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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

The School for Scandal
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1777

Equus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973

All My Sons
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

M. Butterfly
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Twelve Angry Men
Reginald Rose

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Murder in the Cathedral
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

The Rover
Aphra Behn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

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

Miss Julie
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1888

Richard III
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

She Stoops to Conquer
Oliver Goldsmith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1773

Fences
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Oedipus Rex
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Our Town
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Tartuffe
Molière

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1664

The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

The Way of the World
William Congreve

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1700

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

The Tempest
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1611

Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1949

Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 456

The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1932

Cymbeline
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

Juno and the Paycock
Seán O'Casey

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Medea
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf
Ntozake Shange

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Hugh Wheeler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

The Playboy of the Western World
John Millington Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

Riders to the Sea
John Millington Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

The Duchess of Malfi
John Webster

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1614

Henry V
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

Measure For Measure
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1604

The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

The Miracle Worker
William Gibson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

The Mousetrap
Agatha Christie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

Two Gentlemen of Verona
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

The Birthday Party
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Little Foxes
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1939

The Miser
Jean-Baptiste Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1668

Top Girls
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Waiting For Lefty
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

August: Osage County
Tracy Letts

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

The Comedy of Errors
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

The Heidi Chronicles
Wendy Wasserstein

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Titus Andronicus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1594

An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

Oresteia
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult

Anowa
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Hippolytus
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 428

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

R.U.R.
Karel Čapek

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Love's Labour's Lost
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Volpone
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

Lost In Yonkers
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

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

A Man For All Seasons
Robert Bolt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

Samson Agonistes
John Milton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1671

The Night of the Iguana
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Accidental Death Of An Anarchist
Dario Fo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Uncle Vanya
Anton Chekhov

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

The Bald Soprano
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Phaedra
Seneca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 54

My Fair Lady
Alan Jay Lerner, Frederick Loewe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1956

Eumenides
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1820

The Colored Museum
George C. Wolfe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

The Pillowman
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

The Clean House
Sarah Ruhl

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Curse of the Starving Class
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

A Woman Killed With Kindness
Thomas Heywood

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1621

The Imaginary Invalid
Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1673

The Taming of the Shrew
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1593

The Frogs
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Conscious Lovers
Richard Steele

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1722

Blithe Spirit
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

A Lie Of The Mind: A Play in Three Acts
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

The Skin of Our Teeth
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1942

This Is Our Youth
Kenneth Lonergan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Sandbox
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Night, Mother
Marsha Norman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Women of Trachis
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Amen Corner
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Madame Butterfly
Giacomo Puccini

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

The Odd Couple
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1965

American Buffalo
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Becket
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959