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The Lesson
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The Libation Bearers
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

The Lion and the Jewel
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

The Maids
Jean Genet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1596

The Miracle Worker
William Gibson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Miser
Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1668

The Mountaintop
Katori Hall

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

The Mousetrap
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Octoroon
Dion Boucicault

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1859

The Odd Couple
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

The Persians
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Piano Lesson
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 400

The Rez Sisters
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

The Road to Mecca
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

The Rover
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

The Sandbox
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Seagull
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

The Second Shepherd's Play
Wakefield Master

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1500

The Seven against Thebes
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 467

The Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1942

The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1593

The Tempest
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1611

The Thanksgiving Play
Larissa Fasthorse

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2019

The Tragedy of Mariam
Elizabeth Cary

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

The Vagina Monologues
Eve Ensler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

The Witch of Edmonton
Thomas Dekker, John Ford, William Rowley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1621

Thyestes
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 65

Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Top Girls
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Translations
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

Trifles
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1916

Trojan Women
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Trouble in Mind
Alice Childress

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Anna Deavere Smith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

Two Trains Running
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Ubu Roi
Alfred Jarry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1896

Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

Waiting For Lefty
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Water By The Spoonful
Quiara Alegría Hudes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

West Side Story
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

What the Constitution Means to Me
Heidi Schreck

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2017

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Women of Trachis
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Yellow Face
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

Zoot Suit
Luis Valdez

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992