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Almost, Maine
John Cariani

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Elephant Man
Bernard Pomerance

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

Much Ado About Nothing
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

King Lear
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

Fences
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Our Town
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1949

Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1932

Medea
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Mousetrap
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1593

Lysistrata
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

Pygmalion
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1913

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

The Persians
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1 BCE

No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Sweat
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

The Piano Lesson
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

West Side Story
Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

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

Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

La Casa De Bernarda Alba
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

Anna In The Tropics
Nilo Cruz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Fiddler on the Roof
Joseph Stein, Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Macbeth
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

No Sugar
Jack Davis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Wit
Margaret Edson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Laramie Project
Moises Kaufman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

The Hitchhiker
Lucille Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Everyman
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1485

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955