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Title

Playwright

Written

1

All’s Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare

1604

2

As You Like It

William Shakespeare

1599

3

King Lear

William Shakespeare

1591

4

Othello

William Shakespeare

1604

5

A Midsummer-Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

1596

6

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

1606

7

Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare

1608

8

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

1611

9

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare

1599

10

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

1601

11

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

1596

12

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

1598

13

The Doctor’s Dilemma

G. B. Shaw

1906

14

Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare

1602

15

Three Sisters (Russian)

Anton Chekhov

1901

16

The Master Builder (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1892

17

Mrs. Warren’s Profession

G. B. Shaw

1902

18

Red Roses for Me

Sean O’Casey

1943

19

All My Sons

Arthur Miller

1947

20

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

1945

21

Pygmalion

G. B. Shaw

1913

22

Saint Joan

G. B. Shaw

1923

23

Dr. Faustus

Christopher Marlowe

1592

24

Faust (German)

Goethe

1831

25

She Stoops to Conquer

Oliver Goldsmith

1773

26

The Rivals

Richard Sheridan

1775

27

The Apple Cart

G. B. Shaw

1929

28

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

1962

29

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Bertolt Brecht

1932

30

The Devil’s Disciple

G. B. Shaw

1897

31

Caesar and Cleopatra

G. B. Shaw

1901

32

Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

G. B. Shaw

1900

33

The Rules of the Game (Italian)

Luigi Pirandello

1918

34

Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot

1935

35

Six Characters in Search of an Author (Italian)

Luigi Pirandello

1921

36

Henry IV (Italian)

Luigi Pirandello

1922

37

Blithe Spirit

Noel Coward

1941

38

Hay Fever

Noel Coward

1925

39

Private Lives

Noel Coward

1930

40

Ivanov (Russian)

Anton Chekhov

1887

41

The Seagull (Russian)

Anton Chekhov

1896

42

Uncle Vanya (Russian)

Anton Chekhov

1900

43

The Cherry Orchard (Russian)

Anton Chekhov

1904

44

Major Barbara

G. B. Shaw

1905

45

Juno and the Paycock

Sean O’Casey

1924

46

The Shadow of a Gunman

Sean O’Casey

1923

47

The Plough and the Stars

Sean O’Casey

1926

48

The Father (Swedish)

August Strindberg

1887

49

Miss Julie (Swedish)

August Strindberg

1888

50

The Dance of Death (Swedish)

August Strindberg

1900

51

A Dream Play (Swedish)

August Strindberg

1901

52

The Ghost Sonata (Swedish)

August Strindberg

1907

53

The Jew of Malta

Christopher Marlowe

1633

54

The Playboy of the Western World

John M. Synge

1907

55

Riders to the Sea

John M. Synge

1904

56

In the Shadow of the Glen

John M. Synge

1903

57

The Well of the Saints

John M. Synge

1905

58

The Tinker’s Wedding

John M. Synge

1904

59

Deirdre of the Sorrows

John M. Synge

1910

60

The School for Wives (French)

Moliere

1663

61

Tartuffe (French)

Moliere

1664

62

The Misanthrope (French)

Moliere

1666

63

The Miser (French)

Moliere

1668

64

The Hypochondriac (French)

Moliere

1673

65

Arms and The Man

G. B. Shaw

1932

66

A Woman of No Importance

Oscar Wilde

1893

67

Iphigenia (French)

Jean Racine

1674

68

Phaedra (French)

Jean Racine

1677

69

Athaliah (French)

Jean Racine

1691

70

The Garden Party (Czech)

Vaclav Havel

1963

71

The Memorandum (Czech)

Vaclav Havel

1965

72

The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Czech)

Vaclav Havel

1968

73

Audience (Czech)

Vaclav Havel

1978

74

Unveiling (Czech)

Vaclav Havel

1978

75

Protest (Czech)

Vaclav Havel

1978

76

The League of Youth (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1869

77

A Doll’s House (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1879

78

The Lady from the Sea (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1888

79

The Pillars of the Community (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1877

80

The Wild Duck (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1884

81

Hedda Gabler (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1890

82

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams

1959

83

A Streetcar Named Desire

Tennessee Williams

1947

84

On Baile’s Strand

W. B. Yeats

1903

85

Promotheus Bound (Greek)

Aeschylus

460 B.C.

86

Oedipus the King (Greek)

Sophocles

425 B.C.

87

Hippolytus (Greek)

Euripides

428 B.C.

88

Ghosts (Norwegian)

Henrik Ibsen

1881

89

Desire Under the Elms

Eugene O’Neill

1924

90

A View from the Bridge

Arthur Miller

1957

91

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

1955

92

The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore

Tennessee Williams

1963

93

Night of the Iguana

Tennessee Williams

1961

94

Waiting for Godot

Samuel Beckett

1949

95

The Alchemist

Ben Jonson

1610

96

Look Back in Anger

John Osborne

1956

97

The Crucible

Arthur Miller

1953