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Plays; Writer, Info
Stack #108599
| Author(s) | Work | Characters | Date | Plot | Miscellaneous |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aeschylus (Greek) | Prometheus Bound | Prometheus, Hephaestus, Oceanus, Io, | 480-410 BC (?) | The gods express sympathy for Prometheus, the titan chained to a rock. Zeus then sends him to the abyss for not telling Zeus the prophesy about his (Zeus's) downfall. | Authorship of the play is disputed |
| Aeschylus (Greek) | The Persians | Atossa, Xerxes, Darius | 472 BC | Atossa travels to the tomb of her dead husband after learning about the loss at the battle of Salamis. The gods were angered when Xerxes built a bridge across the Hellespont, and caused the loss. | ~Important source for Greek history ~Author's life is *lightly* incorporated into play |
| Aeschylus (Greek) | Seven Against Thebes | Eteocles, Polynices (Antigone, Ismene) | 467 BC | The sons of Oedipus wage war for the crown after Eteocles refuses to step down. The brothers kill each other, and there is mourning in the land. | A new ending was added fifty years later, |
| Aeschylus (Greek) | The Libation Bearers | Orestes, Elecktra, Clytemnestra, Furies, Aegisthus | 525-450 BC (?) | The play is about the planning of Clytemnestra's death by Orestes for the murder of Agamemnon. | 2nd part of the Oresteia |
| Aeschylus (Greek) | Agememnon | Cassandra, Clytemnestra, Agamemnon | 525-450 BC (?) | Clytemnestra is angry with Agamemnon for sacrificing Iphigenia and keeping Cassandra as a concubine. Cassandra predicts her own death, and the death of Clytemnestra. | 1st part of the Oresteia |
| Aeschylus (Greek) | Eumenides | Orestes, Apollo, Athena, Hermes, Furies | 525-450 BC (?) | Orestes's guilt in the murder of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, and Athena eventually decides that he is innocent and that trials should be by jury. | 3rd part of the Orestia |
| Aristophanes (Greek) | Lysistrata | (blank) | 411 BC | Lysistrata convinces local women to stop sleeping with their husbands so they can get their way. | |
| Aristophanes (Greek) | The Clouds | Strepsiades, Pheidippides, Socrates, Chaerephon | 423 BC | Socrates, descending from the heavens, shows Pheidippides and Strepsiades a "thinkery". | May have contributed to the execution of Socrates |
| Aristophanes (Greek) | The Wasps | Philocleon (Procleon), Bdelycleon (Anticleon), | 422 BC | Philocleon judges others, and spends his excess time as a juror, who is tricked into his first aquittal. | Satire! A dog in the play eats Sicilian cheese, and is put on trial; this is possibly in reference to the trial of Laches, who was accused of accepting bribes from Sicily. |
| Aristophanes (Greek) | The Birds | Pisthetairos, Euelpides, Prometheus, Hercules, Iris, Zeus, Poseidon, Basileia | 422 BC | Pisthetairos and Euelpides turn into birds, and the former takes over their newly-made Cloudcukooland as tyrant. The gods eventually need to bargain with Pisthetairos for sacrifices. | Has a unique parabasis, in which the players talk to the audience; it discusses travesties performed against birds by humans. |
| Aristophanes (Greek) | The Frogs | Dionysus, Xanthias, Aeschylus, Euripedes, Aeacus | 405 BC | Aristophanes, upset by the state of theater at the time, holds a contest in Hades to bring either Euripedes or Aeschylus back from the dead (the winner is the best poet/playwright). | |
| James M Barrie (Scottish) | Quality Street | Valentine Brown, Miss Phoebe Throssel, Susan Throssell | 1901 | Valentine Brown goes off to fight with Napoleon, and ten years later, Phoebe (sick of acting lady like), still entrances him as alter-ego Miss Livvy. | |
| James M Barrie (Scottish) | The Admirable Crichton | Lady Mary Lasenby, Crichton, The Earl of Loam | 1902 | Crichton and the Earl of Laom are stranded on an island. | |
| James M Barrie (Scottish) | Peter Pan (The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up) | Peter Pan, Wendy, John, Michael, Mr. and Mrs Darling, Nana, Cptn. Hook, Smee, Tiger Lily, Tinker Bell | 1902 | Three children go off to Never-Never Land to be the family of the Lost Boys. After a princess is kidnapped by pirates, the Lost Boys war with the pirates. | The main character previously appeared in the author's book "The Little White Bird". |
| James M Barrie (Scottish) | What Every Woman Knows | (blank) | 1908 | (blank) | |
| Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchus (French) | The Barber of Seville | Count Almaviva, Figaro, Rosina, Bartholo, Bazile | 1775 | Count Almaviva is in love with Rosina, but Bartholo wants to marry her. The Count and Rosina enlist Figaro to help. | |
| Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchus (French) | The Marriage of Figaro | Count Almaviva, Countess Rosine, Figaro, Suzanne, Marceline, Antonio, Fanchette, Chérubin, Bartholo | 1784 | Suzanna and Figaro wish to get married, but the Count wants Suzanna for himself. | Heavily influenced by the Barber of Seville - even character names were taken. |
| Samuel Beckett (French) | Waiting for Godot | Vladimir "Didi", Pozzo, Estragon "Gogo", Lucky | 1964 | Two men wait for their old friend, who admittedly they would not recognize if he came. | |
| Samuel Beckett (French) | The Endgame | Nag, Nell, Hamm, Clov | 1957 | Hamm, who cannot stand, and Clov, who cannot sit, fight in a world with no sea, no sun, and no clouds. | |
| Lord George Gordon Byron (English) | Manfred | Manfred, Chamois Hunter, Abbot of St. Maurice, Manuel, Herman, | 1817 | A man who may be responsible for his lover's death asks seven spirits for forgiveness, which they cannot grant him. | |
