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Heracles
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Hippolytus
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 428

How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

Indecent
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Inherit the Wind
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Intimate Apparel
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Ion
Euripides, Ed. John C. Gilbert

Fiction | Play | Adult

Iphigenia in Aulis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 410

Joe Turner's Come and Gone
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

Juno and the Paycock
Seán O'Casey

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

King Hedley II
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

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

Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

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

M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

Medea
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Medea
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 49

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

My Fair Lady
Frederick Loewe, Alan Jay Lerner

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

Noises Off
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

No Sugar
Jack Davis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Oedipus
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 60

Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 401

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

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

Pericles
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Phaedra
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 54

Phèdre
Jean Racine

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

Philoctetes
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Picnic
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1953

Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 456

Proof
David Auburn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2000

Pseudolus
Plautus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1913

Radio Golf
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

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

Riders to the Sea
John Millington Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

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 Against Thebes
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 467

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

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Hugh Wheeler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

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