* 1586 – John Ford, English dramatist ( d. 1639 )

* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* 2005 – Mary Hayley Bell, English dramatist, wife of Sir John Mills ( b. 1911 )

* John Ford ( dramatist ) ( 1586 – ca. 1640 ), English playwright and poet during Jacobean and Caroline literary eras ; best known for 1633 tragedy Tis Pity She's a Whore

* John Gay, English dramatist and poet

** St. John Greer Ervine, Northern Irish dramatist and author ( b. 1883 )

** John Day, English dramatist ( d. 1640 )

* probable – John Ford, dramatist ( b. 1586 )

* June 25 – John Marston, English dramatist ( b. 1576 )

* December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

* January 6 – John Dennis, English dramatist and critic ( b. 1658 )

* March 26 – John Vanbrugh, English architect and dramatist ( b. 1664 )

* September 22 – John Home, Scottish dramatist ( d. 1808 )

* April 17 – John Ford, English dramatist and poet ( d. 1640 )

** John Heywood, English dramatist ( b. 1497 )

* September 16 – John Dennis, English dramatist and critic ( d. 1734 )

* May 12 – John Dryden, English poet and dramatist who was poet laureate ( 1670 – 1688 ).

Warbeck's story subsequently attracted writers — most notably by the dramatist John Ford, who dramatized the story in his play Perkin Warbeck, first performed in the 1630s.

Saunders Lewis ( born John Saunders Lewis ) ( 15 October 1893 – 1 September 1985 ) was a Welsh poet, dramatist, historian, literary critic, and political activist.

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

* W. S. Gilbert, dramatist and author, who with Arthur Sullivan wrote the Savoy Operas, ashes buried at the Church of St. John the Evangelist, Stanmore.

Sir John Vanbrugh (; 24 January 1664 ( baptised ) – 26 March 1726 ) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.

The few comedies produced also tended to be political in focus, the whig dramatist Thomas Shadwell sparring with the tories John Dryden and Aphra Behn.

* John Home, poet and dramatist

** John Ford, dramatist ( born 1584 )

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Ford left home to study in London, although more specific details are unclear — a sixteen-year-old John Ford of Devon was admitted to Exeter College, Oxford on 26 March 1601, but this was when the dramatist had not yet reached his sixteenth birthday.

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According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

This early form of democracy was recorded by the philosopher Rousseau, by the poet Wordsworth, by the dramatist Tirso de Molina and by the composer Iparraguirre, who wrote the piece called Gernikako Arbola.

Gradually losing his Catholic faith, he studied literature and philosophy at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, Freiburg and Heidelberg, where he wrote his doctoral thesis on a minor 19th century romantic dramatist, Wilhelm von Schütz.

Plautus wrote around 52 plays, of which 20 have survived, making him the most prolific ancient dramatist in terms of surviving work.

He also hoped to become a historical novelist or a dramatist, and in the same year he wrote his first essay, Dell ' amor patrio di Dante (" On Dante's Patriotic Love "), which was published in 1837.

* April 21 – Jean Racine, French dramatist who wrote several great tragedies based on Greek and Roman literature ( b. 1639 )

He later wrote to dramatist W. S. Gilbert, " I envy your position but I could never attain it.

The dramatist Euripides also wrote a play called Antigone, which is lost, but some of the text was preserved by later writers and in passages in his Phoenissae.

* Christopher Marlowe – Elizabethan dramatist lived in Norton Folgate, the southern continuation of Shoreditch High Street, and wrote plays for the Shoreditch theatres.

In September of that year, director and dramatist Cezarina Udrescu staged a multimedia performance based on a number of works Mircea Eliade wrote during his stay in Portugal ; titled Apocalipsa după Mircea Eliade (" The Apocalypse According to Mircea Eliade "), and shown as part of a Romanian Radio cultural campaign, it starred Ion Caramitru, Oana Pellea and Răzvan Vasilescu.

David Addenbrooke wrote of Hall's belief that Shakespeare, more than any other dramatist, needed a ' style ', a tradition and unity of direction and acting.

* In 1977, the Nigerian Nobel Prize-winning playwright and dramatist Wole Soyinka wrote, produced and directed Opera Wonyosi ( publ.

Harold Bloom rejects the theory that Shakespeare wrote Edward III, on the grounds that he finds " nothing in the play representative of the dramatist who had written Richard III.

" During her tenure as resident dramatist at London ’ s Royal Court Theatre, Churchill wrote Objections to Sex and Violence ( 1974 ), which, though not well-reviewed, led to her successful association with David Hare and Max Stafford-Clark ’ s Joint Stock Company and with Monstrous Regiment, a feminist group.

A veteran radio dramatist, Ferrin Fraser, wrote some of the scripts.

He wrote some plays that were produced on the London stage with a certain measure of success, owing more perhaps to the acting of Charles and Fanny Kemble than to the merits of the dramatist.

François l ' Hermite ( c. 1601 – 7 September 1655 ) was a French dramatist who wrote under the name Tristan l ' Hermite.

The dramatist and actor Micheál MacLiammóir ( 1899 – 1978 ) included many poetic verses he wrote in the Irish-language in his works.

Once established as a dramatist, Brome wrote for all the major acting companies and theaters of his era — for the Blackfriars Theatre ; for the Red Bull Theatre ; and from 1635 onward, for the King's Revels Company and Queen Henrietta's Men at the Salisbury Court Theatre.

The dramatist Michel-Jean Sedaine wrote the text of his first opera for the company, Le diable à quatre, in 1756.

The famous play, Le Gendre de M. Poirier, is one of several which he wrote in collaboration with Émile Augier -- the novelist usually contributing the story and the dramatist the theatrical form.

The Elliot Library is named after former inter-war Cabinet Minister Walter Elliot ; the Bridie Library after Osborne Mavor, physician and dramatist, who wrote under the pseudonym, " James Bridie "; and the Reading Room is dedicated to Donald Dewar, former President of the Union, Secretary of State for Scotland and First Minister of Scotland.

As a dramatist, Robertson began with adaptations of Dickens novels and wrote music hall songs for comedians.