  • March 31 – Kulap Saipradit (Siburapha), Thai novelist (died 1974)
  • May 1 – Emmanuel Mounier, French philosopher, journalist and theologian (died 1950)
  • May 16 – H. E. Bates, English novelist (died 1974)[21]
  • May 20 – Gerrit Achterberg, Dutch poet (died 1962)[22]
  • May 24 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist (died 1984)[23]
  • June 20 – Lillian Hellman, American dramatist (died 1984)[24]
  • June 21
    • Jacques Goddet, French sports journalist (died 2000)[25]
    • Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and playwright (died 1980)[26]
  • July 25
    • Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-born novelist and playwright writing in German (died 1994)
    • Denys Watkins-Pitchford, English children's writer (died 1990)
  • September 5 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-born English novelist and social philosopher (suicide 1983)[27]
  • October 15 – C. P. Snow, English novelist (died 1980)[28]
  • October 17 – Lev Nussimbaum, Russian and Azerbaijani novelist (died 1942)[citation needed]
  • October 31 – Elizabeth Jenkins, English author (died 2010)[29]
  • November 10 – Kurt Eggers, German writer, poet, songwriter and playwright (killed in action 1943)
  • December 4 – Munro Leaf, American children's author (died 1974)
  • December 12
    • Mulk Raj Anand, Indian novelist (died 2004)
    • Vasily Grossman, Russian novelist and writer (died 1964)
  • December 13 – Ann Barzel, American writer and dance critic (died 2007)[30]
  • December 21 – Anthony Powell, English novelist (died 2000)[31]
  • December 22 – Kenneth Rexroth, American poet and critic (died 1982)
  • December 30 (December 17 OS) – Daniil Kharms, born Daniil Ivánovich Yuvatchov, Russian surrealist, children's writer, absurdist poet, short prose author and dramatist (died 1942)

Deaths[]

  • January 19 – Debendranath Tagore, Hindu philosopher and religious reformer (born 1817)[32]
  • February 15 – Lew Wallace, American novelist and general (born 1827)[33]
  • February 26 – Marcel Schwob, French writer (pneumonia, born 1867)
  • March 20 – Antonin Proust, French journalist and politician (born 1832)
  • March 24 – Jules Verne, French novelist (born 1828)[34]
  • April 9 – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (Susan Coolidge), American children's writer (born 1839)[35]
  • April 18 – Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Spanish realist novelist (born 1824)
  • May 23 – Mary Livermore, American journalist and women's rights activist (born 1820)
  • August 14 – Gertrude Bloede (Stuart Sterne), American poet (born 1845)
  • August 22 – David Binning Monro, Scottish Homeric scholar (born 1836)
  • September 18 – George MacDonald, Scottish poet, writer and minister (born 1824)[36]
  • October 3 – José-Maria de Heredia, French poet (born 1842)[37]
  • October 6 – Hibbard H. Shedd, American politician and novelist (born 1847)
  • October 13 – Sir Henry Irving, English actor (born 1838)[4]
  • October 28 – Alphonse Allais, French humorist (born 1854)
  • December 3 – John Bartlett, American lexicographer and publisher (born 1820)
  • December 9 – Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb, Scottish classicist and politician (born 1841)
  • December 11 – Paul Meurice, French novelist and playwright (born 1818)
  • December 12
    • William Sharp, Scottish poet, biographer and novelist (born 1855)
  • December 20 – Henry Harland (Sidney Luska), American novelist and editor (tuberculosis, born 1861)
  • December 29 – Victor Daley (Creeve Roe), Australian poet (tuberculosis, born 1858)[38]

Awards[]

  • Newdigate Prize: Arthur Robert Reade, "Garibaldi"[39]
  • Nobel Prize for Literature: Henryk Sienkiewicz[40]

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1906[]

  • Hall Caine – The Bondman Play
  • Benjamin Chapin – Lincoln
  • Paul Claudel – Partage de midi (The Break of Midnight, published)
  • Owen Davis – Nellie, the Beautiful Cloak Model
  • John Galsworthy – The Silver Box
  • Paul Gavault and Robert Charvay – Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman
  • Maxim Gorky – Barbarians
  • Harley Granville-Barker – Waste (refused public performance licence in UK)
  • Sacha Guitry – Chez les Zoaques
  • Winifred Mary Letts – The Eyes of the Blind
  • George Barr McCutcheon – Brewster's Millions (adaptation)
  • Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) – The Sin of William Jackson

1907[]

  • Leonid Andreyev – The Life of Man («Жизнь человека», Zhizn cheloveka, February 22, Komissarzhevskaya Theatre, Saint Petersburg)
  • Sholem Asch – Got fun nekome (God of Vengeance)
  • Jacinto Benavente – Los intereses creados (The Bonds of Interest)
  • Hall Caine – The Christian (new version)
  • Georges Feydeau – A Flea in Her Ear (La Puce à l'oreille)
  • Henry James – The High Bid
  • Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Safed Khoon (adaptation of King Lear)
  • Thomas Mann – Fiorenza
  • John Masefield – The Campden Wonder
  • W. Somerset Maugham – Lady Frederick
  • Quintero brothers
    • El traje de luces
    • La patria chica
  • George Ranetti – Romeo și Julietta la Mizil
  • John Millington Synge – The Playboy of the Western World
  • Teffi – The Woman Question (published)

1908[]

  • J. M. Barrie – What Every Woman Knows
  • Jacinto Benavente – Señora ama (The Lady Loves)
  • Tristan Bernard – The Brighton Twins (Les Jumeaux de Brighton)
  • Alexandre Bisson – Madame X (La Femme X)
  • Hall Caine – Pete (new version of The Manxman)
  • Maxim Gorky – The Last Ones (Poslednje)[citation needed]
  • Maurice Maeterlinck – The Blue Bird (L'Oiseau bleu)[1]
  • Octave Mirbeau – Home (Le Foyer)
  • Emma Orczy – Beau Brocade
  • Alicia Ramsey – Byron
  • W. Graham Robertson – Pinkie and the Fairies
  • Edward Sheldon – Salvation Nell
  • J. M. Synge – The Tinker's Wedding
  • Israel Zangwill – The Melting Pot

1909[]

Poster by Oskar Kokoschka advertising the première of his play
  • Paul Armont and Nicolas Nancey – Théodore et Cie
  • Sem Benelli – The Jester's Supper (La cena delle beffe)
  • Clyde Fitch – The City
  • John Galsworthy – Strife
  • Harley Granville-Barker – The Madras House
  • Cicely Hamilton – A Pageant of Great Women
  • Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Khwab-e-Hasti (The Dream World of Existence)
  • Oskar Kokoschka – Murderer, the Hope of Women (Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen)
  • Else Lasker-Schüler – Die Wupper (published)
  • André de Lorde – L'horrible expérience
  • Ferenc Molnár – Liliom
  • Quintero brothers – El patinillo
  • George Bernard Shaw – The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

1910[]

