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Buried Child
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1978

The Rivals
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1775

Boesman and Lena
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

The Cocktail Party
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

Evam Indrajit
Badal Sircar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Mrs. Warren's Profession
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

Woyzeck
Georg Büchner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1837

Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Blood Brothers
Willy Russell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Educating Rita
Willy Russell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

Our Country’s Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

The Real Inspector Hound
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1968

The Beggar's Opera
John Gay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1728

The Zoo Story
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Oleanna
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Hairy Ape
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587

Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1884

Dr Strangelove
Peter George

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

The Seafarer
Conor McPherson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1948

Every Man In His Humour
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Absurd Person Singular
Sir Alan Ayckbourn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Agnes of God
John Pielmeier

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

The Acharnians
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 425

Biloxi Blues
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

Blues for Mister Charlie
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

The History Boys
Alan Bennett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Ghost Sonata
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1605

Incident At Vichy
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Journey's End
R.C. Sherriff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

A Dream Play
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

The Man of Mode
George Etherege

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1676

The Trials of Brother Jero
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

Cathleen Ni Houlihan
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1786

Blues for an Alabama Sky
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

William Tell
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1804

Philaster
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Valley Song
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Song of a Goat
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Deirdre of the Sorrows
J. M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1910

Boris Godunov
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1825

I Will Marry When I Want
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

The Robbers
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1781

The Darker Face of the Earth
Rita Dove

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Phormio
Terence

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 161

Pantomime
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1978

The Caretaker
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

Children of a Lesser God
Mark Medoff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
John Arden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

When We Dead Awaken
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1899

What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

The House of Blue Leaves
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The Ecclesiazusae
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 392

Bartholomew Fair
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1614

Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

The Swamp Dwellers
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

I Am My Own Wife
Doug Wright

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

The Rose Tattoo
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The Lion in Winter
James Goldman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

All for Love
John Dryden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

The Misanthrope
Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1666

King John
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

The Revenger's Tragedy
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

Lobby Hero
Kenneth Lonergan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

York Mystery Plays
York Mystery Plays

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The Recruiting Officer
George Farquhar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1706

The Physicists
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1925

True West
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1946

The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Pig Girl
Colleen Murphy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
Peter Parnell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Happy Days
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Fool for Love
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1905

Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1894

Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1931

Mulatto
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

The Contrast
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1801

The Doctor's Dilemma
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1906

The Game of Love and Chance
Pierre Marivaux

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1730

A Season in the Congo
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966