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100 Famous Plays
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| King Lear | William Shakespeare |
| Oedipus the King | Sophocles |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |
| Oresteia | Aeschylus |
| Macbeth | William Shakespeare |
| Long Day’s Journey into Night | Eugene O’Neill |
| Othello | William Shakespeare |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Medea | Euripides |
| Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare |
| A Doll’s House | Henrik Ibsen |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov |
| Bacchae | Euripides |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| Antigone | Sophocles |
| Tartuffe | Moliere |
| Antony and Cleopatra | William Shakespeare |
| Mother Courage and Her Children | Bertolt Brecht |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Woyzeck | Georg Büchner |
| Volpone, or the Fox | Ben Jonson |
| Henry IV | William Shakespeare |
| The Way of the World | William Congreve |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| The Tempest | William Shakespeare |
| Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw |
| Endgame | Samuel Beckett |
| Sakuntala | Ka¯lida¯sa |
| Miss Julie | August Strindberg |
| The Peony Pavilion | Tang Xianzu |
| The Misanthrope | Moliere |
| Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov |
| Life is a Dream | Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
| Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen |
| The School for Scandal | Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
| The Playboy of the Western World | John Millington Synge |
| The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O’Neill |
| The Love Suicides at Sonezaki | Chikamatsu Monzaemon |
| Everyman | Anonymous |
| Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes | Tony Kushner |
| A Midsummer Night’s Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw |
| Phedre | Jean Racine |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare |
| Look Back in Anger | John Osborne |
| The Homecoming | Harold Pinter |
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Edward Albee |
| The Plough and the Stars | Sean O’Casey |
| The Alchemist | Ben Jonson |
| Trojan Women | Euripides |
| Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw |
| Blood Wedding | Federico Garcia Lorca |
| The Marriage of Figaro | Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| The Good Person of Setzuan | Bertolt Brecht |
| She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith |
| Murder in the Cathedral | T.S. Eliot |
| The Bald Soprano | Eugene Ionesco |
| The Ghost Sonata | August Strindberg |
| The Inspector General | Nikolai Gogol |
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller |
| Marat/Sade | Peter Weiss |
| Translations | Brian Friel |
| The Beggar’s Opera | John Gay |
| Amphitryon | Plautus |
| No Exit | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| The Country Wife | William Wycherly |
| Travesties | Tom Stoppard |
| The Lower Depths | Maxim Gorky |
| Private Lives | Noel Coward |
| Fool for Love | Sam Shepard |
| A Flea in Her Ear | Georges Feydeau |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet |
| King Ubu | Alfred Jarry |
| Cloud Nine | Caryl Churchill |
| At the Hawk’s Well | William Butler Yeats |
| Orpheus | Jean Cocteau |
| “Master Harold” … and the Boys | Athol Fugard |
| The Well-Curb | Zeami Motokiyo |
| The Other Shore | Gao Xingjan |
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman |
| Fences | August Wilson |
| The Dybbuk | S. Ansky |
| The Visit | Friedrich Durrenmatt |
| The Weavers | Gerhart Hauptmann |
| Le Cid | Pierre Corneille |
| The Rover | Aphra Behn |
| Awake and Sing! | Clifford Odets |
| The Brothers | Terence |
| The Balcony | Jean Genet |
| Accidental Death of an Anarchist | Dario Fo |
| The Hostage | Brendan Behan |
| The Heidi Chronicles | Wendy Wasserstein |
| The King’s the Best Magistrate | Lope de Vega |
| Peter Pan | James M. Barrie |