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  • The four best known Irish playwrights
  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan: (1751 – 1816) an Irish playwright and poet and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. . He is known for his plays The Rivals and The School for Scandal.
  • Oliver Goldsmith: (1730 – 1774) an Anglo-Irish novelist, playwright and poet, who is best known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield (1766), his pastoral poem The Deserted Village (1770), and his play She Stoops to Conquer (1771).
  • William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) an Irish poet and playwright and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.
  • Edmund John Millington Synge: (1871–1909) an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre.
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