| Robert Browning (English) | Pippa Passes | Pippa, Ottima, Sebald, Julie | 1841 | ||
| Francis Hodgson Burnett (American) | Esmeralda | (blank) | 1881 | (blank) | |
| Anton Chekov (Russian) | The Seagulls | (blank) | 1896 | (blank) | |
| Anton Chekov (Russian) | Uncle Vanya | (blank) | 1899 | (blank) | |
| Anton Chekov (Russian) | The Three Sisters | (blank) | 1901 | (blank) | |
| Anton Chekov (Russian) | The Cherry Orchard | (blank) | 1904 | (blank) | |
| Paddy Chayefsky (American) | Marty | (blank) | 1953 | (blank) | |
| Agatha Christie [Mary Clarissa Miller] (English) | The Mousetrap | (blank) | 1952 | (blank) | |
| Sir Noel Coward (English) | Blithe Spirit | (blank) | 1941 | (blank) | |
| Edward Estlin Cummings (American) | Santa Claus A Morality | (blank) | 1946 | (blank) | |
| Alexandra Dumas | Camille | (blank) | 1852 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | Zoo Story | (blank) | 1959 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | The Sand Box | (blank) | 1960 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | The Death of Bessie Smith | (blank) | 1961 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | The American Dream | (blank) | 1961 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf | (blank) | 1962 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | Tiny Alice | (blank) | 1965 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | A Delicate Balance | (blank) | 1966 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung | (blank) | 1968 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | All Over | (blank) | 1971 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | Seascape | (blank) | 1975 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | The Lady of Dubuque | (blank) | 1980 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | The Man Who Has Three Arms | (blank) | 1982 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | Fragments: A Concerto Grosso | (blank) | 1993 | (blank) | |
| Edward Albee | Three Tall Women | (blank) | 1994 | (blank) | |
| Maxwell Anderson | What Price Glory | (blank) | 1924 | (blank) | |
| Maxwell Anderson | Both Your House | (blank) | 1933 | (blank) | |
| Maxwell Anderson | Winterset | (blank) | 1935 | Sacco-Vanzetti | |
| Maxwell Anderson | Key Largo | (blank) | 1939 | (blank) | |
| Maxwell Anderson | Anne of a Thousand Days | (blank) | 1948 | (blank) | |
| Jean Anouilh | Antigone | (blank) | 1942 | (blank) | |
| Jean Anouilh | Lark | (blank) | 1953 | Joan of Arc | |
| Enid Bagnold | The Chalk Garden | (blank) | 1956 | (blank) | |
| Albert Camus | Caligula | (blank) | 1944 | (blank) | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | Murder in the Cathedral | (blank) | 1935 | (blank) | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Family Reunion | (blank) | 1939 | (blank) | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Cocktail Party | (blank) | 1950 | (blank) | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Confidential Clerk | (blank) | 1953 | (blank) | |
| Thomas Stearns Eliot | The Edler Statesmen | (blank) | 1958 | (blank) | |
| Euripedes | Alcestis | (blank) | 438 BC | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Ion | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | The Bacchae | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Helen | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Medea | Medea, Jason | 431 BC | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Orestes | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Hecuba | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Electra | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | The Trojan Woman | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | The Phoenician Women | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Iphigenia in Aulus | (blank) | 405 BC | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripedes | Hippolytus | (blank) | 428 BC | (blank) | (blank) |
| Euripides | Iphigenia in Tauris | (blank) | 414-412 BC | (blank) | (blank) |
| John Gay | The Begger's Opera | (blank) | 1728 | (blank) | Turned into an opera |
| Moss Hart (George Kaufman) | You Can't Take It With You | (blank) | 1936 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize winner |
| Moss Hart | The Man Who Came To Dinner | (blank) | 1939 | Disgruntled critic breaks hip bone and is forced to stay with (-) | (blank) |
| Moss Hart | George Washington Slept Here | (blank) | 1940 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Moss Hart | Act One | (blank) | 1959 | (blank) | Autobiography |
| Maxim Gorky | The Lower Depths | (blank) | 1959 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Lillian Hellman | The Children's Hour | (blank) | 1936 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Lillian Hellman | The Little Foxes | (blank) | 1939 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Lillian Hellman | Watch on the Rhine | (blank) | 1941 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | Peer Gynt | (blank) | 1867 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll's House | (blank) | 1879 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | Ghosts | (blank) | 1881 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | An Enemy of the People | (blank) | 1882 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | The Wild Duck | (blank) | 1884 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | Hedda Gabbler | (blank) | 1890 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | The Master Builder | (blank) | 1892 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Henrik