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A Flea in Her Ear
Georges Feydeau

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

Sizwe Banzi Is Dead
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

Orpheus Descending
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

A Moon for the Misbegotten
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1952

The Lower Depths
Maxim Gorky

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Great God Brown
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1926

A Delicate Balance
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

Golden Boy
Clifford Odets

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1937

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

Travesties
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974

Electra
Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1903

Henry VI, Part 3
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1595

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Henry VIII
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

Heartbreak House
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1919

Life of Galileo
Bertolt Brecht

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1938

Lend Me A Tenor
Ken Ludwig

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

The King and I
Richard Rodgers

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

Quiet Torrential Sound
Joan Ackermann

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

John Bull's Other Island
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1904

Sticks and Bones
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

A New Way to Pay Old Debts
Philip Massinger

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1625

Gorboduc
Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1970

The Kentucky Cycle
Robert Schenkkan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing
Tomson Highway

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

The Way We Live Now
Elizabeth Osborn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2022

The Cenci
Antonin Artaud

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

Strange Interlude
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1928

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Three Tall Women
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1613

Hayavadana
Girish Karnad

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

Bus Stop
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

The Tables Turned
William Morris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1887

The Winslow Boy
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1946

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
Ray Lawler

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1955

Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

That Championship Season
Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

The Belle of Amherst
William Luce

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

Eleemosynary
Lee Blessing

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1985

The Double Bass
Patrick Süskind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet)
Ann-Marie MacDonald

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1988

The Exonerated
Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

Tiny Alice
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

The Broken Jug
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1808

Broadway Bound
Neil Simon

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1986

The Sisters Rosensweig
Wendy Wasserstein

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Bondage
David Henry Hwang

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Baltimore Waltz
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

Other Desert Cities
Jon Robin Baitz

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2011

The Man Who Turned into a Stick
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

Alison's House
Susan Glaspell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1930

Short Eyes
Miguel Piñero

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974

The Blood Knot
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Cryptogram
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Abingdon Square
María Irene Fornés

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1977

Love! Valour! Compassion!
Terrence McNally

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

The River Niger
Joseph A. Walker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

All God's Chillun Got Wings
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1924

Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom
Suzan-Lori Parks

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1989

The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Alfred Uhry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

Escaped Alone
Caryl Churchill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2016

Beasts of the Southern Wild
Benh Zeitlin (film)

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1973