| 剧作家 | jù zuò jiā | playwright |  |
| 戏剧家 | xì jù jiā | dramatist / playwright | |
| 莎士比亚 | Shā shì bǐ yà | Shakespeare (name) / William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright | |
| 夏衍 | Xià Yǎn | Xia Yan (1900-1995), Chinese writer, playwright, socialist critic and movie pioneer | |
| 莫里哀 | Mò lǐ āi | Molière (1622-1673), French playwright and actor, master of comedy | |
| 肖伯纳 | Xiāo Bó nà | Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Irish-born British playwright | |
| 阿里斯托芬 | A1 lǐ sī tuō fēn | Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright | |
| 奥斯特洛夫斯基 | Aò sī tè luò fū sī jī | Nikolai Ostrovsky (1904-1936), Soviet socialist realist writer / Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886), Russian playwright | |
| 李直夫 | Lǐ Zhí fū | Li Zhifu (c. 14th century), Yuan dynasty playwright in the 雜劇|杂剧[za2 ju4] style | |
| 索福克里斯 | Suǒ fú kè lǐ sī | Sophocles (496-406 BC), Greek playwright | |
| 阿里斯托芳 | A1 lǐ sī tuō fāng | Aristophanes (c. 448-380 BC), Greek comic playwright | |
| 威廉・莎士比亚 | Wēi lián · Shā shì bǐ yà | William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright | |
| 米格尔・德・塞万提斯・萨维德拉 | Mǐ gé ěr · dé · Sāi wàn tí sī · Sà wéi dé lā | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂・吉河德[Tang2 · / Ji2 he2 de2] | |
| 米格尔·德·塞万提斯·萨维德拉 | Mǐ gé ěr · dé · Sāi wàn tí sī · Sà wéi dé lā | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616), Spanish novelist, poet and playwright, author of Don Quixote 堂吉訶德|堂吉诃德[Tang2 ji2 he1 de2] | |
| 威廉·莎士比亚 | Wēi lián · Shā shì bǐ yà | William Shakespeare (1564-1616), poet and playwright | |
