Examples
- The Elder Statesman (1959) was the last of T. S. Eliot's drawing room works.
- Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most widely known examples of the drawing room play.
- Several of the collected works of Noël Coward are also considered typical of the form.
- Paul Rudnick's Regrets Only is a contemporary drawing room comedy released in 2006.
- Additional authors include Clement Scott, Walter Besant, Grace Luce Irwin and Arnold Bennett.
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