The Play (Dramatic Form)

A play is any instance of theatre primarily characterized by scripted speech

is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601.

is a 1944 existentialist French play by Jean-Paul Sartre.

is a play by Irish playwright and author Samuel Beckett.

is a three-act play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

is a Jacobean era stage play, the work that inaugurated the playwriting career of John Fletcher.

is the last play by the Russian playwright Anton Chekhov.

is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles.

is a tragedy based on a myth, written by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides.

is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.

is a theatrical comedy (or more specifically, a farce) by Molière.

is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin.

is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca.

is a drama written by the German playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller in 1804.

is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles in either 442 or 440 BC and first performed at the Festival of Dionysus of the same year.

is a 1949 stage play written by the American playwright Arthur Miller.

is a play written by Tennessee Williams which was first performed on Broadway on December 3, 1947.

is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, estimated to have been first performed in 1606.

is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare around 1603.

is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare in late 1605 or early 1606.

is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families.

is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, first staged in early 411 BCE at Lenaea festival in classical Athens.

is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides, produced in 415 BCE.

is a romantic tragicomedy play written by dramatist Tang Xianzu in 1598.

is an 11-act bunraku puppet play composed in 1748.

is a Spanish-language play by Pedro Calderón de la Barca.

is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921.

is a naturalistic play written in 1888 by August Strindberg.

is a stage play written by Georg Büchner.

is a 1928 German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera The Beggar's Opera, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill.

is a play by playwright Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959.

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is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon.

is an ancient Greek tragedy traditionally attributed to Aeschylus and thought to have been composed sometime between 479 BC and the terminus ante quem of 424 BC.

is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes.

is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year.

is a play by the Spanish playwright Lope de Vega.

is a tragic play in two parts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two, based on the German folk legend Faust.

is a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

is a satirical play by Nigerian playwright, poet, and Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka.

Phèdre (French: [fɛdʁ]; originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.

The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General (Russian: Ревизор, romanized: Revizor, literally: "Inspector" or "Auditor"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol.

Abhijnanashakuntalam (Devanagari: अभिज्ञानशाकुन्तलम्, IAST: Abhijñānaśākuntalam), also known as Shakuntala, The Recognition of Shakuntala, The Sign of Shakuntala, is a Sanskrit play by the ancient Indian poet Kalidasa, dramatising the story of Shakuntala told in the epic Mahabharata and regarded as the best of Kalidasa's works.

is a French play written in 1897 by Edmond Rostand

in the form of a 1904 play and a 1911 novel titled Peter and Wendy