  • Hall Caine
    • The Bishop's Son (new version of Ben-my-Chree)
    • The Eternal Question (new version of The Eternal City)
  • George Diamandy
    • Bestia (The Beast)
    • Tot înainte (Carry On)
  • Maxim Gorky - Reception
  • Terence MacSwiney – The Last Warriors of Coole
  • Maurice Maeterlinck – Mary Magdalene
  • Eduardo Marquina – En Flandes se ha puesto el sol (The Sun Has Set in Flanders)
  • John Masefield – The Tragedy of Pompey the Great
  • Louis N. Parker – Pomander Walk
  • Edmond Rostand – Chantecler
  • George Bernard Shaw – Misalliance
  • J. M. Synge – Deirdre of the Sorrows
  • Rabindranath Tagore – Raja (রাজা, The King of the Dark Chamber)

1911[]

  • Hugo Ball – Die Nase des Michelangelo. Tragikomödie in vier Auftritten
  • Tristan Bernard – The Little Cafe (Le petit café)
  • Hall Caine – The Quality of Mercy (Also known as The Unwritten Law; a new version of Jan the Icelander)
  • George Diamandy – Dolorosa
  • St. John Greer Ervine – Mixed Marriage
  • A. de Herz
    • Biruința (Victory)
    • Când ochii plâng (When Eyes Shed Tears)
  • Edward Knoblock – Kismet
  • Gregorio Martínez Sierra
    • Canción de cuna (Cradle Song)
    • Primavera en otoño (Spring in Autumn)
  • Charles McEvoy – All That Matters
  • [Mrs] Clifford Mills – Where the Rainbow Ends
  • Emma Orczy – The Duke's Wager
  • Louis N. Parker – Disraeli
  • Rainis – Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija)
  • Arthur Schnitzler – Das weite Land (The Vast Domain, The Distant Land, or Undiscovered Country)
  • George Bernard Shaw – Fanny's First Play
  • Karl Vollmöller – The Miracle (Das Mirakel)
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Jedermann
  • W. B. Yeats – The Countess Cathleen (adapted for performance)

1912[]

  • Arnold Bennett – Milestones
  • Paul Claudel – L'Annonce faite à Marie (The Tidings Brought to Mary, first performed)
  • George Diamandy – Rațiunea de stat (The Reason of State)
  • Dietrich Eckart – adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt
  • Louis Esson – The Time Is Not Yet Ripe
  • John Galsworthy – The Eldest Son
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal – Everyman, adapted as Jedermann
  • Stanley Houghton – The Younger Generation
  • Georg Kaiser – From Morning to Midnight (Von Morgens bis Mitternachts) (written)
  • Heinrich Mann – Die grosse Liebe (The Great Love, published)
  • J. Hartley Manners – Peg o' My Heart
  • Louis N. Parker – Drake of England
  • Arthur Schnitzler – Professor Bernhardi
  • George Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion (published)
  • G. K. Sowerby – Rutherford and Son[2][3][4][5]

1913[]

  • Franz Arnold and Ernst Bach – The Spanish Fly (Die spanische Fliege)
  • Jacinto Benavente – The Unloved Woman (La malquerida)
  • George A. Birmingham – General John Regan
  • Montague Glass and Charles Klein – Potash and Perlmutter
  • A. de Herz
    • Păianjenul (The Spider)
    • Bunicul (Grandfather)
  • Stanley Houghton
    • The Perfect Cure
    • Trust the People
  • Victor Ido – Karinda Adinda
  • D. H. Lawrence – The Daughter-in-Law (first performed 1967)
  • Oskar Luts – Kapsapea (The Cabbage)
  • Gregorio Martínez Sierra
    • Mamá (Mama)
    • Sólo para mujeres (For Women Only)
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky – Vladimir Mayakovsky («Владимир Маяковский»)
  • Edward Sheldon – Romance
  • Carl Sternheim – Bürger Schippel (Citizen Schippel)

1914[]

  • Frank Craven – Too Many Cooks (February 24, New York)
  • Lord Dunsany – Five Plays (publication)
  • Harley Granville-Barker – Vote By Ballot
  • D. H. Lawrence – The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (publication, revised version)
  • John Howard Lawson – Atmosphere
  • Terence MacSwiney – The Revolutionist (publication)[6]
  • Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett – It Pays to Advertise[7]
  • Ramanbhai Neelkanth – Raino Parvat[8]
  • Elmer Rice – On Trial
  • Edward Sheldon – The Song of Songs
  • J. E. Harold Terry and Lechmere Worrall – The Man Who Stayed at Home (also The White Feather)[9]
  • E. Temple Thurston – The Evolution of Katherine
  • Horace Annesley Vachell – Quinneys

1915[]

  • Susan Glaspell – Suppressed Desires
  • Avery Hopwood
    • Fair and Warmer
    • Sadie Love
  • Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Bilwamangal
  • – Common Clay
  • Louis N. Parker – Mavourneen
  • Patrick Pearse – The Singer (written)
  • Quintero brothers
    • Becquerina
    • Diana cazadora
  • Caton Theodorian – Bujoreștii
  • Horace Annesley Vachell – The Case of Lady Camber

1916[]

  • Jacinto Benavente – Campo de armiño (Ermine Field)
  • Hall Caine
    • The Prime Minister
    • The Iron Hand (also known as The Call of the King)
  • Luigi Chiarelli – La maschera e il volto: grottesco in tre atti (The Mask and the Face)
  • Ernest Fenollosa and Ezra Pound (translated & edited) – Certain Noble Plays of Japan (published)
  • Susan Glaspell – Trifles
  • Harley Granville-Barker – Farewell to the Theatre
  • Sacha Guitry – Let's Make a Dream
  • Walter C. Hackett - The Barton Mystery
  • Franz Kafka – The Warden of the Tomb (Der Gruftwächter; writing commenced)
  • Jack London – The Acorn Planter: A California Forest Play
  • André de Lorde – Le Laboratoire des hallucinations
  • Gregorio Martínez Sierra – El reino de Dios (The Kingdom of God)
  • Allan Monkhouse – Night Watches: a comedy in one act
  • Eden Philpotts – The Farmer's Wife
  • Sophie Treadwell – Claws
  • W. B. Yeats – At the Hawk's Well (private performance)

1917[]

  • Leonid Andreyev – The Life of Man
  • Guillaume Apollinaire – The Breasts of Tiresias (Les mamelles de Tirésias, written 1903, first performed)
  • Bruce Bairnsfather and Arthur Elliot – The Better 'Ole
  • J. M. Barrie – Dear Brutus
  • Dorothy Brandon – Wild Heather
  • Ferdinand Bruckner – Der Herr in den Nebeln
  • Hall Caine – The Woman Thou Gavest Me
  • Gilbert Cannan – Everybody's Husband
  • Jean Cocteau – Parade
  • John Drinkwater – X = 0: A Night of the Trojan War
  • John Galsworthy – Justice
  • Mary P. Hamlin and George Arliss – Hamilton
  • Georg Kaiser
    • The Burghers of Calais (Die Bürger von Calais, written 1913, first performed)
    • The Coral (Die Koralle)
    • From Morning to Midnight (Von Morgens bis Mitternachts, written 1912, first performed)
  • Somerset Maugham – Our Betters
  • A. A. Milne – Wurzel-Flummery
  • Luigi Pirandello – Right You Are (if you think so)
  • Gertrude Stein – An Exercise in Analysis
  • Ridgely Torrence – Three Plays for a Negro Theater
  • Brita von Horn – Kring drottningen
  • Jesse Lynch Williams – Why Marry?

