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George Calderon
List of playwrights by date of death (1943-1955) by year of death
See Australian copyright expiry conditions
1954
Malcolm Afford
"Lady in Danger" (1949) full length comedy thriller - features a tape recorder.
1954
John L. Balderston
Genius of the Marne (1919)
list of works "Red Planet" (1932) "Dracula" (1927)
1954
Frederick Lonsdale
Aren't we all (1924)
Last Days of Mrs. Cheyney (1927)
[1]
1953
Frederick J. Jackson
The Naughty Wife (1941)
Full House:a farce 1915
Hidden Princess: a modern romance 1910
1953
Percival Wilde
The Noble Lord - one act comedy
The Reckoning - one act comedy
Confessional (1916)
His return (one act 1918)
The sequel (one act 1922)
The noble lord, The traitor, A house of cards, Playing with fire, The finger of God (one act plays ?date
1953
Collette
copies in englishoks/11737| Barks and Purrs (date?)
1953
Nikolai Evreinov
"Merry Death" Pantomime 1915 translated by C.E.Bechhofer (d. 1949)
1953
Eugene O'Neill
[2]
ILE
Hairy Ape
Anna Christie
The First Man
Anthology
The Straw
Iceman Cometh 1946
Moon for Misbegotten 1952
without end 1934
All god's chillun got wings 1924
Desrire under elms 1925
Great God Brown (1926)
1952
Elizabeth Robins
various titles
1952
John Hay Beith alias Ian Hay
novels
Crimson Cocoanut (1913) "A Present from Margate" (1933) (with A E W Mason d. 1948) "Little Ladyship" (1939) "Blank Cartridge:Farce"(1928) "Quicker to telephone:1actcomedy"(1933)
1952
Philip G. Epstein screenwriter
Casablanca (1942)
filmography "The Mad Miss Manton"
1952
Elizabeth MacKintosh AKA Josephine Tey "Laughing woman" (1932)
"Richard of Bordeaux" (1933)
The Privateer (novel 1952)
1951
Sinclair Lewis
novels
novels "Jayhawker" (1935)
1951
Graham Moffat Hit Musical "Bunty pulls the strings" (1910) no copies in australia
1951
Charles Goddard
Ghostbreaker (1914)
Perils of Pauline (1914)
five plays 1912-1916
1951
Margaret Mayo
novels
1951
Monckton Hoffe Irish. "Many waters", "Little Damsel", "Christilinda"
1951
Vsevolod Vishnevsky "Optimistic Tragedy" (1936 play, 1963 film) no copies in english
1951
James Bridie "switchback, pardonerstale,sunlightsonata" 1930 Constable Pub.
1951
Ivor Novello Twenty Musicals
biography
1950
George Bernard Shaw
many titles
1950
Eleanor Gates
novels married to
Richard Walton Tully (died 1945) also a playwright.
1950
Jane Cowl no copies
1950
Maude Fulton "Cinderella of the storm" and "Sonny" free view fulltext online at TROVE Australian Library
1950
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Lamp and The bell
Ario de Capo
Two slatterns and a king (1922)
1949
Sem Benelli Italian "The jest (1919) New York success no copies in english
1949
Maurice Maeterlinck
[3]
1949
Phillip Barry
The Animal Kingdom (1932)
1949
George Shiels forty five plays
1949
Rex Beach novels adapted for film
novels eight works on TROVE
1949
William Thomas Walsh in verse
1948
William Price Drury
Privy Council (1906)
Bearers of the burden (1904)
Peradventures of Private Paget
1948
Susan Glaspell
Collected works
1948
Antonin Artaud "Jet of blood" French language - no copies in English.
1948
Conal Holmes O'Connell O'Riordan
The story of Adam and marriage (1922)
enough rope (1914)
Adam of Dublin (1920)
Adam and Caroline (1921)
1948
Montague Summers "William Henry" (1938), "Edward II" (1940) no copies
1866-1948
Walford Graham Robertson "Archibald:farcefor10girls"(1919)SamFrench
1947
Gregorio Martínez Sierra Spanish language
1948
Alexander M. Thompson most musicals "The rebel maid" (1921) 114 shows London
1946
Herbert Swears
Dog Days (1915)
Cupboard love: A costume comedy (1922)
The unknown Quantity (1916)
The mere man (1910)
Grannies Juliet (1911)
A tight corner
1946 Mary Burill (1881-1946)
"They that sit in darkness" (1919)
1946
Edward Sheldon
Romance (1910)
The nigger (1910)
Garden of Paradise (1915)
1946
Gerhart Hauptmann German Language - translations by LUDWIG LEWISOHN (died 1956)
1946
Harley Granville-Barker
"Marrying of Anne Leete" (1909)
"Voysey Inheritance" (1909)
"Waste: A tragedy" (1909)
1946
Mary P. Burrill african american
They sit in darkness (1919)
1946
Walter J. Turner AUSTRALIAN
The man who ate the popomack full length about forbidden fruit.
