Editing List of playwrights (section)

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*[[Gaston de Caillavet]] (1869–1915, France)
*[[Hall Caine]] (1853–1931, England)
*[[Pedro Calderón de la Barca]] (1600–1681, Spain)
*[[Sheila Callaghan]] (born 1973, United States)
*[[Callias (comic poet)|Callias]] (5th century BCE, Ancient Greece)
*[[Richard Cameron (writer)|Richard Cameron]] (born 1948, England)
*[[Marc Camoletti (playwright)|Marc Camoletti]] (1923–2003, France)
*[[Bartley Campbell]] (1843–1888, United States)
*[[David Campton]] (1924–2006, England)
*[[Albert Camus]] (1913–1961, France)
*[[Hall Caine]] (1853–1931, Isle of Man)
*[[Elias Canetti]] (1905–1994, Bulgaria/England) in German
*[[José de Cañizares]] (1676–1750, Spain)
*[[Denis Cannan]] (1919–2011, England)
*[[Cao Yu (playwright)|Cao Yu]] (1910–1996, China)
*[[Karel Čapek]] (1890–1938, Austria-Hungary/Czechoslovakia) in Czech
*[[Luigi Capuana]] (1839–1915, Italy)
*[[Alfred Capus]] (1858–1922, France)
*[[Ion Luca Caragiale]] (1852–1912, Romania)
*[[Emilio Carballido]] (1925–2008, Mexico)
*[[Louis Carette]] {redirect to [[Félicien Marceau]]}
*[[Henry Carey (writer)|Henry Carey]] (1687–1743, England)
*[[Annibale Caro]] (1507–1566, Italy)
*[[Harriet Frances Carpenter]] (1868/75 – 1956, United States)
*[[Paul Vincent Carroll]] (1900–1968, Ireland/Scotland)
*[[R. C. Carton]] (1853–1928, England)
*[[Jim Cartwright]] (born 1958, England)
*[[William Cartwright (dramatist)|William Cartwright]] (1611–1643, England)
*[[Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland|Elizabeth Cary]] (1585–1639, England)
*[[John Caryll (senior)|John Caryll]] (1625–1711, England)
*[[Alejandro Casona]] (1903–1965, Spain)
*[[Guillén de Castro y Bellvís]] (1569–1631, Spain)
*[[Jane Cavendish]] (1621–1669, England)
*[[Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne|Margaret Cavendish]] (1623–1673, England)
*[[Susanna Centlivre]] (c. 1667–1723, England)
*[[Miguel de Cervantes]] (1547–1616, Spain)
*[[Linda Chambers (playwright)|Linda Chambers]] (born 1954, United States)
*[[George Chapman]] (c. 1560–1634, England)
*[[Katharine Hopkins Chapman]] (1870/72/73-1930, United States)
*[[Charlotte Charke]] (1713–1760, England)
*[[Mary Coyle Chase]] (1907–1981, United States)
*[[Paddy Chayefsky]] (1923–1981, United States)
*[[Anton Pavlovich Chekhov]] (1860–1904, Russia)
[[Matilde Cherner]] (1833-1880, Spain)
*[[Andrew Cherry]] (1762–1812, Ireland)
*[[William Rufus Chetwood]] (died 1766, England/Ireland)
*[[Luigi Chiarelli]] (1880–1947, Italy)
*[[Chikamatsu Monzaemon]] (1653–1725, Japan)
*[[Jerome Chodorov]] (1911–2004, United States)
*[[Agatha Christie]] (1890–1976, England)
*[[Eugenia Chuprina]] (born 1971, Ukraine)
*[[Caryl Churchill]] (born 1938, England)
*[[Colley Cibber]] (1671–1757, England)
*[[Giovanni Battista Cini]] (c. 1525–1586, Italy)
*[[Henry Savile Clarke]] (1841–1893, England)
*[[Roy Clarke]] (born 1930, England)
*[[John Clavell]] (1601–1643, England)
*[[Paul Claudel]] (1868–1955, France)
*[[Dick Clement]] (born 1937, England)
*[[Rick Cleveland]] (living, United States)
*[[Lucy Clifford]] (1846–1929, England)
*[[Kitty Clive]] (1711–1785, England)
*[[Aston Cockayne]] (1608–1684, England)
*[[Catharine Trotter Cockburn]] (1679–1749, England)
*[[Jean Cocteau]] (1889–1963, France)
*[[Antonio Coello y Ochoa]] (1611–1652, Spain)
*[[George M. Cohan]] (1878–1942, United States)
*[[Catrin Collier]] (born 1948, Wales) in English
*[[George Colman the Elder]] (1732–1794, England)
*[[John Colton (screenwriter)|John Colton]] (1889–1946, United States/England)
*[[Padraic Colum]] (1881–1972, Ireland/United States)
*[[Rosina Conde]] (born 1954, Mexico)
*[[Pat Condell]] (born 1949, Ireland/England)
*[[William Congreve]] (1670–1729, England)
*[[Richard Conlon]] (born 1965, England)
*[[Marc Connelly]] (1890–1980, United States)
*[[Tony Connor]] (born 1930, England)
*[[Robert Taylor Conrad]] (1810–1858, United States)
*[[Michael Cook (playwright)|Michael Cook]] (1933–1994, Canada)
*[[Thomas Cooke (author)|Thomas Cooke]] (1703–1756, England)
*[[Ray Cooney]] (born 1932, England)
*[[Jacques Copeau]] (1879–1949, France)
*[[François Coppée]] (1842–1908, France)
*[[Simon Corble]] (living, England)
*[[Pierre Corneille]] (1606–1684, France)
*[[Thomas Corneille]] (1625–1709, France)
*[[Joe Corrie]] (1894–1968, Scotland)
*[[Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas]] (United States)
*[[Pietro Cossa]] (1830–1881, Italy)
*[[Georges Courteline]] (1858–1929, France)
*[[Noël Coward]] (1899–1973, England)
*[[Hannah Cowley (writer)|Hannah Cowley]] (1743–1809, England)
*[[Louis O. Coxe]] (1918–1993, United States)
*[[Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley]] (1750–1828, England)
*[[Henry Thornton Craven]] (1818–1905, England)
*[[Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon]] (1674–1762, France)
*[[Martin Crimp]] (born 1956, England)
*[[Michael Cristofer]] (born 1945, United States)
*[[Francis de Croisset]] (1877–1937, France)
*[[Fernand Crommelynck]] (1885–1970, Belgium/France) in French
*[[A. J. Cronin]] (1896–1981, Scotland)
*[[A. F. Cross]] (1863–1940, England)
*[[Rachel Crothers]] (1878–1958, United States)
*[[Russel Crouse]] (1893–1966, United States)
*[[Catherine Crowe]] (1803–1876, England)
*[[Mart Crowley]] (1935–2020, United States)
*[[John Crowne]] (1641–1712, England)
*[[Nilo Cruz]] (born 1960, Cuba/United States) in English
*[[Ramón de la Cruz]] (1731–1794, Spain)
*[[Gergely Csíky]] (1842–1891, Hungary)
*[[Franz Theodor Csokor]] (1885–1969, Austria)
*[[Álvaro Cubillo de Aragón]] (1596–1661, Spain)
*[[Juan de la Cueva]] (c. 1550–1610, Spain)
*[[Tom Cullen]] (born 1985, Wales/England) in English
*[[Richard Cumberland (dramatist)|Richard Cumberland]] (1732–1811, England)
*[[E. E. Cummings]] (1894–1962, United States)
*[[François de Curel]] (1854–1928, France)
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