WHo are the other people who could have written plays?

There are several people who could have written plays in the past:

- William Shakespeare's contemporaries like Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson were renowned playwrights during the Elizabethan era.

- Ancient Greek playwrights such as Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus.

- Italian Renaissance playwrights like Niccolò Machiavelli and Pietro Aretino.

- French playwrights like Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille, and Molière.

- German playwrights such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.

- Spanish Golden Age playwrights including Lope de Vega, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and Tirso de Molina.

- Modern era playwrights like Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, and Oscar Wilde.

These are just a few examples of notable playwrights who made significant contributions to the world of theatre.