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Accidental Death Of An Anarchist
Dario Fo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

A Dance of the Forests
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1879

A Few Good Men
Aaron Sorkin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Agamemnon
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Ajax
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Alcestis
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

All My Sons
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

All's Well That Ends Well
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

Almost, Maine
John Cariani

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Amadeus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

A Man For All Seasons
Robert Bolt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

American Buffalo
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

American Moor
Keith Hamilton Cobb

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2019

A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

An Enemy of the People
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1882

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1895

An Inspector Calls
J.B. Priestley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1945

Anna In The Tropics
Nilo Cruz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

An Octoroon
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Anowa
Ama Ata Aidoo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Antigone
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult

Antigone
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Antony and Cleopatra
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Arcadia
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Arden of Faversham
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1592

Arsenic and Old Lace
Joseph Kesselring

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

A Soldier's Play
Charles Fuller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1947

As You Like It
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

A Tempest
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

August: Osage County
Tracy Letts

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2007

A View from the Bridge
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

A Woman Killed With Kindness
Thomas Heywood

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1606

A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

Barefoot In The Park
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Becket
Jean Anouilh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo
Rajiv Joseph

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2009

Betrayal in the City
Francis Imbuga

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Between Riverside And Crazy
Stephen Adly Guirgis

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Beyond the Horizon
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1920

Blithe Spirit
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

Blood Wedding
Federico García Lorca

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1932

Caesar and Cleopatra
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1898

Caligula
Albert Camus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1944

Cato, a Tragedy
Joseph Addison

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1713

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Celestina
Fernando de Rojas

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1499

Clybourne Park
Bruce Norris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2010

Copenhagen
Michael Frayn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Coriolanus
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1608

Cost of Living
Martyna Majok

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Crimes of the Heart
Beth Henley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

Crumbs From the Table of Joy
Lynn Nottage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1998

Curse of the Starving Class
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Cyclops
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 422

Cymbeline
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1623

Cyrano de Bergerac
Edmond Rostand

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1897

Dancing At Lughnasa
Brian Friel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1949

Disgraced
Ayad Akhtar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2012

Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

Don Juan Tenorio
José Zorrilla y Moral

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1844

Doubt: A Parable
John Patrick Shanley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2005

Dream on Monkey Mountain
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Dutchman
Amiri Baraka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Edward II
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1593

Electra
Sophocles

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 450

Electra
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Endgame
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Eumenides
Aeschylus

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 458

Everybody
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

Everyman
Anonymous

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1485

Fairview
Jackie Sibblies Drury

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2018

Fat Ham
James Ijames

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2023

Father Comes Home From the Wars
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Faust, Part One
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1829

Fefu and Her Friends
María Irene Fornés

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Fences
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Fires In The Mirror
Anna Deavere Smith

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1993

Flyin' West
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1975

Fuenteovejuna
Lope de Vega

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1618

Gem of the Ocean
August Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1881

Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2015

Hamlet
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Harlem Duet
Djanet Sears

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1997

Hecuba
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1890

Helen
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry IV, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1597

Henry V
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1599

Heracles
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | BCE

Hippolytus
Euripides

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 428