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Statistics About The Most Famous Playwrights
The statistics about the most famous playwrights show variations in their number of works, popularity, and impact on theater history.
In this post, we explore intriguing statistics about some of the most famous playwrights in history and their remarkable contributions to the world of theatre. From the prolific works of Shakespeare to the groundbreaking plays of contemporary playwrights, the numbers shed light on the enduring impact of these literary giants on the stage.
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"William Shakespeare, the most famous playwright, has had his plays performed more times than any other playwright, with over 400,000 productions and adaptations of his works worldwide."
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"Shakespeare's Hamlet has been translated into every major language and is performed more often than any other play."
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"Henrik Ibsen is credited with the having one of the largest creative outputs among dramatists, with 26 plays."
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"Molière (stage name of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), a French playwright, wrote 33 plays over a career of 14 years."
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"Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage and Her Children", has been performed by around 50 professional theatre companies between 2001 and 2010."
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"Tennessee Williams has won two Pulitzer Prizes for Drama, with his most famous play, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” having over 855 performances in its initial Broadway run."
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"George Bernard Shaw’s play 'Pygmalion' has been adapted countless times - the most famous being the musical 'My Fair Lady'."
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"Arthur Miller’s "Death of a Salesman" won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1949 and has been revived on Broadway four times to date."
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"Sophocles, the ancient Greek playwright, wrote 123 plays during his life, but only 7 have survived to the current era."
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"Euripides, another ancient Greek playwright, had at least 90 plays to his credit, with 18 surviving till today."
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"Neil Simon, the American playwright, is the only person in the history to have four Broadway productions running simultaneously."
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"Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot" is regarded as one of the most important plays of the 20th century, having been performed in countless languages and countries."
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"Lorraine Hansberry was the first African-American woman to have a play performed on Broadway, her most famous work is "A Raisin in the Sun"."
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"David Mamet won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1984 for his play "Glengarry Glen Ross" – which has since been produced countless times on Broadway and throughout the world."
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"About 60% of Tom Stoppard's plays have had more than one production on Broadway."
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"Harold Pinter’s play "The Birthday Party", after a disastrous initial run of only eight performances in 1958, has been resurrected and performed numerous times worldwide."
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"Federico Garcia Lorca, the Spanish playwright, wrote about 13 plays in his truncated life, which are considered to be among the best plays in Spanish literature."
Jannik Lindner
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