1918[]

  • Bertolt Brecht – Baal (written)
  • John Drinkwater – Abraham Lincoln
  • Marcel Gerbidon and Paul Armont – School for Coquettes (L'École des cocottes)
  • Susan Glaspell – Tickless Time
  • Walter C. Hackett – The Freedom of the Seas
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal – The Difficult Man
  • James Joyce – Exiles
  • Georg Kaiser – Gas
  • Alice Dunbar Nelson – Mine Eyes Have Seen
  • Gregorio Martínez Sierra – Sueño de Una Noche de Agosto (Dream of an August Night)
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky – Mystery-Bouffe («Мистерия-Буфф», Misteriya-Buff)
  • Emma Orczy (Baroness Orczy) – The Legion of Honour (adaptation of A Sheaf of Bluebells)
  • Luigi Pirandello
    • But It's Nothing Serious (Ma non è una cosa seria)
    • The Rules of the Game (Il giuoco delle parti, literally The Game of Rôles)

1919[]

  • Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Divine Words (Divinas palabras)
  • Edward Salisbury Field – Wedding Bells
  • Susan Glaspell – Bernice
  • Harley Granville-Barker – The Secret Life
  • Ian Hay – Tilly of Bloomsbury
  • Robert Hichens – The Voice from the Minaret
  • Avery Hopwood – The Gold Diggers
  • Karl Kraus – The Last Days of Mankind (Die letzten Tage der Menschheit)
  • Kwee Tek Hoay – Allah jang Palsoe (The False God)
  • Else Lasker-Schüler – Die Wupper (The (river) Wupper; first performed, written 1908)
  • H. F. Maltby – A Temporary Gentleman
  • W. Somerset Maugham – Caesar's Wife
  • A. A. Milne
    • The Camberley Triangle
    • Mr. Pim Passes By
  • Louis N. Parker – Summertime
  • Liviu Rebreanu – The Quadrille
  • Ernst Toller – Transformation

1920[]

  • S. Ansky – The Dybbuk (first performed, in author's Yiddish translation as דֶער דִבּוּק צִווִישֶן צְווַיי ווֶעלְטֶן, Tzvishn Zwey Weltn – der Dibuk)
  • J. M. Barrie
    • A Kiss For Cinderella
    • Mary Rose
  • Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)
  • Nikolai Evreinov – The Storming of the Winter Palace
  • John Galsworthy – The Skin Game
  • Walter C. Hackett – Mr. Todd's Experiment
  • Georg Kaiser – Gas II
  • Edward Knoblock – Mumsie
  • Vladimir Mayakovsky – The Championship of the Universal Class Struggle
  • Eugene O'Neill – The Emperor Jones
  • Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood – The Bat
  • Ernst Toller – Man and Masses (Masse Mensch)
  • Louis Verneuil – Daniel
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – They (Oni)

1921[]

  • Hjalmar Bergman – Farmor och vår Herre (Grandmother and Our Lord, translated as Thy Rod and Thy Staff)
  • Dorothy Brandon – Araminta Arrives
  • Karel Čapek – R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) (performed)
  • Karel and Josef Čapek – Pictures from the Insects' Life (Ze života hmyzu, published)
  • Clemence Dane – A Bill of Divorcement
  • Gerald du Maurier – Bulldog Drummond (with H.C. McNeile)
  • Susan Glaspell – Inheritors (written) and The Verge (performed)
  • Ian Hay – A Safety Match
  • A. de Herz – Mărgeluș (Tiny Bead)
  • Avery Hopwood – The Demi-Virgin
  • René Morax – Le Roi David
  • Roland Pertwee – Out to Win
  • Luigi Pirandello – Six Characters in Search of an Author
  • Tristan Tzara – The Gas Heart
  • Edgar Wallace – M'Lady
  • Raden Adipati Aria Muharam Wiranatakusumah – Lutung Kasarung
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Water Hen (Kurka Wodna)

1922[]

  • Imtiaz Ali Taj – Anarkali
  • Arnolt Bronnen – Parricide (Vatermord)
  • Karel Čapek – The Makropulos Affair (Věc Makropulos)
  • Jean Cocteau – Antigone
  • J. B. Fagan (adaptation) – Treasure Island
  • Arthur Goodrich – So This Is London
  • Ian Hay – The Happy Ending
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal – The Great World Theatre (Das Salzburger große Welttheater)
  • Lauw Giok Lan – Pendidikan jang Kliroe
  • Eugene O'Neill – The Hairy Ape
  • Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩) – After Returning Home (回家以后)
  • Luigi Pirandello
    • Henry IV (Enrico IV)
    • Clothing the Naked (Vestire gli ignudi)
    • The Imbecile (L'imbecille)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Cenci (first public performance in England)
  • Carl Sternheim – The Fossil (Das Fossil)
  • Tian Han (田漢)
    • A Night in the Coffee Shop (Kafeidian Yi Ye)
    • Before Lunch (Wufan Zhiqian))
  • Ernst Toller – The Machine-Wreckers (Die Maschinenstürmer)
  • Ben Travers – The Dippers
  • Arthur Valentine – Tons of Money
  • John Willard – The Cat and the Canary

1923[]

  • Dorothy Brandon – The Outsider
  • Bertolt Brecht – In the Jungle of Cities
  • Gerald du Maurier – The Dancers
  • Ian Hay – Good Luck
  • Garnet Holme (adapted from Helen Hunt Jackson) – The Ramona Pageant
  • Georg Kaiser – Side by Side (Nebeneinander)
  • Charles McEvoy – The Likes of Her
  • Seán O'Casey – The Shadow of a Gunman
  • Elmer Rice – The Adding Machine
  • Arnold Ridley – The Ghost Train
  • Jules Romains – Knock (Knock, ou le Triomphe de la médecine)
  • George Bernard Shaw – Saint Joan
  • Marie Stopes – Our Ostriches
  • Ernst Toller – Hinkemann
  • Sergei Tretyakov
    • Do You Hear, Moscow? (Слышишь, Москва?!)
    • Earth in Turmoil
  • Sutton Vane – Outward Bound
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
    • The Crazy Locomotive (Szalona lokomotywa)
    • Janulka, Daughter of Fizdejko (Janulka, córka Fizdejki)
    • The Madman and the Nun (Wariat i zakonnica)

1924[]