Ibsen | When We Dead Awaken | (blank) | 1899 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Thomas Kyd | The Spanish Tragedy | (blank) | 1587 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Joseph Kesselring | Arsenic and Old Lace | (blank) | 1941 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Lula Carson Smith McCullers | The Square Root of Wonderful | (blank) | 1958 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Christopher Marlowe | Tamburlaine the Great | (blank) | 1587 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Christopher Marlowe | The Jew of Malta | (blank) | 1589 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Christopher Marlowe | The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus | (blank) | 1588 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Arthur Miller | All Fall Down | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| Arthur Miller | All My Sons | (blank) | 1947 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Arthur Miller | Death of a Salesman | (blank) | 1949 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Arthur Miller | The Crucible | (blank) | 1953 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Arthur Miller | A View from the Bridge | (blank) | 1955 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Arthur Miller | After the Fall | (blank) | 1966 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Moliere | Le Tartuffe | (blank) | 1664 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Moliere | The Misanthrope | (blank) | 1666 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sean O'Casey | The Shadow of a Gunman | (blank) | 1923 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sean O'Casey | Juno and the Paycock | (blank) | 1924 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sean O'Casey | The Plough and the Stars | (blank) | 1926 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sean O'Casey | The Silver Tassie | (blank) | 1928 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sean O'Casey | Within the Gates | (blank) | 1933 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sean O'Casey | The Bishop's Bonfire | (blank) | 1955 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Beyond the Horizon | (blank) | 1920 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Emperor Jones | (blank) | 1920 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Anna Christie | (blank) | 1922 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | The Hairy Ape | (blank) | 1922 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Desire under the Elms | (blank) | 1924 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | The Great God Brown | (blank) | 1926 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Lazarus Laughed | (blank) | 1927 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Strange Interlude | (blank) | 1928 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Mourning Becomes Electra | (blank) | 1931 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Ah! Wilderness! | (blank) | 1933 | (blank) | His only real comedy |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | A Moon for the Misbegotten | (blank) | 1952 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | The Iceman Cometh | (blank) | 1939 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | Long Day's Journey Into Night | (blank) | 1956 | Pulitzer Prize | (blank) |
| Eugene Gladstone O'Neill | A Touch if the Poet | (blank) | 1957 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Wall | (blank) | 1939 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Flies | (blank) | 1943 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | No Exit | (blank) | 1944 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | The Respectful Prostitute | (blank) | 1946 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Saroyan | The Time of your Life | (blank) | 1939 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Robert Emmet Sherwood | The Petrified Forest | (blank) | 1936 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Robert Emmet Sherwood | Idiot's Delight | (blank) | 1936 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Robert Emmet Sherwood | Abe Lincoln In Illinois | (blank) | 1938 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Robert Emmet Sherwood | There Shall Be No Night | (blank) | 1940 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| J.M. Synge | The Playboy of the Western World | 1907 | Christy Mahone arrives in village claiming to have killed his father, but his father comes back alive. The village then kicks Christy out of the village as a bum | (blank) | |
| Edith Wharton | The Old Maid | (blank) | 1924 | (blank) | Won Pulitzer Prize |
| Gore Vidal | The Best Man | (blank) | 1960 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Thornton Wilder | Our Town | (blank) | 1939 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Thornton Wilder | The Skin of our Teeth | (blank) | 1942 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Thornton Wilder | The Matchmaker | (blank) | 1954 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | The Glass Menagerie | (blank) | 1944 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | A Streetcar Namead Desire | Blanche DuBois, Stella Kowalski, Stanley Kowalski | 1947 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Tennessee Williams | Summer and Smoke | (blank) | 1947 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | The Rose Tattoo | (blank) | 1951 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | Camino Real | (blank) | 1953 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | (blank) | 1955 | (blank) | Pulitzer Prize |
