Famous Playwrights Word Search

Find celebrated playwrights from ancient Greek drama to modern theater, including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Lorraine Hansberry, and Samuel Beckett.

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About the Famous Playwrights Word Search

This puzzle features influential playwrights from different eras and traditions, from ancient writers such as Sophocles and Euripides to modern voices such as Lorraine Hansberry and Tom Stoppard. Look for names including Molière, Oscar Wilde, and August Wilson. It is a good fit for readers, theater fans, and students studying drama or literary history.

All 41 words in this puzzle

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  • Aeschylus
  • Alan Ayckbourn
  • Aristophanes
  • Arthur Miller
  • Athol Fugard
  • August Wilson
  • Beckett
  • Ben Jonson
  • Brecht
  • Brian Friel
  • Calderón
  • Caryl Churchill
  • Cervantes
  • Chekhov
  • Corneille
  • David Mamet
  • Edward Albee
  • Euripides
  • Goethe
  • Goldoni
  • Ibsen
  • Ionesco
  • Lope de Vega
  • Marlowe
  • Molière
  • O'Neill
  • Peter Shaffer
  • Pinter
  • Plautus
  • Racine
  • Sam Shepard
  • Schiller
  • Seneca
  • Shakespeare
  • Shaw
  • Sophocles
  • Stoppard
  • Strindberg
  • Tony Kushner
  • Wilde
  • Wole Soyinka

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