  • Maxwell Anderson and Laurence Stallings – What Price Glory?
  • Louis Aragon – Backs to the Wall
  • Bertolt Brecht – The Life of Edward II of England (Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England, adapted from Marlowe)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov – The Fatal Eggs (Роковые яйца)
  • Alberto Casella – La morte in vacanza (Death Takes a Holiday)
  • Noël Coward
    • The Vortex (first performed)
    • Hay Fever (written)
    • Easy Virtue (written)
  • Ramón del Valle-Inclán – Bohemian Lights (Luces de Bohemia)
  • Henri Duvernois and Pierre Wolff – After Love
  • Nikolai Erdman – The Mandate (Мандат)
  • Ian Hay – The Sport of Kings
  • Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Aankh ka Nasha
  • George S. Kaufman and Marc Connelly – Beggar on Horseback
  • Frederick Lonsdale
    • The Fake
    • The Street Singer
  • Ivor Novello – The Rat
  • Seán O'Casey – Juno and the Paycock[10]
  • Eugene O'Neill – Desire Under the Elms
  • E. Phillips Oppenheim – The Passionate Quest
  • Louis N. Parker – Our Nell
  • Henrik Rytter – Herman Ravn
  • Githa Sowerby – The Stepmother (written)
  • Sergei Tretyakov – The Gas Masks (Противогазы)
  • Tristan Tzara – Handkerchief of Clouds (Mouchoir de Nuages)
  • Sutton Vane – Falling Leaves
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Mother (Matka)

1925[]

  • J. R. Ackerley – The Prisoners of War
  • Arnolt Bronnen – The Bird of Youth (Geburt der Jugend)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov – Zoyka's Apartment (written)
  • Noël Coward – Hay Fever (first performed) and Fallen Angels
  • Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – Number 17
  • Federico García Lorca – The Billy-Club Puppets (Los títeres de cachiporra)
  • Patrick Hastings – The River
  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal – The Tower (Der Turm)
  • Zora Neale Hurston – Color Struck
  • George Kelly – Craig's Wife
  • John Howard Lawson – Processional
  • Ben Travers – A Cuckoo in the Nest
  • John Van Druten – Young Woodley
  • Franz Werfel – Juarez und Maximilian
  • Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz – The Beelzebub Sonata (Sonata Belzebuba)
  • Carl Zuckmayer – The Merry Vineyard (Der fröhliche Weinberg)

1926[]

  • Dorothy Brandon – Blind Alley
  • Bertolt Brecht – Man Equals Man (Mann ist Mann)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov – Days of the Turbins («Дни Турбиных»)
  • G. D. H. Cole – The Striker Stricken
  • St. John Greer Ervine – Anthony and Anna
  • J. B. Fagan – And So To Bed
  • Joseph Jefferson Farjeon – After Dark
  • John Galsworthy – Escape
  • Patrick Hastings – Scotch Mist
  • Zora Neale Hurston – Color Struck (published)
  • Seán O'Casey – The Plough and the Stars
  • Eden Phillpotts – Blue Comet
  • Ben Travers – Rookery Nook
  • Sergei Tretyakov – I Want a Baby («Хочу ребёнка»)

1927[]

  • Isaac Babel – Sunset
  • Philip Barry – Paris Bound
  • Noel Pemberton Billing – High Treason
  • Bertolt Brecht – In The Jungle of Cities (Im Dickicht der Städte in its final version)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov – Flight («Бег», Beg, written)
  • James Bernard Fagan – The Greater Love
  • Federico García Lorca
    • Mariana Pineda
    • The Curse of the Butterfly, first production 1927 in the Teatro Eslava, Madrid
  • Joseph Goebbels – Der Wanderer (only performances; written 1923)
  • Walter C. Hackett – The Wicked Earl
  • DuBose Heyward and Dorothy Heyward – Porgy
  • Vsevolod Ivanov – Armoured Train 14-69 («Бронепоезд 14-69», Bronepoezd 14-69)
  • Georgia Douglas Johnson – Plumes
  • George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – The Royal Family
  • John Howard Lawson – Loud Speaker
  • Alexander Lernet-Holenia – Szene als Einleitung zu einer Totenfeier für Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Frederick Lonsdale – The High Road
  • W. Somerset Maugham – The Letter
  • Ernst Toller – Hoppla, We're Alive! (Hoppla, wir leben!)
  • Ben Travers – Thark
  • Jim Tully – Twenty Below
  • John Van Druten
  • Bayard Veiller – The Trial of Mary Dugan
  • Roger Vitrac – The Mysteries of Love (Les Mystères de l'amour)
  • Frank Vosper – The Combined Maze
  • Edgar Wallace
    • Double Dan
    • The Terror
  • Emlyn Williams – Full Moon
  • Carl Zuckmayer – Schinderhannes

1928[]

  • Jacinto Benavente – Pepa Doncel
  • Charles Bennett
  • Bertolt Brecht – The Threepenny Opera
  • Joe Corrie – In Time o' Strife
  • Eduardo De Filippo – Filosoficamente
  • Nikolai Erdman – The Suicide («Самоубийца», written)
  • Marieluise Fleißer – Pioneers in Ingolstadt (Pioniere in Ingolstadt)[11]
  • Garrett Fort – Jarnegan
  • Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Sita Banbas (published)[12]
  • Kwee Tek Hoay (郭德懷)– Korbannja Yi Yong Toen (Victims of Yi Yong Toen, published serially)
  • Patrick Hastings – The Moving Finger
  • Daniil Kharms – Elizabeth Bam («Елизавета Бам»)
  • Miroslav Krleža – The Glembays (Gospoda Glembajevi)
  • John Howard Lawson – The International
  • Alexander Lernet-Holenia, as Clemens Neydisser, and Stefan Zweig – Gelegenheit macht Liebe (Opportunity creates love) or Quiproquo
  • Federico García Lorca – The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden (Amor de Don Perlimplín con Belisa en su jardín, written)
  • Walter C. Hackett – Other Men's Wives
  • W. Somerset Maugham – The Sacred Flame
  • Ivor Novello – The Truth Game
  • Eugene O'Neill – Strange Interlude (first staging)
  • Eugen Ortner – Meier Helmbrecht
  • Ouyang Yuqian (欧阳予倩) – Pan Jinlian (潘金蓮)
  • R. C. Sherriff – Journey's End
  • Ben Travers – Plunder
  • Sophie Treadwell – Machinal
  • John Van Druten – The Return of the Soldier
  • Louis Verneuil – Monsieur Lamberthier
  • Roger Vitrac – Victor, or Power to the Children (Victor, ou les enfants au pouvoir)
  • Edgar Wallace
  • Carl Zuckmayer – Katharina Knie

1929[]

