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King Lear
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

Krapp's Last Tape
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1670

Le Cid
Pierre Corneille

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

Les Belles Soeurs
Michel Tremblay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1968

Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Look Back in Anger
John Osborne

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Lost In Yonkers
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Love for Love
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1695

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Macbeth
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

Machinal
Sophie Treadwell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

Man And Superman
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1903

Manfred
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1817

Man of La Mancha
Dale Wasserman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1984

Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Medea
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Medea
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 49

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Lessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1779

Night, Mother
Marsha Norman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

No Sugar
Jack Davis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Oedipus
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 60

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Orestes
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 409

Othello
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Our Town
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1867

Phaedra
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 54

Phèdre
Jean Racine

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

Philoctetes
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Picnic
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

Proof
David Auburn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Pseudolus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1913

Rent
Jonathan Larson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Richard II
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

Richard III
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

Ruined
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

R.U.R.
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1923

Salome
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Samson Agonistes
John Milton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1671

Seven Guitars
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

She Kills Monsters
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1773

Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello, Transl. Edward Storer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1921

Six Degrees of Separation
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Sorry, Wrong Number
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

Spike Heels
Theresa Rebeck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy
Frank Wedekind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Suddenly, Last Summer
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Sweat
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Tartuffe
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1664

The Adding Machine
Elmer Rice

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1929

The Alchemist
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1610

The Amen Corner
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The America Play
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

The Bacchae
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 405

The Balcony
Jean Genet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Birds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Braggart Soldier
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Brothers Menaechmus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

The Changeling
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1622

The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

The Children's Hour
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1934

The Clean House
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Clouds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Colored Museum
George C. Wolfe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Country Wife
William Wycherley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1675

The Crucible
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

The Diary of Anne Frank: A Play
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1614

The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

The Emperor Jones
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

The Father
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1887

The Flick
Annie Baker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

The Frogs
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

The Good Woman Of Setzuan
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1836

The Heidi Chronicles
Wendy Wasserstein

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

The Hitchhiker
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

The Homecoming
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

The Imaginary Invalid
Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1673

The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

The Laramie Project
Moises Kaufman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001