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Samuel Beckett
Key works: 'Waiting for Godot', 'Endgame', 'Krapp’s Last Tape'. Themes: existentialism, absurdism, the human condition.
George Bernard Shaw
Key works: 'Pygmalion', 'Saint Joan', 'Man and Superman'. Themes: social criticism, satirical comedy, gender roles.
W.B. Yeats
Key works: 'Cathleen ni Houlihan', 'The Countess Cathleen', 'The Tower'. Themes: Irish mythology, nationalism, spiritualism.
Marina Carr
Key works: 'By the Bog of Cats', 'Portia Coughlan', 'On Raftery’s Hill'. Themes: feminism, Irish rural life, mythological undertones.
Martin McDonagh
Key works: 'The Beauty Queen of Leenane', 'The Cripple of Inishmaan', 'The Pillowman'. Themes: dark humor, isolation, violence and cruelty.
Brian Friel
Key works: 'Translations', 'Dancing at Lughnasa', 'Faith Healer'. Themes: language and communication, memory, Ireland's political and cultural history.
Enda Walsh
Key works: 'Disco Pigs', 'The Walworth Farce', 'Ballyturk'. Themes: existential angst, identity, confinement and escape.
Sean O'Casey
Key works: 'Juno and the Paycock', 'The Plough and the Stars', 'The Shadow of a Gunman'. Themes: Irish working-class life, nationalism, civil war.
John Millington Synge
Key works: 'The Playboy of the Western World', 'Riders to the Sea', 'Deirdre of the Sorrows'. Themes: rural Irish life, the individual versus community, myth versus reality.
Oscar Wilde
Key works: 'The Importance of Being Earnest', 'An Ideal Husband', 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. Themes: satirical wit, social hypocrisy, aestheticism.
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