List of modern playwrights deceased before 1 Jan 1955 per Australian Copyright Council

Contents 1 1954 1.1 Fred Lonsdale. 2 1953 2.1 Eugene O'Neill 3 1950 3.1 George Bernard Shaw 4 1949 5 1948 5.1 Susan Glaspell 6 1946 6.1 Gerhart Hauptmann 6.2 Harley Granville-Barker 7 1945 7.1 Bruno Frank 7.2 Georg Kaiser 8 1944 8.1 George Ade 9 1939 9.1 Sidney Coe Howard 10 1937 10.1 J. M. Barrie 11 1936 11.1 Maxim Gorky 12 1935 12.1 Steele Rudd 13 1934 13.1 Arthur Wing Pinero 14 1933 14.1 John Galsworthy 14.2 Lady Augusta Gregory 15 1931 15.1 Sir Hall Caine 16 1905 16.1 Julian Magnus 17 also see 18 Reviews 18.1 Tumped Suit (1898) by Julian magnus (died 1905)

1954Edit

Fred Lonsdale.Edit

• On Approval (play) full length comedy, was made into a film, now in archive only[1]
• Aren't We All? (1923) full text
• Spring Cleaning (1925)
• The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1925)
• Canaries Sometimes Sing (1929)
• The Way Things Go 1949,*Let them eat cake

and assorted musicals

1953Edit

Eugene O'NeillEdit

• Anna Christiefull text
• The First Man full text
• The Hairy Apefull text
• Ilefull text
• The straw full text
• Strange interlude sydney 2011 performance

1950Edit

George Bernard ShawEdit

table of works

• Candida (play) full text
• The apple cart full text
• Pygmalionfull text
• Arms & the man full text
• Mrs Warren's Profession

full text

• Man & Superman full text
• Millionairess full text

1949Edit

• Maurice Maeterlinck

The Blue Bird full text for children collected works part 1 collected works part 2

• Philip Barry

Animal Kingdom. Philadelphia story.

1948Edit

Antonin Artaud

• Jet of Blood

Susan GlaspellEdit

• Trifles full text one act
• Trifles, The Outside, The Verge, Inheritors full text

1946Edit

Gerhart HauptmannEdit

• Before Dawn link
• The weavers link
• The Beaver Coat link

• The Conflagration link

Harley Granville-BarkerEdit

• The Marrying of Ann Leete link
• The Voysey Inheritance link
• Waste link
• Harlequinade experimenatl

1945Edit

Bruno FrankEdit

• Storm in a teacup

Georg KaiserEdit

• A Gardener of Toulouse

1944Edit

George AdeEdit

1939Edit

Sidney Coe HowardEdit

• They knew what they wanted

W B Yeats multiple titles

1937Edit

J. M. BarrieEdit

• Quality Streetfull text
• Peter Pan full text
• What every woman knows full text
• The twelve pound look full text
• Dear Brutus full text
• Alice sit by the fire full text

1936Edit

Maxim GorkyEdit

• The lower depths
• Mother full text

1935Edit

Steele RuddEdit

• Our New Selection (1903)

1934Edit

Arthur Wing PineroEdit

• The Magistrate[2]
• The Second Mrs Tanqueray
• Trelawny of the 'Wells'
• The Schoolmistress (1866)
• Dandy Dick (1887)
• The Cabinet Minister (1890) full text
• The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith| The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith (1895) link
• The Gay Lord Quex (1899) link
• The big drum full text
• The squire link
• Mind the paint, girl link

1933Edit

John GalsworthyEdit

collected works

Lady Augusta GregoryEdit

1931Edit

Sir Hall CaineEdit

Collected works

1905Edit

Julian MagnusEdit

• Trumped suit (one act) (1898) [text] [trumped suit review]

also seeEdit

Plays under creative commons license

creative commons student product

one act list

Older plays (eg. Elizabethan and greeks)

ReviewsEdit

Tumped Suit (1898) by Julian magnus (died 1905)Edit

Perfect for amateur one act. three female, two male, box set (drawing room) situation comedy in which a tragically shy father and suitor complete a dance of avoidance around a proposal to the daughter Cecila, with disbelief from her younger sister and an entirely unsitable rival. A solid farce.

Cabinet minister by Arthur Wing Pinero (d. 1934)

8 Male 9 female . Full length farce in four acts. Many pre-1955 plays do not translate well into a modern setting, yet I hold this to be an exception. Only under certain circumstances can you place courtly manners, class consciousness and parental matrimonial guidance. One finds this appropriate in a context of wealth and Power . This play is about the families of a cabinet minister and a Highland laird. Both the cabinet ministers children defy him in their choice of suitor and in both cases Pinero demonstrates his famous declaration that women engineer proposals in which men are passively willing. The minister is so powerful and wealthy that the class distinction between his wife and her dressmaker would not be out of place today. My favourite line is directed by the ministers wife to a shady dealer "If you lent a woman your arm, it would be at a premium". There are many sub-plots including the ministers two siblings wriggling out of their mother's best intentions to wed them well. Thankfully there are no chaperones. The minister is desperately trying to stave the wolves from his door, while his wife is lending to support her matrimonial plays before his political career implodes. There is a cautionery fable around insider trading also played out. Two sets (Drawing rooms) The script mentions two complete sets of ludicrously overdone national dress, but a substitute for highland trews could be written in.

Aren't we all (1923) by Frederick Lonsdale (d 1954)

8 male 4 female (5 males could be used with doubling). Lonsdale liberated an aristocratic woman in his persoanl life and 'exposure of British hypocrisy' is a continuing theme in his plays. There are many witty lines in Aren't we all, but humor is secondary to moral exploration. An upstairs view of an aristocratic house in which fidelity of two couples is doubted and rescued from the brink. Some may not like the gender based double standard, but there is comic relief from unwelcome house guests, a happy ending and one character is australian.