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A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

A Soldier's Play
Charles Fuller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

The Recognition of Sakuntala
Kalidasa

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 400

Seven Guitars
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Le Cid
Pierre Corneille

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

Two Trains Running
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1890

Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

Agamemnon
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Man of La Mancha
Dale Wasserman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1913

Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

Richard II
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1601

Arcadia
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

The Changeling
Thomas Middleton, William Rowley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1622

Pericles
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

King Hedley II
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

The Persians
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Venus
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Libation Bearers
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Sweet Bird of Youth
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Visit
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Love for Love
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1695

An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1882

The Clouds
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Endgame
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Sweat
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

The White Devil
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1612

Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1881

The Piano Lesson
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes
Tony Kushner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Saint Joan
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1923

Fefu and Her Friends
María Irene Fornés

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Ajax
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Arden of Faversham
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1592

The Tragedy of Mariam
Elizabeth Cary

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

Seven Against Thebes
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 467

In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play)
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Suddenly, Last Summer
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Spring Awakening: A Children’s Tragedy
Frank Wedekind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1891

Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Picnic
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 401

Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

The Seagull
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Manfred
Lord George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron)

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1817

The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1836

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1921

An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

Noises Off
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

The Second Shepherd's Play
Wakefield Master

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1500

Trifles
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1916

The Road to Mecca
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

Rent
Jonathan Larson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

West Side Story
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Translations
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

Peer Gynt
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1867

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1984

A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Crucible
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

The Country Wife
William Wycherley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1675

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

Cato, a Tragedy
Joseph Addison

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1713

Proof
David Auburn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Rajiv Joseph

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

Clybourne Park
Bruce Norris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2010

Dancing At Lughnasa
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

Hamlet
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Celestina
Fernando de Rojas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1499

Faust, Part One
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1829

La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

Ruined
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Don Juan Tenorio
José Zorrilla y Moral

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1844

Life Is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1636

The Flick
Annie Baker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2014

Zoot Suit
Luis Valdez

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Braggart Soldier
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

The Octoroon
Dion Boucicault

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1859

The Good Woman Of Setzuan
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

The Adding Machine
Elmer Rice

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1929