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Name Dropping #13: British Playwrights

Each hint is the beginning of the name of a British playwright. Match it to their surname by selecting from among the choices given. The Additional Hint displays the playwright’s birth year (if living) or birth and death years (if deceased) and the title of one of their best-known plays. Use the Additional Hint to distinguish between playwrights with the same given name or similar given names.

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Howard
b. 1942. Bloody Poetry
James
b. c. 1982. Labour of Love
Caryl
b. 1938. Top Girls
Michael
b. 1933. Noises Off
William
1564-1616. Romeo and Juliet
Tom
b. 1937. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Christopher
1564-1593. Doctor Faustus
Alan
b. 1939. Absurd Person Singular
Noël
1899-1973. Private Lives
Ben
1572-1637. Volpone
Harold
1930-2008. The Homecoming
Alan
b. 1934. History Boys
Sarah
1971-1999. Blasted
Peter
1926-2016. Equus
John
c. 1578 - c. 1632. The Duchess of Malfi
Oscar
1854-1900. The Importance of Being Earnest
J. B.
1894-1984. An Inspector Calls
John
1867-1933. Justice
John
1576-1634. The Malcontent
Arthur Wing
1855-1934. The Second Mrs Tanqueray
George Bernard
1856-1950. Pygmalion
David
b. 1947. Stuff Happens
Samuel Taylor
1772-1834. Remorse
Graham
1904-1991. The Power and the Glory
William
1611-1643. The Lady Errant
Ayckbourn
Bennett
Brenton
Cartwright
Churchill
Coleridge
Coward
Frayn
Galsworthy
Graham
Greene
Hare
Jonson
Kane
Marlowe
Marston
Pinero
Pinter
Priestley
Shaffer
Shakespeare
Shaw
Stoppard
Webster
Wilde
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