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458 The Oresteia Aeschylus
c.450- 425 Prometheus Bound Aeschylus
442-441 Antigone
Sophocles
431 Medea Euripides
430 Oedipus Rex Sophocles
423 The Clouds Aristophanes
c.420-410 Electra Sophocles
418 Electra Euripides
414 The Birds Aristophanes
411 Lysistrata Aristophanes
406 The Bacchae Euripides
c.200 Menaechmi (The
Twin Brothers) Plautus
c.50 Media Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Hercules Furens Lucius
Annaeus Seneca
c.300 The Vision of
Vasavadatta Bhasa
c.400 The Recognition
of Sakuntala Kalidasa
c.1400 Atsumori
Zeami Motokiyo
1485 Everyman Anonymous
1586 The Spanish
Tragedy Thomas Kyd
1587 Tamburlaine the
Great Christopher Marlowe
1588 Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
1592 Edward II Christopher Marlowe
1594 A Midsummer
Night's Dream William Shakespeare
c.1596 Romeo
and Juliet William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare
1597 Henry IV, Part
1 William Shakespeare
1598 The Peony
Pavilion Tang Xianzu
1599 Julius Caesar William Shakespeare
1601 Hamlet William Shakespeare
1603 A Woman Killed
with Kindness Thomas Heywood
1604 Othello William Shakespeare
1604-05 The
Honest Whore Thomas Dekker
1606 King Lear William Shakespeare
Volpone Ben
Jonson
c.1606 Macbeth
William Shakespeare
c.1608 The
Faithful Shepherdess John Fletcher
1610 The Alchemist Ben Jonson
1611 The Tempest William Shakespeare
1613 The Duchess of
Malfi John Webster
c.1614 The
Sheep Well Lope de Vega
1633 ‘Tis Pity She’s
a Whore John Ford
1635 Life is a Dream
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
1637 Le Cid Pierre Corneille
1643 The Mayor of
Zalamea Pedro Calderón de la
Barca
1662 The School for
Wives Molière
1664 Tartuffe Molière
1666 The Misanthrope
Molière
1667 Andromache Jean Racine
1670 The Bourgeois
Gentleman Molière
1675 The Country
Wife William Wycherley
1676 The Plain
Dealer William Wycherley
1677 Phaedra Jean Racine
1700 The Way of the
World William Congreve
1728 The Beggar’s
Opera John Gay
1753 The Mistress of
the Inn Carlo
Goldoni
1773 She Stoops to
Conquer Oliver Goldsmith
1775 The Rivals Richard Sheridan
The Barber of Seville
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
c.1776 Saul
Vittorio Alfieri
1777 The School for
Scandal Richard Sheridan
1779 Nathan the Wise
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1784 The Marriage of
Figaro Pierre Augustin Caron
de Beaumarchais
1798 Speed the
Plough Thomas Morton
1804 William Tell Friedrich Schiller
1808-32 Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
1821 Prince
Friedrich of Homburg Heinrich von
Kleist
1835 Chatterton Alfred de Vigny
1836 The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol
1852 Camille Alexandre Dumas (fils)
1860 The Storm Alexander Ostrovsky
1867 Peer Gynt Henrik Ibsen
1879 A Doll’s House Henrik Ibsen
1887 The Father August Strindberg
1889 Miss Julie August Strindberg
1891 Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen
1892 Pelleas and
Melisande Maurice Maeterlinck
1893 The Master
Builder Henrik Ibsen
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray Arthur
Wing Pinero
1894 Arms and the
Man George Bernard Shaw
1895 The Importance
of Being Ernest Oscar Wilde
1896 The Sea Gull Anton Chekhov
1898 Cyrano de
Bergerac Edmond
Rostand
1900 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov
1901 The Three
Sisters Anton Chekhov
The Dance of Death August
Strindberg
1903 The Cherry
Orchard Anton Chekhov
Man and Superman George
Bernard Shaw
1904 Riders to the
Sea John Millington Synge
1905 The Voysey
Inheritance Harley
Granville-Barker
Major Barbara George
Bernard Shaw
1907 The Playboy of
the Western World John Millington
Synge
1916 Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw
1918 The Breasts of
Tiresias Guillaume Apollinaire
1921 Six Characters
in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello
1923 Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw
1924 Juno and the
Paycock Sean O'Casey
1926 Orpheus Jean Cocteau
The Plough and the Stars Eugene
O’Casey
1928 The Three-Penny
Opera Bertolt Brecht
1930 Cakes and Ale W. Somerset
Maughham
Private Lives Noel
Coward
1933 Blood Wedding Federico Garcia Lorca
1935 Murder in the
Cathedral T.S. Eliot
Awake and Sing! Clifford
Odets
1938 Our Town Thornton
Wilder
1939 Mother Courage
and her Children Bertolt Brecht
The Little Foxes Lillian
Hellman
1944 Antigone Jean Anouilh
No Exit Jean-Paul
Sartre
1945 The Caucasian
Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht
The Madwoman of Chaillot Jean
Giraudoux
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee
Williams
The Iceman
Cometh Eugene O’Neill
1947 The Maids Jean Genet
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee
Williams
1947-57 The
Dark at the Top of the Stairs William
Inge
1948 Ring Round the
Moon Jean Anouilh
1949 Death of a
Salesman Arthur Miller
1950 Come Back,
Little Sheba William Inge
1952 Waiting for
Godot Samuel Beckett
The Chairs Eugene
Ionesco
1954 Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas
1956 Look Back in Anger
John Osburn
Long Day’s Journey into Night Eugene O’Neill
The Visit Friedrich
Dürrenmatt
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee
Williams
1957 Endgame Samuel Beckett
1958 The Caretaker Harold Pinter
The Hostage Brendan
Behan
1959 Archangels
Don't Play Pinball Dario Fo
1962 The Changeling Thomas Middleton
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? Edward Albee
1963 The Garden
Party Vaclav Havel
The Crucible Arthur
Miller
1967 Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead Tom
Stoppard
1968 Les
Belles-Soeurs Michel Tremblay
The Lion in Winter James
Goldman
1977 The Gin Game D.L. Coburn
1978 Buried Child Sam Shepard
1979 Jitters David French
1982 Noises Off Michael Frayn
"Master Harold"...and the Boys Athol Fugard
1984 Glengarry Glen
Ross David Mamet
1990 Six Degrees of
Separation John Guare
1992 Angels in America
Tony Kushner
Oleanna David
Mamet
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