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I'm not sure how far back you want to go in defining "olden days".

If you're going back to the ancient era, then it was probably Euripedes, though Sophocles and Aeschylus stilll shine on their own merits.

If you're going back to the last middle of the last millenium, then it's Shakespeare hands down.

But if you're just talking the 19th and 20th centuries, you're in the period of O'Neill, Arthur Miller, Henrick Ibsen, Samuel Beckett, et al.

Personally, if you're counting the last 40-60 years as "olden days" then my vote would be split between Arthur Miller and Neil Simon.

2006-07-01 16:23:13 · answer #1 · answered by yellow_jellybeans_rock 6 · 0 0

Many famous plays still exist from the ancient Greeks, by Aristophanes (Birds, Wasps, Lysistrata), Sophocles (Antigone, Oedipus), Euripides (Alcestis, Medea, Electra), among others. Some exist from the Romans, and the middel ages. Still more come from the Renaissance: Johnson (Volpone), Moliere(Tartuffe), but the probable answer to your question is Shakespeare: Hamlet is probably the No. 1 tragedy, Midsummer Night's Dream, could be no. 1 comedy.

2006-07-01 17:49:09 · answer #2 · answered by aboukir200 5 · 0 0

Eugene ONiel.. Moon For The Misbegotten, Long Day's Journey Into Night, Emperor Jones, Anna Christie and many more.
A Nobel Prize winner and a master of portraying the human soul..

2006-07-01 15:44:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Definitely Shakespeare, but there are a lot of others who have remained famous for a long time, too. It depends on what you mean by "the olden days."

2006-07-01 15:54:53 · answer #4 · answered by Fabala 1 · 0 0

Shakespeare and the word is famous not famuse.

Regardless of other answers you may get. Shakespeare is the most famous, his plays have been performed more times than any others and have been translated into the most languages.

People who have never heard of Ibsen or Sophocles or anybody else mentioned will have heard of Shakespeare if they know of any playwright at all.

2006-07-01 15:39:51 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Definitely Shakespeare.

2006-07-01 15:38:04 · answer #6 · answered by stoner9997 1 · 0 0

Greek dramatist Sophocles

Oedipus Rex and
Antigone were written BC

2006-07-01 15:40:46 · answer #7 · answered by Dulcinea 5 · 0 0

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2016-12-08 14:49:46 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0 0

There are many famous play writers. My favorite is Henrik Ibsen, who wrote "A Doll's House".

2006-07-01 15:37:47 · answer #9 · answered by sunshinegrover 3 · 0 0

I dunno

2006-07-08 09:08:04 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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