another type of drama was developed in England under the influence of the Irish Dramatic Movement whose originators were Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats.
The two important dramatists belonging to this movement are J.M. Synge and Sean O'Casey.
There has been the revival of Poetic Drama in the twentieth century, whose most important practitioner was T. S. Eliot.
Other modern dramatists who have also written poetic plays are
Christopher Fry,
Stephen Philips and Stephen Spender.
Most of the poetic plays written in modern times have a religious theme, and they attempt to preach the doctrine of Christianity .