1946
John Colton (screenwriter) Gay
Shanghai gesture (?1922) novel adapted to broadway 1926
1946
T. P. Kailasam Thyagaraja Paramasiva Kailasam - English language Indian Author
[4]
1946
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
Clansmen: An historical romance of the Klu Klux Klan (1905)
1946
Bellary Raghava
1946
Thompson, Edward John
Atonement:A play of modern India (1924)
1946
Harry Tighe
1945
Maurice Baring
1945
Bruno Frank [
http://archive.org/details/onefardaughter012582mbp%7C One Fair Daughter (novel 1943) "play Twelve Thousand" (1927) comic play "Storm Over Patsy" (1930)
1945
Edward Locke
1945
Hatcher Hughes
1945
Garrett Fort
1874-1945
Edward Knoblock "A charity committee:comedy1actfor nine women" (1939)
1944
Louis N. Parker
1944
Jean Giraudoux French Language
1944
Thomas Sturge Moore
[5]
1944
Walter C. Hackett
1944
Louis N. Parker
1944
George Ade
[6]
1858-1944
Ethel Smyth "Entente cordiale:Postwar comedy in one act" (1925)
List of playwrights by date of death (1923-1943)
See United Kingdom and European copyright expiry conditions
"Warming pan:1actcomedy"(1929)SFrench*1943
Laurence Binyon Seven plays
List of playwrights by date of death (1823-1923)
See United States Patent office for copyright registrations, renewals and expiry
Playwrights pending inclusion on lists
Lionel Shave (1888-1954)
Mary Foott (1846–1918)
William Thomas Moncrieff (1794-1857)
Ralph Delaney "A Native Drama" AUSTRALIAN
[49]
William Leman Rede 1802-1847 AUSTRALIAN
Henry Melville AUSTRALIAN Bushrangers or Norwood Vale 1834 in Fotheringham, Richard. Australian Plays for the Colonial Stage. UQP
James R McLaughlin
Richard Henry Horne AUSTRALIAN The south sea sisters
William Mower Achurst AUSTRALIAN The house that Jack built 1869 (later lampooned by anonymous in 1871)
Walter H Cooper AUSTRALIAN Hazard or Pearce Dynetons crime
Helen Lucy Benbow AUSTRALIAN for 60,000 pounds
Thomas Walker AUSTRALIAN For the term of his natural life
Arnold Denham - Kely Gang AUSTRALIAN
pending 1951
Leo Birinski Ukrainina American - No copies in english?
pending 1950
Erle Cox science fiction work "Out of the Silence" was dramatised by ? 1936 and also in cartoon form by anonymous.
pending 1940
Helen de Guerry Simpson
novels dramatised for radio. Earliest known Aboriginal idyll.
pending 1934
Carlton Dawe seventy novels, some adapted for film
on archive
pending 1932
Fergus Hume prolific novels, no copies of plays?
pending 1905
Guy Boothby "The Rickshaw: A farce in two acts" no copies?
pending (?date) Marion Craig Wentworth
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pending (?date) Adelaide Matthews with Martha Stanley "Where Innocense is bliss" light comedy (1929)
Marion Davies
Leroy Arnold
Mark Ambient
Marion Short
Alphabetical list (playwrights died 1855-1955)
Annotated by year of death
Ade, George 1944
Afford, Malcolm 1954
Afinogenov, Alexander 1941
Anderson, Arthur 1942
Andreyev, Leonid 1919
Arlt, Roberto
Arniches, Carlos 1943
Artaud, Antonin 1948
Arthur, Joseph 1906
Asche, Oscar 1936
Bacon, Frank 1922
Baker, George Melville 1890
Balderston, John L. 1954
Bangs, John Kendrick 1922
Barrie, James Murray 1937
Barry, Phillip 1949
Baring, Maurice 1945
Beach, Rex 1949
Beith, John Hay 1952
Belasco, David 1930
Bennett, Arnold 1931
Benelli, Sam 1949
Besier, Rudolf 1942
Binyon, Laurence 1943
Birinski, Leo 1951
Bjørnson, Bjørnstjerne 1910
Black, Stephen 1931
Brown, Abbie Farwell 1927
Bulgakov, Mikhail 1940
Burnard, Francis Cowley 1917
Burrill, Mary P. 1946
Byron, Henry James 1884
Calderon, George 1915
Caine, Sir Hall 1931
Čapek, Karel 1938
Chambers, Charles Haddon 1925
Chekov, Anton 1904
Collette 1953
Collison, Wilson 1941
Colton, John 1946
Cowl, Jane 1950
Davis, Richard Harding 1916
de Lorde, André 1942
Dickens, Charles 1880
Dixon, Thomas, Jr. 1946
Dowson, Ernest 1900
Drinkwater, John 1937
Drury, William Price 1948
Du Maurier, Guy 1915
Duprez, Fred 1938
Epstein, Philip G. 1952
Esson, Louis 1943
Ewing, Juliana Horatia 1885
Feydeau, Georges 1921
Fitch, Clyde 1909
Flecker, James Elroy 1915
Fort, Garrett 1945
Frank, Bruno 1945
Fulton, Maude 1950
Gadkari, Ram Ganesh 1919
Galsworthy, John 1933
Gates, Eleanor 1950
Gilbert, W. S. 1911
Giraudoux, Jean 1944
Glaspell, Susan 1948
Glass, Montague 1934
Goddard, Charles 1951
Gorky, Maxim 1936
Granville-Barker, Harley 1946
Gregory, Lady Augusta 1933
Hackett, Walter C. 1944
Hasler, Karel 1941
Hazelton, George Cochrane 1921
Hauptmann, Gerhart 1946
Hawtrey, Charles 1923
Herne, James A.1901
Hoffe, Monckton 1951
Hopwood, Avery 1928
Howard, Sidney Coe 1939
Howells, William Dean 1920
Hughes, Hatcher 1945
Hunyady, Sándor 1942
Ibsen, Henrik 1906
Jackson, Frederick 1953
James, Henry 1916
Jones Henry Arthur 1929
Kailasam, T. P. 1946
Klein, Charles 1919
Lavedan, Henri 1940
Law, Arthur 1913
Le Pera, Alfredo 1935
Lewis, Sinclair 1951
Locke, Edward 1945
Lonsdale, Frederick 1954
Lorca, Federico García 1936
Magnus, Julian 1905
Mack, Willard 1934
MacSwiney, Terence 1920
Maeterlinck, Maurice 1949
Mayo, Margaret 1951
Mayakovsky, Vladimir 1930
McKinnel, Norman 1932
Millay, Edna St. Vincent 1950
Moffat, Graham 1951
Moore, Thomas Sturge 1944
Morton, Michael 1931
Mühsam, Erich 1934
Manners, J. Hartley 1928
Mizner, Wilson 1933
Oliphant, Ernest Henry Clark 1936
O'Riordan, Conal Holmes O'Connell 1948
O'Neill, Eugene 1953
Parker, Louis N. 1944
Pirandello, Luigi 1936
Pinero, Arthur Wing 1934
Prasad, Jaishankar 1937
Przybyszewska, Stanisława 1935
Raghava, Bellary 1946
Rostand, Edmond 1918
Robins, Elizabeth 1952
Rudd, Steele 1935
Sardou, Victorien 1907
Schnitzler, Arthur 1931
Shaw, George Bernard 1950
Shawqi, Ahmed 1932
Sheldon, Edward 1946
Shiels, George 1949
Sierra, Gregorio Martínez 1947
Steell, Willis 1942
Strindberg, August 1912
Sudermann, Hermann 1928
Summers, Montague 1948
Sutro, Alfred 1933
Swears, Herbert 1946
Swinburne, Algernon Charles1909
Synge, John Millington 1905
Thomas, Augustus 1934
Toller, Ernst 1939
Turner, Walter J. 1946
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 1892
Thomas, Brandon1918
Thompson, Alexander. M 1948
Turgenev, Ivan 1885
Von Horváth, Ödön 1938
Walsh, William Thomas 1949
Walter, Eugene 1941
Webster, Jean 1916
Wedekind, Frank 1918
Willard, John 1942
Wilson, Harry Leon 1939
Wilde, Percival 1953
Yeats, W. B. 1939
Zangwill, Israel 1926
Zola, Emile 1902
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