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Willy Loman

Arthur Miller. 'Death of A Salesman' - generally considered one of the best American plays. Certainly one of the most famous

Maggie

Tennessee Williams. 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' - featuring 'Maggie the Cat'

George and Martha

Edward Albee. 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' - these are not happy people

Hickey

Eugene O'Neill. 'The Iceman Cometh' - interesting character in a long, big-cast play

Algernon, Lady Bracknell

Oscar Wilde. 'Importance of Being Earnest' - clever, his best

Joan of Arc

George Bernard Shaw. 'Saint Joan' - his most famous (other than Pygmalion)

Nora

Henrik Ibsen. 'A Doll's House' - big-time feminism in its day

James, Ella, Jamie and Edmund Tyrone

Eugene O'Neill. The haunted family in the autobiographical 'Long Day's Journey into Night'. What a life!

Vladimir and Estragon

Samuel Beckett. The two tramps in 'Waiting for Godot' - famous, but not exactly easy entertainment

Stanley and Blanche

Tennessee Williams. 'Streetcar Named Desire' - see comment to the first Answer