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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 Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1722

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

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 Humans
Stephen Karam

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

The Hungry Woman
Cherríe Moraga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

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

The Lesson
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The Libation Bearers
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

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 Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

The Miracle Worker
William Gibson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Miser
Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1668

The Misunderstanding
Albert Camus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1943

The Mountaintop
Katori Hall

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

The Mousetrap
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail
Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

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 Pillowman
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

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 Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

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 School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1777

The Seagull
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

The Second Shepherd's Play
Wakefield Master

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1500

The Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1942

The Spanish Tragedy
Thomas Kyd

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

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 Threepenny Opera
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

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 Way of the World
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1700

The White Devil
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1612

The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1621

This Is Our Youth
Kenneth Lonergan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

Thyestes
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 65

Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

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

Troilus and Cressida
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1601

Trojan Women
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

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

Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Venus
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Vietgone
Qui Nguyen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Volpone
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

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
Stephen Sondheim, Arthur Laurents

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