  • Jacinto Benavente – Vidas cruzadas (Short Cuts)
  • Henri Bernstein – Mélo
  • Bertolt Brecht – The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent (Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis)
  • Ferdinand Bruckner – Krankheit der Jugend (Illness of Youth)
  • St. John Ervine – The First Mrs. Fraser
  • Jean Giraudoux – Amphitryon 38
  • Walter C. Hackett – Sorry You've Been Troubled
  • Patrick Hamilton – Rope
  • Denis Johnston – The Old Lady Says "No!"
  • Agha Hashar Kashmiri – Rustom O Sohrab
  • Frederick Lonsdale – Canaries Sometimes Sing
  • Kaj Munk – I Brændingen
  • Eugene O'Neill – Dynamo
  • Marcel Pagnol – Marius
  • Stanisława Przybyszewska – The Danton Case (Sprawa Dantona)
  • Elmer Rice – Street Scene
  • George Bernard Shaw – The Apple Cart
  • Ahmed Shawqi – Masraa' Kliyubatra (The Death of Cleopatra)
  • John Van Druten – After All
  • Ödön von Horváth – Rund um den Kongreß
  • Edgar Wallace
    • The Calendar
    • Persons Unknown

1930[]

  • Rudolf Besier – The Barretts of Wimpole Street
  • Antoine Bibesco – Ladies All
  • Bertolt Brecht
    • Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny)[13]
    • The Decision (Die Maßnahme)
  • Ferdinand Bruckner – Elisabeth von England (Elizabeth of England)
  • Jean Cocteau – The Human Voice (La Voix humaine)
  • Marc Connelly – The Green Pastures
  • Noël Coward – Private Lives
  • Ian Hay and Guy Bolton – A Song of Sixpence
  • Ian Hay and P.G. Wodehouse – Leave It to Psmith
  • Nicolae Iorga
    • Sfântul Francisc
    • Fiul cel pierdut
  • Georgia Douglas Johnson – Blue-Eyed Black Boy
  • Geoffrey Kerr – London Calling
  • Kwee Tek Hoay – Nonton Tjapgome (Watching the Lantern Festival)
  • Federico García Lorca
  • Patrick MacGill – Suspense
  • Frank Vosper – Debonair
  • Edgar Wallace –
    • On the Spot
    • The Mouthpiece
    • Smoky Cell
  • Emlyn Williams – A Murder Has Been Arranged
  • Christa Winsloe – Ritter Nérestan (written as Gestern und heute, translated as Children in Uniform)
  • W. B. Yeats – The Words Upon The Window Pane

1931[]

1932[]

  • S. N. Behrman – Biography
  • Elias Canetti – Hochzeit (Wedding)
  • Noël Coward – Design for Living
  • Walter C. Hackett – Road House
  • Ian Hay – Orders Are Orders
  • Anthony Kimmins – While Parents Sleep
  • Edward Knoblock – Evensong
  • Ferdinand Kwasi Fiawoo – Toko Atolia
  • George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber – Dinner at Eight
  • W. Somerset Maugham – For Services Rendered
  • Ahmed Shawqi – Amirat el-Andalus (The Andalusian Princess)
  • John Van Druten
  • Ödön von Horváth – Kasimir und Karoline

1933[]

  • Tawfiq al-Hakim – Ahl el-Kahf (The People of the Cave)
  • Jean Anouilh – Mandarine
  • Clifford Bax – The Rose Without a Thorn
  • Ferdinand Bruckner – Die Rassen
  • Gordon Daviot (Josephine Tey) – Richard of Bordeaux
  • Selli Engler – Heil Hitler
  • Walter C. Hackett – Afterwards
  • Ian Hay – A Present from Margate
  • Hanns Johst –
  • Sidney Kingsley – Men in White
  • Federico García Lorca – Blood Wedding
  • W. Somerset Maugham – Sheppey
  • R.J. Minney – Clive of India
  • Ivor Novello – Fresh Fields
  • Eugene O'Neill – Ah, Wilderness!
  • J. B. Priestley – Laburnum Grove
  • Lennox Robinson – Drama at Inish
  • Mordaunt Shairp – The Green Bay Tree

1934[]

1935[]

  • J. R. Ackerley – The Prisoners of War
  • Maxwell Anderson – Winterset[14]
  • T. S. Eliot – Murder in the Cathedral[15]
  • Federico García Lorca – Doña Rosita the Spinster (Doña Rosita la soltera)[16]
  • Norman Ginsbury – Viceroy Sarah[17]
  • Jean Giraudoux – The Trojan War Will Not Take Place (La Guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu)[18]
  • Walter C. Hackett – Espionage
  • N.C. Hunter – All Rights Reserved
  • Ronald Jeans – The Composite Man
  • Anthony Kimmins – Chase the Ace
  • Archibald MacLeish – Panic
  • Bernard Merivale – The Unguarded Hour
  • Clifford Odets – Waiting for Lefty
  • Clifford Odets – Awake and Sing! premiered February 19, 1935 at Belasco Theatre, New York
  • Lawrence Riley – Personal Appearance
  • Dodie Smith – Call It a Day
  • John Van Druten – Most of the Game
  • Emlyn Williams – Night Must Fall

1936[]

  • Pralhad Keshav Atre
    • Lagnāchi Bedi
    • Udyāchā Sansār
  • W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood – The Ascent of F6
  • S. N. Behrman – End of Summer
  • Charles Bennett – Page From a Diary
  • Bertolt Brecht – Round Heads and Pointed Heads (Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe)
  • Noël Coward
    • Tonight at 8.30
    • Present Laughter
  • Mazo de la Roche and Nancy Price – Whiteoaks
  • Henry de Montherlant – Pasiphaé
  • Harley Granville-Barker – Waste (first public performance, 1927 version; originally written 1906)
  • Ian Hay – The Frog
  • George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart – You Can't Take It with You
  • Sinclair Lewis and John C. Moffitt – It Can't Happen Here (dramatisation)
  • Federico García Lorca – The House of Bernarda Alba (La casa de Bernarda Alba; written)
  • Clare Boothe Luce – The Women
  • Barré Lyndon – The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
  • J.B. Priestley – Bees on the Boat Deck
  • Terence Rattigan – French Without Tears
  • Irwin Shaw – Bury the Dead
  • Ödön von Horváth
    • Don Juan kommt aus dem Krieg (Don Juan Comes Back From the War)
    • Figaro läßt sich scheiden (Figaro Gets a Divorce)

1937[]

  • Bertolt Brecht with Margarete Steffin – Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar (adapted from J. M. Synge's Señora Carrar's Rifles)
  • Karel Čapek – The White Disease (Bílá nemoc)
  • Paul Vincent Carroll – Shadow and Substance
  • Jeffrey Dell – Blondie White
  • Reginald Denham and Edward Percy Smith – The Last Straw
  • Ian Hay – The Gusher
  • Margaret Kennedy – Autumn
  • Arthur Kober – "Having Wonderful Time"
  • Richard Llewellyn – Poison Pen
  • Robert McLellan – Jamie the Saxt
  • Robert Morley – Goodness, How Sad
  • J. B. Priestley – Time and the Conways
  • Walter Charles Roberts – Red Harvest[19][20]
  • Gerald Savory – George and Margaret
  • Dodie Smith – Bonnet Over the Windmill
  • John Van Druten – Gertie Maude
  • Louis Verneuil – The Train for Venice
  • Hella Wuolijoki writing as Juhani Tervapää – Juurakon Hulda
  • John Ferguson, editor – Seven Famous One-Act Plays (published)

