John Dryden (1631-1700)
Age: Restoration Age
Notable Works: "All for Love," "Marriage à la Mode," "The Indian Emperour"
William Wycherley (1641-1716)
Age: Restoration Age
Notable Works: "The Country Wife," "The Plain Dealer"
William Congreve (1670-1729)
Age: Restoration Age and early 18th century
Notable Works: "The Way of the World," "Love for Love"
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Age: Late Victorian to Modern Age
Notable Works: "Pygmalion," "Saint Joan," "Man and Superman"
John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
Age: Modernist Period (Irish Literary Revival)
Notable Works: "The Playboy of the Western World," "Riders to the Sea"