Authors

Playwrights and writers whose works are on Scriptaoke

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W. B. Yeats
1865–1939
1 work
W. S. Gilbert
1836–1911
1 work

British · 1836–1911

W. S. Gilbert

W. S. Gilbert was the librettist half of the Gilbert and Sullivan partnership whose comic operas — H.M.S. Pinafore (1878), The Pirates of Penzance (1879), The Mikado (1885), and nine others — remain the most frequently performed operettas in the English-speaking world. Gilbert's libretti are models of comic verse: intricate, witty, and metrically dexterous. He was knighted in 1907. He died at seventy-four attempting to rescue a woman from drowning in his garden lake.

Wallace Thurman
1902–1934
1 work
Washington Irving
1783–1859
1 work
Wilhelm Hauff
1802–1827
3 works
Wilhelm Hey
1789–1854
1 work
Willa Cather
1873–1947
1 work
William Blake
1757–1827
1 work
William Carlos Williams
1883–1963
1 work
William Congreve
1670–1729
2 works
William Shakespeare
43 works
William Wells Brown
1814–1884
1 work