1938[]

  • Jean Anouilh – Thieves' Carnival (Le Bal des Voleurs)
  • Robert Ardrey – Casey Jones
  • Paul Claudel – L'Histoire de Tobie et de Sara (The History of Tobit and Sara, first version)
  • M. J. Farrell – Spring Meeting
  • Patrick Hamilton – Gaslight
  • H.M. Harwood – The Innocent Party
  • Esther McCracken – Quiet Wedding
  • Kaj Munk – Han sidder ved Smeltediglen (He sits by the melting pot)
  • Michael Pertwee – Death on the Table
  • J. B. Priestley – When We Are Married
  • Robert E. Sherwood – Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  • Dodie Smith – Dear Octopus
  • Stephen Spender – Trial of a Judge
  • Lesley Storm – Tony Draws a Horse
  • Arnold Sundgaard
    • Spirochete: A History
    • with Marc Connelly – Everywhere I Roam
  • Rodolfo Usigli – El gesticulador
  • Theodore Ward – Big White Fog
  • Thornton Wilder – Our Town
  • Emlyn Williams – The Corn is Green
  • Tennessee Williams – Not About Nightingales (written; first performed 1998)
  • W. B. Yeats – Purgatory

1939[]

  • Philip Barry – The Philadelphia Story
  • Bertolt Brecht
    • Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei; completed)
    • Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder; written)
  • Mikhail Bulgakov – Batumi (left unfinished)
  • T. S. Eliot – The Family Reunion
  • Jean Giraudoux – Ondine
  • Ian Hay – Little Ladyship
  • Frank Harvey – Saloon Bar
  • Lillian Hellman – The Little Foxes
  • N.C. Hunter – Grouse in June
  • George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart – The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • Joseph Kesselring – Arsenic and Old Lace
  • Clare Boothe Luce – Margin of Error
  • Barré Lyndon – The Man in Half Moon Street
  • J. B. Priestley – Johnson Over Jordan
  • William Saroyan – The Time of Your Life

1940[]

  • Jean Anouilh – Léocadia
  • Ugo Betti – Il cacciatore di anitre (The Duck Hunter)
  • Bertolt Brecht – Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti, written)
  • Agatha Christie – Peril at End House
  • Jean Cocteau – Le Bel indifférent
  • Artturi Järviluoma – Pohjalaisia
  • Terence Rattigan and Anthony Goldsmith – Follow My Leader (first performed)
  • Lawrence Riley – Return Engagement
  • George Shiels – The Rugged Path
  • Vernon Sylvaine – Nap Hand
  • John Van Druten –
    • Leave Her to Heaven
    • Old Acquaintance
  • Emlyn Williams
    • The Corn Is Green
    • The Light of Heart

1941[]

1942[]

  • Jean Anouilh – Antigone
  • Jacinto Benavente – La honradez de la cerradura [es]
  • Paul Vincent Carroll – The Strings Are False
  • Constance Cox – The Romance of David Garrick
  • Henry de Montherlant – La Reine morte
  • Maurice Druon – Mégarée
  • Patrick Hastings – Escort
  • Arthur Miller – Thunder from the Hills (radio play)
  • Kaj Munk – Niels Ebbesen
  • Eugene O'Neill – A Touch of the Poet (written)
  • Terence Rattigan – Flare Path
  • John Van Druten – The Damask Cheek

1943[]

  • Bertolt Brecht
    • The Good Person of Szechwan (Der gute Mensch von Sezuan)
    • Life of Galileo (Leben des Galilei)
  • Albert Camus – The Misunderstanding (Le Malentendu)
  • Moss Hart – Winged Victory
  • Frank Harvey – Brighton Rock
  • Fritz Hochwälder – Das Heilige Experiment (The Holy Experiment, The Strong Are Lonely)
  • Esther McCracken – Living Room
  • Elena Miramova – Dark Eyes
  • M. J. Molloy – Old Road
  • Armijn Pane – Kami, Perempuan (We, the Women)
  • J.B. Priestley – They Came to a City
  • Terence Rattigan - While the Sun Shines
  • Nelson Rodrigues – Vestido de Noiva (The Wedding Dress)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – The Flies (Les Mouches)
  • Yang Jiang – As You Desire (Chenxin ruyi)

1944[]

  • Jean Anouilh – Antigone
  • Ugo Betti – Corruzione al Palazzo di giustizia (Corruption in the Palace of Justice, written)
  • Bertolt Brecht – The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis), written
  • Daphne du Maurier – The Years Between
  • Balwant Gargi – Lohākuṭ (Blacksmith)
  • Philip King – See How They Run
  • Max Otto Koischwitz – Vision of Invasion (broadcast propaganda)
  • Esther McCracken – No Medals
  • Terence Rattigan - Love In Idleness (rewriting of Less Than Kind)
  • Lawrence Riley – Time to Kill
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – No Exit (Huis Clos)
  • John Van Druten – I Remember Mama
  • Franz Werfel – Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Jacobowsky und der Oberst)
  • Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie

1945[]

1946[]

  • Arthur Adamov – L'Aveu (The Confession)
  • Clifford Bax – Golden Eagle
  • S. N. Behrman – Jane
  • Ugo Betti – Delitto all'isola delle capre (Crime on Goat Island)
  • Jean Cocteau – L'Aigle à deux têtes
  • Constance Cox – Vanity Fair
  • Eduardo De Filippo
    • Filumena Marturano
    • Questi fantasmi (All these ghosts)
  • Christopher Fry – A Phoenix Too Frequent (verse)
  • Kenneth Horne – Fools Rush In
  • Frederick Lonsdale – But for the Grace of God
  • Ewan MacColl – Uranium 235
  • Donagh MacDonagh – Happy as Larry
  • Robert McLeish – The Gorbals Story
  • Louis MacNeice – The Dark Tower (radio play)
  • Bernard Miles – Let Tyrants Tremble!
  • Ronald Millar – Frieda
  • Henry de Montherlant – Malatesta
  • Eugene O'Neill – The Iceman Cometh
  • J.B. Priestley – Ever Since Paradise
  • Terence Rattigan – The Winslow Boy
  • Nelson Rodrigues – Álbum de família
  • Carl Zuckmayer – Des Teufels General (The Devil's General)

1947[]

  • Jean Anouilh – Invitation to the Castle (L'Invitation au Château)
  • Pralhad Keshav Atre – Moruchi Mavshi (adaptation of Charley's Aunt)
  • Ugo Betti – Ispezione (The Inquiry)
  • Maurice Clavel – Les Incendiaires
  • William Douglas-Home
  • Jean Genet – The Maids (Les Bonnes)
  • Patrick Hastings – The Blind Goddess
  • Ian Hay
    • Hattie Stowe
    • Off the Record
  • Noel Langley and Robert Morley – Edward, My Son
  • Arthur Miller – All My Sons
  • Ena Lamont Stewart – Men Should Weep
  • John Van Druten – The Druid Circle
  • A.R. Whatmore – She Wanted a Cream Front Door
  • Tennessee Williams – A Streetcar Named Desire

1948[]

  • Bertolt Brecht – Antigone, The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mr Puntila and his Man Matti (Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti, first performed)
  • Robertson Davies – Overlaid
  • Witold Gombrowicz – The Marriage (first published, in Spanish translation)
  • Kenneth Horne – A Lady Mislaid
  • Junji Kinoshita – Yūzuru (Twilight Crane)
  • Dudley Leslie and J. Lee Thompson – The Human Touch
  • Terence Rattigan – The Browning Version and Harlequinade
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Dirty Hands (Les Mains sales)
  • Vernon Sylvaine - One Wild Oat
  • John Van Druten – Make Way for Lucia
  • Kerala women's Malayalam collective – Thozhil Kendrathilekku (To the Workplace!)

