Editing 1917 in literature (section)

===Drama===
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*[[Leonid Andreyev]] – ''The Life of Man''
*[[Guillaume Apollinaire]] – ''[[The Breasts of Tiresias]]'' (''Les mamelles de Tirésias'', written 1903, first performed)
*[[Bruce Bairnsfather]] and Arthur Elliot – ''[[The Better 'Ole]]''
*[[J. M. Barrie]] – ''[[Dear Brutus]]''
*[[Dorothy Brandon]] – ''[[Wild Heather (play)|Wild Heather]]''
*[[Ferdinand Bruckner]] – ''Der Herr in den Nebeln''
*[[Hall Caine]] – ''The Woman Thou Gavest Me''
*[[Gilbert Cannan]] – ''Everybody's Husband''
*[[Jean Cocteau]] – ''[[Parade (ballet)|Parade]]''
*[[John Drinkwater (playwright)|John Drinkwater]] – ''X = 0: A Night of the Trojan War''
*[[John Galsworthy]] – ''[[Justice (play)|Justice]]''
*[[Mary P. Hamlin]] and [[George Arliss]] – ''[[Hamilton (play)|Hamilton]]''
*[[Georg Kaiser]]
**''The Burghers of Calais'' (''Die Bürger von Calais'', written 1913, first performed)
**''The Coral (Die Koralle)''
**''[[From Morning to Midnight]]'' (''Von Morgens bis Mitternachts'', written 1912, first performed)
*[[Somerset Maugham]] – ''[[Our Betters (play)|Our Betters]]''
*[[A. A. Milne]] – ''[[Wurzel-Flummery]]''
*[[Luigi Pirandello]] – ''[[Right You Are (if you think so)]]''
*[[Gertrude Stein]] – ''An Exercise in Analysis'' 
*[[Ridgely Torrence]] – ''Three Plays for a Negro Theater''
*[[Brita von Horn]] – ''[[:nl:Kring drottningen|Kring drottningen]]''
*[[Jesse Lynch Williams]] – ''[[Why Marry?]]''</onlyinclude>