Home›Drama and Theatre›All Drama and TheatreBrowse ByAll Drama and TheatreReference and ClassificationVerifiedWorks written for the stage: comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy and drama proper. Belongs here: every play in this atlas's roster, from Attic tragedy to twentieth century theatre of the absurd. Does not belong here: a narrative work merely adapted for the stage elsewhere, which stays classed by the form it was actually written in.FactsAll Drama and TheatreSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1873 1All Drama and TheatreFilter Results45 entriesAuthorAllAeschylus (2)Anton Chekhov (2)Aristophanes (2)Arthur Miller (1)August Strindberg (1)Bertolt Brecht (2)Eugène Ionesco (1)Euripides (3)F. Scott Fitzgerald (1)Federico García Lorca (1)Friedrich Schiller (1)Georg Büchner (1)Henrik Ibsen (2)Jean Racine (1)Jean-Paul Sartre (1)Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1)John Steinbeck (1)Kalidasa (1)Lope de Vega (1)Luigi Pirandello (1)Miyoshi Shoraku (1)Molière (1)Namiki Senryu (1)Nikolai Gogol (1)Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1)Pierre Corneille (1)S. An-sky (1)Samuel Beckett (1)Sophocles (2)Takeda Izumo II (1)Tang Xianzu (1)Tennessee Williams (1)William Shakespeare (5)Wole Soyinka (1)GenreAllComedy (5)Drama (21)Psychological Horror (1)Satire (1)Southern Gothic (1)Tragedy (18)Tragicomedy (3)Composition YearAll-479 (1)458 BCE (1)-441 (1)431 BCE (1)429 BCE (1)-415 (1)-412 (1)-405 (2)1597 (1)1598 (1)1600 (1)1604 (1)1606 (2)1619 (1)1635 (1)1636 (1)1664 (1)1677 (1)1748 (1)1772 (1)1804 (1)1807 (1)1835 (1)1836 (1)1837 (1)1879 (2)1888 (1)1889 (1)1890 (1)1895 (1)1903 (1)1921 (1)1922 (2)1925 (1)1928 (1)1931 (1)1932 (1)1937 (1)1939 (1)1944 (2)1947 (1)1948 (1)1949 (2)1950 (1)1952 (1)1959 (1)1960 (1)1964 (1)2023 (1)AudienceAllChildren's (8)General (36)Young Adult (1)Original LanguageAllAncient Greek (to 1453) (grc, ISO 639-3) (8)Chinese (1)English (11)Estonian (1)French (6)German (5)Greek (1)Italian (1)Japanese (1)Norwegian (2)Romanian (1)Russian (3)Sanskrit (1)Spanish (3)Swedish (1)Yiddish (1)MovementAllLost Generation (1)AwardAllOuter Critics Circle Award (1)Pulitzer Prize for Drama (2)Tony Award (1)Country of OriginAllChina (1)Classical Athens (3)England (1)France (5)Germany (5)Greece (6)India (1)Italy (1)Japan (1)Nigeria (1)Norway (2)Russia (3)Spain (3)Sweden (1)Turkey (1)United Kingdom (5)United States (4)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 45A Doll's HouseDrama and TheatreA Streetcar Named DesireDrama and TheatreAbhijnanasakuntalamDrama and TheatreAntigoneDrama and TheatreBlood WeddingDrama and TheatreDeath of a SalesmanDrama and TheatreEverymanDrama and TheatreFaustDrama and TheatreFuenteovejunaDrama and TheatreHamletDrama and TheatreHedda GablerDrama and TheatreKanadehon ChushinguraDrama and TheatreKing LearDrama and TheatreLe CidDrama and TheatreLife Is a DreamDrama and TheatreLysistrataDrama and TheatreMacbethDrama and TheatreMedeaDrama and TheatreMiss JulieDrama and TheatreMother Courage and Her ChildrenDrama and TheatreNo ExitDrama and TheatreOedipus RexDrama and TheatreOf Mice and MenDrama and TheatreOresteiaDrama and TheatreOthelloDrama and TheatrePhèdreDrama and TheatrePrometheus BoundDrama and TheatreRhinocerosDrama and TheatreRomeo and JulietDrama and TheatreSix Characters in Search of an AuthorDrama and TheatreTartuffeDrama and TheatreThe BacchaeDrama and TheatreThe Cherry OrchardDrama and TheatreThe DybbukDrama and TheatreThe FrogsDrama and TheatreThe Government InspectorDrama and TheatreThe Great GatsbyDrama and TheatreThe Peony PavilionDrama and TheatreThe SeagullDrama and TheatreThe Threepenny OperaDrama and TheatreThe Trials of Brother JeroDrama and TheatreThe Trojan WomenDrama and TheatreWaiting for GodotDrama and TheatreWilliam TellDrama and TheatreWoyzeckDrama and TheatreSources1. Drama (Wikipedia)tier 2Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia)Drama, lead section, narrow modern-era drama sense sentenceQuote, Drama, lead section, narrow modern-era drama sense sentence"Drama" in this sense refers to a play that is neither a comedy nor a tragedy, for example, Zola's Therese Raquin (1873) or Chekhov's Ivanov (1887).View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.