List of modern playwrights deceased before 1 Jan 1955, probably copyright expired per Australian Copyright Council INFORMATION SHEET G023 "Duration of copyright".

Contents 1 1954 2 1953 3 1950 4 1949 5 1948 6 1946 7 1945 8 1944 9 1939 10 1937 11 1936 12 1935 13 1934 14 also see 15 Comments

1954Edit

Fred Lonsdale.

• 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'Neill

• 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 Shaw works -tabled

• Candida (play)[2]

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 Glaspell

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

1946Edit

Gerhart Hauptmann

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

• The Conflagration link

Harley Granville-Barker

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

1945Edit

Bruno Frank

• Storm in a teacup

Georg Kaiser

• A Gardener of Toulouse

1944Edit

George Ade

1939Edit

Sidney Coe Howard

• They knew what they wanted

1937Edit

J. M. Barrie

• 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 Gorky

• The lower depths
• Mother full text

1935Edit

Steele Rudd

• Our New Selection (1903)

1934Edit

Arthur Wing Pinero

• The Magistrate[3]
• 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

also seeEdit

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