Naturalism & Realism (1870s – present)
- August Strindberg – The Father, Miss Julie
- Émile Zola – Thérèse Raquin
- Oscar Méténier – Meat-ticket, Little Bugger, Lui!
- Gerhart Hauptmann – The Weavers, The Rats, The Beaver Coat
- Henrik Ibsen – A Doll’s House, The Wild Duck, Enemy of the People, The Master Builder, Hedda Gabler, Rosmersholm, Ghosts
- John Galsworthy – Justice, The First and the Last, The Skin Game
- Harley Granville-Barker – The Voysey Inheritance, Waste
- Arthur Wing Pinero – The Second Mrs Tanqueray, The Notorious Mrs Ebbsmith
- G. Bernard Shaw – Pygmalion, Mrs Warren’s Profession, Heartbreak House, Arms and the Man, Man and Superman, Major Barbara
- Anton Chekhov – The Seagull, Three Sisters, Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard
- Elizabeth Robins – Votes for Women!
- Maxim Gorky – The Lower Depths
- Leo Tolstoi – Power of Darkness, The Fruits of Enlightenment, The Living Corpse