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