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Tent of Miracles
Jorge Amado

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

That Championship Season
Jason Miller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

The Acharnians
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 425

The Admirable Crichton
J. M. Barrie

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Baltimore Waltz
Paula Vogel

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
David Rabe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The Beauty Queen of Leenane
Martin McDonagh

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Beggar's Opera
John Gay

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1728

The Belle of Amherst
William Luce

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Blood Knot
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1961

The Broken Jug
Heinrich von Kleist

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1808

The Browning Version
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1948

The Caretaker
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

The Cenci
Antonin Artaud

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1935

The Cocktail Party
T. S. Eliot

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

The Contrast
Maria Edgeworth

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1801

The Cryptogram
David Mamet

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The Darker Face of the Earth
Rita Dove

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1994

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

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1990

The Doctor's Dilemma
George Bernard Shaw

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1906

The Double Bass
Patrick Süskind

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1981

The Dumb Waiter
Harold Pinter

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Ecclesiazusae
Aristophanes

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 392

The Exonerated
Erik Jensen, Jessica Blank

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2002

The Game of Love and Chance
Pierre Marivaux

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1730

The Ghost Sonata
August Strindberg

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1907

The Great God Brown
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1926

The Hairy Ape
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1922

The History Boys
Alan Bennett

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2004

The House of Blue Leaves
John Guare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1971

The Iceman Cometh
Eugene O'Neill

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1946

The Jew of Malta
Christopher Marlowe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1589

The Kentucky Cycle
Robert Schenkkan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

The King and I
Richard Rodgers

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The Last Night of Ballyhoo
Alfred Uhry

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1996

The Lion in Winter
James Goldman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1966

The Lower Depths
Maxim Gorky

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1902

The Man of Mode
George Etherege

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1676

The Man Who Turned into a Stick
Kōbō Abe

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1957

The Masque of Blackness
Ben Jonson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1605

The Master Builder
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1892

The Matchmaker: A Farce in Four Acts
Thornton Wilder

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1954

The Merry Wives of Windsor
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1602

The Misanthrope
Moliere

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1666

The Physicists
Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1962

The Real Inspector Hound
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1968

The Recruiting Officer
George Farquhar

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1706

The Revenger's Tragedy
Thomas Middleton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

The Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket
Peter Parnell

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1976

The Rivals
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1775

The River Niger
Joseph A. Walker

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1972

The Robbers
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1781

The Rose Tattoo
Tennessee Williams

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951

The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Peter Shaffer

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

The Seafarer
Conor McPherson

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

The Sisters Rosensweig
Wendy Wasserstein

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1992

The Swamp Dwellers
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1958

The Tables Turned
William Morris

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1887

The Trials of Brother Jero
Wole Soyinka

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1960

The Way We Live Now
Elizabeth Osborn

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 2022

The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1884

The Winslow Boy
Terence Rattigan

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1946

The Zoo Story
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1959

Three Tall Women
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1991

Timon of Athens
William Shakespeare

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1607

Tiny Alice
Edward Albee

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1964

Travesties
Tom Stoppard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1974

True West
Sam Shepard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1980

Valley Song
Athol Fugard

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1995

Watch on the Rhine
Lillian Hellman

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1941

What the Butler Saw
Joe Orton

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1969

When We Dead Awaken
Henrik Ibsen

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1899

William Tell
Friedrich Schiller

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1804

Woyzeck
Georg Büchner

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1837

York Mystery Plays
York Mystery Plays

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1951