| Tennessee Williams | Orpheus Descending | (blank) | 1957 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | Suddenly Last Summer | (blank) | 1958 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | The Sweet Bird of Youth | (blank) | 1959 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Tennessee Williams | The Night of the Iguana | (blank) | 1961 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sophocles | Oedipus Rex | Oedipus, Jocasta, Creon, Messenger, Tiresias | 462 BC | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sophocles | Oedipus at Colonus | (blank) | 406 BC | (blank) | (blank) |
| Sophocles | Antigone | Antigone, Ismene, Creon | 441 BC | Antigone defies Creon's ruling and attempts to properly bury her rebel brother. | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Arms and the Man | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | The Devil's Disciple | (blank) | 1897 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Caesar and Cleopatra | (blank) | 1899 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Candida | (blank) | 1899 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | John Ball's Other Island | (blank) | 1904 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Major Barbara | Major Barbara | 1905 | (blank) | |
| George Bernard Shaw | Man and Superman | (blank) | 1905 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Androcles and the Lion | (blank) | 1912 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Pygmalion | Eliza Dolittle, Professor Hengry Higgins, Freddy Eynesford-Hill | 1913 | Prof. Higgins makes a bet with Colonel Pickering that he can make Eliza Dolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a properly-speaking young woman. | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Heartbreak House | (blank) | 1913 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Back to Methuselah | (blank) | 1921 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Saint Joan | (blank) | 1925 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Henry VI | (blank) | 1590-1592 | (blank) | A three-part play, historical as well |
| William Shakespeare | The Comdey of Errors | (blank) | 1590-1592 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Titus Andronicus | (blank) | 1590-1592 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Two Gentlemen of Verona | (blank) | 1592 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | The Taming of the Shrew | (blank) | 1593 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Love's Labour Lost | (blank) | 1593-1594 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Richard III | (blank) | 1594 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Richard II | (blank) | 1595 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | A Midsummer Night's Dream | (blank) | 1595-1596 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Romeo Juliet | (blank) | 1596 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | The Merchant of Venice | (blank) | 1596 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | King John | (blank) | 1596-1597 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | The Merry Wives of Windsor | (blank) | 1597-1600 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Henry IV | (blank) | 1597-1598 | (blank) | Historical play of 2 parts |
| William Shakespeare | Much Ado About Nothing | (blank) | 1598-1599 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Henry V | (blank) | 1598-1599 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | As You Like It | (blank) | 1599-1600 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Julius Caesar | (blank) | 1599-1600 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Twelfth Night | (blank) | 1599-1600 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Hamlet | (blank) | 1600-1601 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Trolius and Cressida | (blank) | 1600-1602 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | All's Well That Ends Well | (blank) | 1602 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Othello | (blank) | 1604 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Measure for Measure | (blank) | 1604-1605 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | King Lear | (blank) | 1605-1606 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Antony and Cleopatra | (blank) | 1607-1608 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Timon of Athens | (blank) | 1607-1608 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Pericles | (blank) | 1608-1609 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Coriolanus | (blank) | 1608-1609 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Cymbeline | (blank) | 1609-1610 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | Macbeth | (blank) | 1606 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | The Winter's Tale | (blank) | 1610-1611 | (blank) | (blank) |
| William Shakespeare | The Tempest | (blank) | 1611-1612 | (blank) | (blank) |
| George Bernard Shaw | Mrs. Warren's Profession | (blank) | 1893 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean Racine | Andromaque | (blank) | 1667 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean Racine | Berenice | (blank) | 1670 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean Racine | Iphigenie | (blank) | 1674 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean Racine | Phedre | (blank) | 1677 | (blank) | (blank) |
| Jean Racine | Esther | (blank) | 1689 | (blank) | (blank) |
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