| 100% | SYNGE | 5 | J M —, author of 1907 stage play The Playboy of the Western World |
| 62% | SYNGE | 5 | J. M. ___, "The Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 61% | PLAYBOY | 7 | The __ of the Western World, play by J M Synge |
| 57% | SYNGE | 5 | "The Playboy of the Western World" author |
| 49% | SYNGE | 5 | "The Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 49% | SYNGE | 5 | "The Playboy of the Western World" dramatist |
| 49% | SYNGE | 5 | Playboy of the Western World playwright |
| 48% | JOHNWHITING | 11 | Author of 1961 stage play The Devils |
| 48% | OCASEY | 6 | Sean —, author of the stage play The Plough and the Stars |
| 46% | FARQUHAR | 8 | George —, author of 1707 stage play The Beaux' Stratagem |
| 46% | PETERSHAFFER | 12 | Author of the stage plays Equus and Amadeus |
| 45% | PLAYBOY | 7 | __ of the Western World, Synge's provocative play |
| 45% | IBSEN | 5 | Henrik —, author of the stage plays Hedda Gabler and The League of Youth |
| 45% | TZARA | 5 | Tristan —, Romania-born French Dadaist author of 1921 stage play The Gas Heart |
| 45% | DAVIDMAMET | 10 | Author of the stage plays American Buffalo and Speed-the-Plow |
| 44% | NICHOLS | 7 | Peter —, author of 1969 stage play The National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair |
| 44% | BALLARD | 7 | J G —, author of novels Crash and The Drowned World |
| 44% | BARRIE | 6 | J M —, author of 1902 novel The Little White Bird |
| 44% | DUNN | 4 | Nell —, author of the stage plays Steaming and Cancer Tales |
| 44% | ANOUILH | 7 | Jean —, French author of the stage plays Antigone and Becket |
| 44% | DURRENMATT | 10 | Friedrich —, author of stage plays Romulus the Great and The Visit |
| 44% | HARE | 4 | David —, author of the stage plays Gethsemane and The Vertical Hour |
| 44% | FRAYN | 5 | Michael —, author of the stage plays Alphabetical Order and Noises Off |
| 43% | SYNGE | 5 | "Playboy of the Western World" playwright |
| 43% | ODETS | 5 | Clifford —, author of the stage plays Waiting for Lefty and Clash by Night |
| 43% | SNOOWILSON | 10 | Author of stage plays The Grass Widow and The Glad Hand |
| 42% | TRISTANTZARA | 12 | Romania-born French author of 1921 stage play The Gas Heart best known as a founder of Dadaism |