1949[]

  • Ugo Betti – Corruzione al Palazzo di giustizia (Corruption in the Palace of Justice, written 1944, first performed)
  • Maurice Clavel – La Terrasse de midi
  • T. S. Eliot – The Cocktail Party
  • Christopher Fry – The Lady's Not for Burning
  • Jean Genet – Deathwatch (Haute Surveillance)
  • Val Gielgud – Party Manners
  • Sidney Kingsley – Detective Story
  • Arthur Miller – Death of a Salesman
  • Pablo Picasso – The Four Little Girls (Les Quatre petites filles), first published version
  • Lynn Riggs – Out of Dust
  • Nelson Rodrigues – Dorotéia

1950[]

  • Arthur Adamov
    • La Parodie
    • L'Invasion
    • La Grande et la Petite Manoeuvre
  • Bertolt Brecht – The Tutor (Der Hofmeister, adapted from Lenz)
  • Wynyard Browne – The Holly and the Ivy
  • Emilio Carballido – Rosalba y los Llaveros
  • Campbell Christie – His Excellency
  • John Dighton – Who Goes There!
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt – Romulus the Great (Romulus der Große)
  • Christopher Fry – Venus Observed
  • Hugh Hastings – Seagulls Over Sorrento
  • Kermit Hunter – Unto These Hills
  • William Inge – Come Back, Little Sheba
  • Eugène Ionesco – The Bald Soprano (La Cantatrice chauve)
  • Benn Levy – Return to Tyassi
  • Frederick Lonsdale – The Way Things Go
  • Roger MacDougall
  • Esther McCracken – Cry Liberty
  • Terence Rattigan – Who Is Sylvia?
  • Nelly Sachs – Eli: Ein Mysterienspiel vom Leiden Israels (verse)
  • C.P. Snow – View Over the Park
  • John Steinbeck – Burning Bright
  • Vernon Sylvaine – Will Any Gentleman?

1951[]

  • Muriel Box and Sydney Box – The Seventh Veil
  • Agatha Christie – The Hollow
  • Ian Hay – The White Sheep of the Family
  • Kenneth Horne – And This Was Odd
  • Eugène Ionesco – The Lesson (La Leçon)
  • Ronald Jeans – Count Your Blessings
  • Maryat Lee – Dope!
  • A. A. Milne – Before the Flood
  • Lawrence Riley – Kin Hubbard
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – The Devil and the Good Lord (Le Diable et le Bon Dieu)
  • John Van Druten – I Am a Camera
  • John Whiting
  • Tennessee Williams – The Rose Tattoo

1952[]

  • Rodney Ackland – The Pink Room
  • Jean Anouilh
    • The Lark (L'Alouette)
    • The Waltz of the Toreadors (La Valse des toréadors)
  • Jacinto Benavente –  [es]
  • Alice Childress – Gold Through the Trees
  • Noël Coward – Quadrille
  • Constance Cox – Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
  • Robertson Davies – A Masque of Aesop
  • Henry de Montherlant – La Ville dont le prince est un enfant (The City Whose Prince is a Child; first performance in first published version)
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi (Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi, first performance)
  • Joseph Kramm – The Shrike
  • Charles Langbridge Morgan – The River Line
  • Roger MacDougall – Escapade
  • J.B. Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes – Dragon's Mouth
  • Terence Rattigan – The Deep Blue Sea
  • Dodie Smith – Letter from Paris
  • Ben Travers – Wild Horses
  • John Van Druten – I've Got Sixpence

1953[]

  • Arthur Adamov – Professor Taranne (Le Professeur Taranne)
  • Robert Anderson – Tea and Sympathy
  • Alex Atkinson – Four Winds
  • Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot (En attendant Godot)
  • Mary Hayley Bell – The Uninvited Guest
  • Ugo Betti – The Fugitive (La Fuggitiva, premiered posthumously)
  • Wynyard Browne – A Question of Fact
  • Agatha Christie – Witness for the Prosecution
  • Campbell Christie and – Carrington V.C.
  • R.F. Delderfield – The Orchard Walls
  • Max Frisch – The Fire Raisers (Biedermann und die Brandstifter, originally for radio)
  • Witold Gombrowicz – The Marriage (Ślub, Polish version published)
  • Kenneth Horne – Trial and Error
  • N.C. Hunter – A Day by the Sea
  • William Inge - Picnic
  • Arthur Miller – The Crucible
  • Erwin Strittmatter – Katzgraben
  • Vernon Sylvaine – As Long as They're Happy

1954[]

  • Tawfiq al-Hakim – El Aydi El Na'mah (Soft Hands)
  • Brendan Behan – The Quare Fellow
  • Dharamvir Bharati – Andha Yug (The Blind Age)
  • William Douglas Home – The Manor of Northstead
  • Peter Jones – The Party Spirit
  • Saunders Lewis – Siwan
  • Ronald Millar – Waiting for Gillian
  • Terence Rattigan – Separate Tables
  • Reginald Rose – Twelve Angry Men (original version as live teleplay)
  • Dylan Thomas – Under Milk Wood (radio play)
  • Thornton Wilder – The Matchmaker
  • Herman Wouk – The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial

1955[]

  • Arthur Adamov – Le Ping-Pong
  • Enid Bagnold – The Chalk Garden
  • Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot (English version)
  • Bertolt Brecht – Trumpets and Drums (Pauken und Trompeten; adaptation of Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, 1706)
  • João Cabral de Melo Neto – Morte e Vida Severina (Severine Life and Death, verse)
  • Alice Childress – Trouble in Mind
  • John Dighton – Man Alive!
  • Sonnie Hale – The French Mistress
  • William Inge – Bus Stop
  • Eugène Ionesco
    • Jack, or The Submission (Jacques ou la soumission)
    • The New Tenant (Le Nouveau locataire)
  • Kol Jakova – Toka jonë (Our Land)
  • Ray Lawler – Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
  • Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee – Inherit the Wind
  • Philip Mackie – The Whole Truth
  • Arthur Miller
    • A View from the Bridge (one-act verse version)
    • A Memory of Two Mondays
  • J.B. Priestley – Mr. Kettle and Mrs. Moon
  • Reginald Rose – Twelve Angry Men (stage version)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – Nekrassov
  • Ariano Suassuna – O Auto da Compadecida (The Compassionate Self)
  • Orson Welles – Moby Dick—Rehearsed
  • Thornton Wilder
    • The Matchmaker
    • A Life in the Sun
  • Tennessee Williams – Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Carl Zuckmayer – The Cold Light (Das kalte Licht)

