John Gay

John Gay

male, deceased (1732)
Fabulist, buried at Westminster Abbey, poet, Playwright, dramatist, English
John Gay (30 June,1685 - 4 December,1732) was an English poet and dramatist. He is best remembered for "The Beggar's Opera" (1728), set to music by...
John Ford

John Ford

male, 423 years old
baptised, poet, publication, Middle Temple, Exeter College, Oxford, Alumni of Exeter College, Oxford…English Renaissance dramatist, dramatist
John Ford (baptised April 17, 1586 - c.1640?) was an English Jacobean and Caroline playwright and poet born in Ilsington in Devon in 1586. Ford...
Jean Cocteau

Jean Cocteau

male, deceased (1963)
Roman Catholic, death by myocardial infarction, surrealist, poet, dramatist, Filmmaker
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker. His versatile, unconventional ap...
Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

male, deceased (1987)
bordeaux, Playwright, L’Hermine, French, University of Paris, violinist…dramatist
Jean Anouilh (June 23, 1910 - October 3, 1987) was a French dramatist.
John Webster

John Webster

male, deceased (1634)
Playwright, English Renaissance dramatist, dramatist, jacobean, the duchess of malfi, English
John Webster (c. 1580 - c. 1634) was an English Jacobean dramatist, a late contemporary of William Shakespeare. His tragedies "The White Devil" and...
Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

male, deceased (1655)
Cyrano Hercule Savinien de Bergerac, dramatist, French, Lycée Louis-le-Grand alumni, Playwright, Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano Hercule Savinien de Bergerac (6 March 1619 - 28 July 1655) was a French dramatist and duellist born in Paris, who is now best remembered for...
Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker

male, deceased (1632)
Playwright, English Renaissance dramatist, dramatist, elizabethan, English, Elizabethan era
Thomas Dekker (c. 1572 - August 25 1632) was an Elizabethan dramatist and pamphleteer, a versatile and prolific writer whose career spanned several...

Václav Havel

male, 73 years old
Erasmus Prize winner, Olof Palme Prize laureate, Prince of Asturias Award winner, From Prague, President of Czechoslovakia, President of the Czech Republic…dramatist
Václav Havel, GCB, CC, (born October 5, 1936 in Prague) is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the ninth and last President of Czechoslovakia (...
Jean Racine

Jean Racine

male, deceased (1699)
poet, Member of the Académie française, Playwright, French, Neoclassicism, 17th century…dramatist
Jean Racine (December 22, 1639 - April 21, 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France (along with Molière and C...
Thomas Kyd

Thomas Kyd

male, deceased (1594)
Thomas Hawkins, The Spanish Tragedie, tudor, Old Merchant Taylor, Scholar, hamlet…dramatist, English Renaissance dramatist
Thomas Kyd was an English dramatist, the author of "The Spanish Tragedy", and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan...