Contemporary
- Adjmi, David
- Akhtar, Ayad
- Albee, Edward
- Auburn, David
- Ayckbourn, Alan
- Baitz, Jon Robin
- Baker, Annie
- Blessing, Lee
- Bond, Edward
- Butterworth, Jez
- Churchill, Caryl
- Corthron, Kia
- Dietz, Steven
- Drury, Jackie Sibblies
- Durang, Christopher
- Edson, Margaret
- Eno, Will
- Ensler, Eve
- Fo, Dario
- Foreman, Richard
- Fornés, María Irene
- Frayn, Michael
- Friel, Brian
- Fugard, Athol
- Gilman, Rebecca
- Greenberg, Richard
- Guare, John
- Guirgis, Stephen Adly
- Hare, David
- Harris, Jeremy
- Herzog, Amy
- Hwang, David Henry
- Ives, David
- Joseph, Rajiv
- Karam, Stephen
- Kaufman, Moisés
- Kennedy, Adrienne
- Kushner, Tony
- LaBute, Neil
- Letts, Tracy
- Lindsay-Abaire, David
- Lonergan, Kenneth
- Ludwig, Ken
- Majok, Martyna
- Mamet, David
- Marber, Patrick
- Margulies, Donald
- McDonagh, Martin
- McNally, Terrence
- McPherson, Conor
- Nichols, Peter
- Norman, Marsha
- Norris, Bruce
- Nottage, Lynn
- Parks, Suzan-Lori
- Pinter, Harold
- Pomerance, Bernard
- Rabe, David
- Rapp, Adam
- Ruhl, Sarah
- Shaffer, Peter
- Shanley, John Patrick
- Shawn, Wallace
- Shepard, Sam
- Sherman, Martin
- Silver, Nicky
- Simon, Neil
- Smith, Anna Deavere
- Stoppard, Tom
- Suh, Lloyd
- Uhry, Alfred
- Vogel, Paula
- Wasserstein, Wendy
- Wellman, Mac
- Wilson, August
- Wilson, Lanford
- Wright, Doug
- Zacarías, Karen
Early Modern
- Büchner, Georg
- Chekhov, Anton
- Gogol, Nikolai
- Gorky, Maxim
- Ibsen, Henrik
- O’Casey, Seán
- Rice, Elmer
- Shaw, George Bernard
- Strindberg, August
- Synge, J. M.
- Wedekind, Frank
Elizabethan/Jacobean
Greek/Roman/Medieval
Mid 20th Century
- Anderson, Maxwell
- Beckett, Samuel
- Bolt, Robert
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Coward, Noël
- Genet, Jean
- Gibson, William
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Hellman, Lillian
- Inge, William
- Ionesco, Eugène
- Lawrence, Jerome and Lee, Robert E.
- Lorca, Fredrico Garcia
- Miller, Arthur
- O'Neill, Eugene
- Odets, Clifford
- Osborne, John
- Pirandello, Luigi
- Priestley, J. B.
- Sartre, Jean Paul
- Weiss, Peter
- Wilder, Thornton
- Williams, Tennessee
Play Anthologies
- Bedford Introduction to Drama
- Norton Anthology of Drama
- One Act: Eleven Short Plays of the Modern Theatre
- Plays in One Act
- Take Ten: Ten Minute Plays
- Theater of the Avant-Garde
