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Recommend me some good playwrights /lit/.
Any country, preferably pre-modernist.
In my reading list already:
Shakespeare
Ibsen
Marlowe
Kyd
Jonson
De Assis
Cankar
Strindberg

>> No.2945555

Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Zeami Motokiyo
Wang Shifu
Tang Xianzu
Guan Hanqing

>> No.2945556

Brecht

>> No.2945568

Karel Čapek
Ferenc Molnár
Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Sławomir Mrożek
Mikhail Bulgakov

>> No.2945570

>>2945555
thanks
>>2945556
thanks, i was meaning to read him too but i forgot to take note of it!

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>>2945568

>> No.2945583

Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
Calderón de la Barca
Lope de Vega

>> No.2945586

Go back to the Greeks. If you enjoy drama, there's no excuse for not having read at least some Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. Any play whose name you recognize is probably a good starting point, but I particularly like Medea.

There's also no Irishmen on your list, which is a grave injustice. Shaw and Wilde (The Importance of Being Ernest is one of the funniest things ever written) aren't even modernists, so you don't have that as an excuse. Beckett is, but any fan of drama should at least be familiar with Waiting for Godot.

>> No.2945589

>>2945586
you realize he posted the thread with a picture of beckett, right

>> No.2945594

>>2945583
Lope de Vega is shite compared to Calderón.

>> No.2945595

>>2945589
No, I did not realize that. I am a moron who can't apparently read filenames.

>> No.2945600

>>2945583
gracias
>>2945586
shit, i had been meaning to read sophocles, i just forgot to mention it in the op. thanks for the other recs though. I've read quite a bit of Beckett already, no Godot though. There was a time when his minimalist style prose resonated so well with me that I could read it for very long periods, now I find it kinda unengaging, I'll try to read more of him sometime though.

>> No.2945607

>>2945600
fuck i really need to stop saying though

>> No.2945618

>>2945607
It's okay though

>> No.2945627

Hey OP, check out Bohemian Lights by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán.

>> No.2945638

>>2945594
“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

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>> No.2945695

Chekhov and Aleksey K. Tolstoy.