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Abingdon Square
María Irene Fornés

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1977

Absurd Person Singular
Sir Alan Ayckbourn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

A Dream Play
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1901

A Flea in Her Ear
Georges Feydeau

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

Agnes of God
John Pielmeier

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

A Lie Of The Mind
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

All for Love
John Dryden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1677

All God's Chillun Got Wings
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Philip Massinger

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1625

Anna Christie
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

Arms and the Man
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1894

A Season in the Congo
Aimé Césaire

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

Bartholomew Fair
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1614

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin (film)

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973

Biloxi Blues
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

Blood Brothers
Willy Russell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Blues for an Alabama Sky
Pearl Cleage

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Blues for Mister Charlie
James Baldwin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Boesman and Lena
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

Bondage
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Boris Godunov
Alexander Pushkin

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1825

Broadway Bound
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Buried Child
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1978

Bus Stop
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Cathleen Ni Houlihan
William Butler Yeats

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

Children of a Lesser God
Mark Medoff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Cloud 9
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Death and the Maiden
Ariel Dorfman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

Deirdre of the Sorrows
J. M. Synge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1910

Desire Under the Elms
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Driving Miss Daisy
Alfred Uhry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1987

Dr Strangelove
Peter George

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Educating Rita
Willy Russell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

Electra
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1903

Eleemosynary
Lee Blessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

Equus
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973

Escaped Alone
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Evam Indrajit
Badal Sircar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1963

Every Man In His Humour
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Fool for Love
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1983

Freedom from Fear
Aung San Suu Kyi

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Golden Boy
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1937

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Gorboduc
Thomas Sackville, Thomas Norton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

Happy Days
Samuel Beckett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

Hay Fever
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1925

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1919

Henry IV, Part 2
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1600

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

Henry VI, Part 1
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult

Henry VI, Part 3
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

I Am My Own Wife
Doug Wright

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2003

Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Incident At Vichy
Arthur Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

I Will Marry When I Want
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1982

John Bull's Other Island
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

Journey's End
R.C. Sherriff

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

King John
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1598

Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

Lend Me A Tenor
Ken Ludwig

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Lobby Hero
Kenneth Lonergan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2001

Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1905

Marriage of Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1786

Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1931

Mrs. Warren's Profession
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1893

Mulatto
Langston Hughes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life
Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Oleanna
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

On Golden Pond
Ernest Thompson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

Our Country’s Good
Timberlake Wertenbaker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

Pantomime
Derek Walcott

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1978

Pericles
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Philaster
Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1609

Phormio
Terence

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 161

Pig Girl
Colleen Murphy

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

Private Lives
Noël Coward

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1820

Quiet Torrential Sound
Joan Ackermann

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
John Arden

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Short Eyes
Miguel Piñero

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974

Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You
Christopher Durang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Song of a Goat
John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

Sticks and Bones
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Strange Interlude
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Sweet Bird of Youth
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Talley's Folly
Lanford Wilson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1979

Tamburlaine
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1587