Drama
The stage, the monologue, the exit. Sophocles to Suzan-Lori Parks.
50 essential works
Oedipus Rex
Sophocles
-429 · Greece
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Hamlet
William Shakespeare
1601 · England
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King Lear
William Shakespeare
1606 · England
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The Oresteia
Aeschylus
-458 · Greece
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Waiting for Godot
Samuel Beckett
1953 · Ireland/France
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The Cherry Orchard
Anton Chekhov
1904 · Russia
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Antigone
Sophocles
-441 · Greece
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The Bacchae
Euripides
-405 · Greece
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Macbeth
William Shakespeare
1606 · England
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A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen
1879 · Norway
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Long Day's Journey Into Night
Eugene O'Neill
1956 · USA
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Medea
Euripides
-431 · Greece
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Death of a Salesman
Arthur Miller
1949 · USA
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Lysistrata
Aristophanes
-411 · Greece
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Tartuffe
Moliere
1664 · France
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams
1947 · USA
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The Tempest
William Shakespeare
1611 · England
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Othello
William Shakespeare
1604 · England
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Mother Courage and Her Children
Bertolt Brecht
1941 · Germany
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Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe
1594 · England
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee
1962 · USA
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Endgame
Samuel Beckett
1957 · Ireland/France
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde
1895 · Ireland
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Hedda Gabler
Henrik Ibsen
1891 · Norway
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Luigi Pirandello
1921 · Italy
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Fences
August Wilson
1985 · USA
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Angels in America
Tony Kushner
1991 · USA
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Miss Julie
August Strindberg
1889 · Sweden
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Woyzeck
Georg Buchner
1879 · Germany
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Bertolt Brecht
1945 · Germany
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Major Barbara
George Bernard Shaw
1905 · Ireland
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Three Sisters
Anton Chekhov
1901 · Russia
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Blood Wedding
Federico Garcia Lorca
1933 · Spain
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The Homecoming
Harold Pinter
1965 · England
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Tom Stoppard
1966 · England
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The Misanthrope
Moliere
1666 · France
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A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry
1959 · USA
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The Playboy of the Western World
J.M. Synge
1907 · Ireland
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The Glass Menagerie
Tennessee Williams
1944 · USA
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The Threepenny Opera
Bertolt Brecht
1928 · Germany
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Glengarry Glen Ross
David Mamet
1984 · USA
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Death and the King's Horseman
Wole Soyinka
1975 · Nigeria
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Arcadia
Tom Stoppard
1993 · England
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The Crucible
Arthur Miller
1953 · USA
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Top Girls
Caryl Churchill
1982 · England
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Master Harold...and the Boys
Athol Fugard
1982 · South Africa
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Phedre
Jean Racine
1677 · France
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The Wild Duck
Henrik Ibsen
1884 · Norway
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The Seagull
Anton Chekhov
1896 · Russia
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Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks
2001 · USA
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