Authors

Playwrights and writers whose works are on Scriptaoke

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J. M. Barrie
1860–1937
2 works
J. M. Synge
1871–1909
4 works

Irish · 1871–1909

J. M. Synge

J. M. Synge was an Irish playwright whose short career produced some of the most distinctive plays in the English language, including Riders to the Sea (1904), The Well of the Saints (1905), and The Playboy of the Western World (1907). The Playboy's premiere at the Abbey Theatre caused riots (the 'Playboy riots') because of its allegedly disrespectful portrayal of Irish womanhood. Synge spent years in the Aran Islands absorbing the Irish-inflected English of the islanders, and his dramatic language — poetic, rhythmic, and distinctly Irish — had no precedent.

Jack London
1876–1916
1 work
Jacques Perk
1859–1881
1 work
James Branch Cabell
1879–1958
1 work
James Joyce
1882–1941
1 work
János Erdélyi
1814–1868
1 work
Jean de La Fontaine
1621–1695
6 works
Jean Racine
1639–1699
1 work
Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian
1755–1794
1 work
Johan Ludvig Runeberg
1804–1877
3 works
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1749–1832
6 works
Johanna Spyri
1827–1901
1 work
John Arbuthnot
1667–1735
1 work
John Galsworthy
1867–1933
6 works
John Gay
1685–1732
1 work
John Gower
1408
1 work
John McCrae
1872–1918
1 work
John Milton
1608–1674
4 works
John Ruskin
1819–1900
1 work
John Vanbrugh
1664–1726
2 works
John Webster
1 work
José Hernández
1834–1886
2 works
José Martí
1853–1895
1 work
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Josef Cohen (ed.)
1 work
Joseph Rodman Drake
1795–1820
1 work
Joyce Kilmer
1886–1918
2 works
Juan Ramón Jiménez
1881–1958
1 work
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Juan Ruiz (Arcipreste de Hita)
1 work
Juhani Aho
1861–1921
2 works
Jules Renard
1864–1910
1 work