1956[]

  • Jean Anouilh – Pauvre Bitos, ou Le dîner de têtes (Poor Bitos)
  • Ferdinand Bruckner – The Fight with the Angel (Der Kampf mit dem Engel)
  • José Manuel Castañón – Moletú-Volevá
  • Friedrich Dürrenmatt – The Visit (Der Besuch der alten Dame)
  • Max Frisch – Philipp Hotz's Fury (Die Grosse Wut des Philipp Hotz)
  • Anna Langfus – Les Lepreux (The Lepers, first performed)
  • Hugh Leonard – The Birthday Party
  • Saunders Lewis – Siwan
  • Bruce Mason – The Pohutukawa Tree
  • Ronald Millar – The Bride and the Bachelor
  • Arthur Miller – A View from the Bridge (revised version)
  • Yukio Mishima – Rokumeikan
  • Heiner Müller and Inge Müller – Der Lohndrücker (The Scab, written)
  • Eugene O'Neill – Long Day's Journey into Night
  • John Osborne – Look Back in Anger
  • Arnold Wesker – Chicken Soup with Barley (written)

1957[]

  • Samuel Beckett – Endgame and Act Without Words I (first performed); All That Fall and From an Abandoned Work (first broadcast of both)
  • Emilio Carballido – El censo
  • William Douglas Home – The Iron Duchess
  • Christopher Fry – The Dark is Light Enough
  • Jean Genet – The Balcony (Le Balcon)
  • Günter Grass – Flood (Hochwasser)
  • Graham Greene – The Potting Shed
  • William Inge – The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
  • Errol John – Moon on a Rainbow Shawl
  • Bernard Kops – The Hamlet of Stepney Green
  • John Osborne
    • The Entertainer
    • Epitaph for George Dillon
  • Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter (written)
  • N. F. Simpson – The Resounding Tinkle
  • Wole Soyinka – The Invention
  • Boris Vian – Les Bâtisseurs d'Empire (The Empire Builders)
  • Tennessee Williams
    • Baby Doll
    • Orpheus Descending

1958[]

  • Samuel Beckett – Krapp's Last Tape
  • Brendan Behan – The Hostage
  • Bertolt Brecht – The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui, written 1941, first performed)
  • Clemence Dane – Eighty in the Shade
  • Refik Erduran – Bir Kilo Namus (One Kilo Honesty)
  • Max Frisch – The Fire Raisers (Biedermann und die Brandstifter, first stage adaptation)
  • Jean Genet – The Blacks: A Clown Show (Les Nègres, clownerie, first published)
  • Kenneth Horne – Wolf's Clothing
  • N.C. Hunter – A Touch of the Sun
  • Ann Jellicoe – The Sport of My Mad Mother
  • Ronald Millar – The Big Tickle
  • Sławomir Mrożek – The Police (Policja)
  • Heiner Müller and Inge Müller
    • Die Korrektur (The Correction)
    • Der Lohndrücker (The Scab, first performed)
  • Mohan Rakesh – Ashadh Ka Ek Din (आषाढ़ का एक दिन, One Day in Ashadh)
  • Barry Reckord – Flesh to a Tiger
  • Elmer Rice – Cue for Passion
  • Peter Shaffer – Five Finger Exercise
  • N. F. Simpson – The Hole
  • Wole Soyinka – The Swamp Dwellers
  • Derek Walcott – Drums and Colours
  • Arnold Wesker – Chicken Soup with Barley (first performed)
  • Tennessee Williams – Suddenly, Last Summer

1959[]

  • Edward Albee
    • The Death of Bessie Smith (written)
    • The Zoo Story (premiered in German)
  • Jean Anouilh – Becket
  • John Arden – Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
  • Alan Ayckbourn (as Roland Allen) – The Square Cat
  • Samuel Beckett – Embers (first broadcast)
  • Bertolt Brecht (died 1956) – Saint Joan of the Stockyards (Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe, first stage performance)
  • Albert Camus – The Possessed (Les Possédés)
  • Beverley Cross – One More River
  • William Douglas Home – Aunt Edwina
  • Refik Erduran – Cengiz Han’ın Bisikleti (The Bicycle of Genghis Khan)
  • Jack Gelber – The Connection
  • Jean Genet – The Blacks: A Clown Show (Les Nègres, clownerie, first performed)
  • Lorraine Hansberry – A Raisin in the Sun
  • Eugène Ionesco – The Killer (Tueur sans gages)
  • Geoffrey Lumsden – Caught Napping
  • Harold Pinter – The Caretaker (first published)
  • Zofia Posmysz – Pasażerka z kabiny 45 (Passenger from Cabin 45, radio drama)
  • Jean-Paul Sartre – The Condemned of Altona (Les Séquestrés d'Altona, translated as Loser Wins)
  • N. F. Simpson – One Way Pendulum
  • Wole Soyinka – The Lion and the Jewel
  • Arnold Wesker
    • Roots
    • The Kitchen
  • Tennessee Williams – Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Egon Wolff – Parejas de trapo

1960[]

  • Arthur Adamov – Le Printemps '71 (Spring [18]71)
  • Tawfiq al-Hakim – El Sultan El-Ha'er (The Sultan Perplexed)
  • Edward Albee – The Death of Bessie Smith and The Sandbox (first performances)
  • Samuel Beckett – The Old Tune (first broadcast)
  • Robert Bolt – A Man for All Seasons (stage version) and The Tiger and the Horse
  • Marc Camoletti – Boeing-Boeing
  • Noël Coward – Waiting in the Wings
  • Beverley Cross – Strip the Willow
  • Witold Gombrowicz – The Marriage (Ślub, first performance)
  • Eugène Ionesco – Rhinocéros
  • Ira Levin – Critic's Choice
  • Stephen Lewis and Theatre Workshop – Sparrers Can't Sing
  • Bruce Mason – The End of the Golden Weather
  • Tad Mosel – All the Way Home
  • Harold Pinter
    • The Caretaker (first performed and published)
    • The Room (first professional performance)
    • A Night Out (first broadcast)
  • Terence Rattigan – Ross
  • Barry Reckord – You in Your Small Corner
  • Nelson Rodrigues – Beijo no Asfalto (The Asphalt Kiss)
  • Wole Soyinka – A Dance of the Forests
  • Gore Vidal – The Best Man
  • Maruxa Vilalta – Los disorientados (The Disoriented Ones)
  • Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall – Billy Liar
  • Orson Welles (adaptation) – Chimes at Midnight
  • Tennessee Williams – Period of Adjustment

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