| PLAYS |
PLAYWRIGHT |
YEAR
WRITTEN |
| Agamemnon |
Aeschylus |
5th
c. B.C. |
| The
Poetics |
Aristotle |
5th
c. B.C. |
| Oedipus
the King |
Sophocles |
4th
c. B.C. |
| Antigone |
Sophocles |
4th
c. B.C. |
| Medea |
Euripides |
4th
c. B.C. |
| The
Bacchae |
Euripides |
4th
c. B.C. |
| The
Birds |
Aristophanes |
4th
c. B.C. |
| Lysistrata |
Aristophanes |
4th
c. B.C. |
| Phormio
|
Terence |
1st
c. B.C. |
| The
Menaechmi |
Plautus |
2nd
c. B.C. |
| Medea |
Seneca |
Early
1st c. |
| Everyman |
Anonymous |
1475 |
| The
Second Shepherd's Play |
Anonymous |
Early
14th c. |
| The
Tempest |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| A
Midsummer Night's Dream |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Comedy
of Errors |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Twelfth
Night |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Romeo
and Juliet |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Othello |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| King
Lear |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Macbeth |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Richarld
III |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Richard
II |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Henry
IV part 1 |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Hamlet |
Shakespeare |
Late
16th c. |
| Volpone |
Ben
Johnson |
Late
16th c. |
| The
Duchess of Malfi |
John
Webster |
Late
16th c. |
| The
Tragical History of Doctor Faustus |
Christopher
Marlowe |
Late
16th c. |
| Tartuffe |
Moliere |
17th
c. |
| The
Misanthrope |
Moliere |
17th
c. |
| The
Rover |
Aphra
Behn |
1677
& 1681 |
| The
Sheep Well |
Lope
de Vega |
Late
16 c. |
| Life
is a Dream |
Pedro
de la Barca Calderon |
Late
17th c. |
| School
For Scandel |
Richard
Brinslet Sheridan |
1777 |
| Therese
Raquin |
Emile
Zola |
1873 |
| Miss
Julie |
August
Strindberg |
1888 |
| Hedda
Gabler |
Henrik
Ibsen |
1890 |
| Arms
and the Man |
George
Bernard Shaw |
1894 |
| The
Importance of Being Earnest |
Oscar
Wilde |
1895 |
| The
Cherry Orchard |
Anton
Chekhov |
1904 |
| "Riders
to the Sea" |
John
Millington Synge |
1904 |
| Six
Characters in Search of an Author |
Luigi
Pirandello |
1921 |
| The
Children's Hour |
Lillian
Hellman |
1934 |
| An
Actor Prepares |
Constantine
Stanislavski |
1936 |
| Mother
Courage |
Bertolt
Brecht |
1937 |
| Our
Town |
Thorton
Wilder |
1938 |
| "No
Exit" |
Jean-Paul
Sartre |
1944 |
| The
Glass Menagerie |
Tennessee
Williams |
1945 |
| Death
of a Salesman |
Arthur
Miller |
1949 |
| "Waiting
for Godot" |
Samuel
Beckett |
1953 |
| "Zoo
Story" |
Edward
Albee |
1958 |
| Long
Day's Journey into Night |
Eugene
O'Neill |
1957 |
| "The
Lesson" |
Eugene
Ionesco |
1958 |
| The
Birthday Party |
Harold
Pinter |
1958 |
| A
Raisin in the Sun |
Lorraine
Hansberry |
1959 |
| Who's
Afraid of Virginia Wolff? |
Edward
Albee |
1962 |
| Equus |
Peter
Shaffer |
1974 |
| Buried
Child |
Sam
Shepard |
1978 |
| Children
of a Lesser God |
Mark
Medoff |
1980 |
| 'night
Mother |
Marsha
Norman |
1983 |
| Glengarry
Glen Ross |
David
Mamet |
1984 |
| The
Piano Lesson |
August
Wilson |
1987 |
| M.
Butterfly |
David
Henry Hwang |
1988 |
| Dancing
at Lughnasa |
Brian
Friel |
1990 |
| Angels
in America: Part I |
Tony
Kushner |
1991 |
| Lost
in Younkers |
Neil
Simon |
1991 |
| Art |
Yasmina
Reza |
1994 |
| The
Beauty Queen of the Leenane |
M.
McDonagh |
1996 |
| Picasso
at the Lapin Agile |
Steve
Martin |
1996 |
| How
I Learned to Drive |
Paula
Vogel |
1998 |
| W;t |
Margaret
Edson |
1999 |
| MUSICALS |
PLAYWRIGHT |
YEAR
WRITTEN |
| The
Black Crook |
1st
musical |
1866 |
| Showboat |
Hammerstein/Kern |
1928 |
| Oklahoma! |
Rodgers/Hammerstein |
1943 |
| My
Fair Lady |
Lerner/Lowe |
1956 |
| West
Side Story |
Berstein/Sondheim |
1957 |
| Hair |
Ragni/McDermott |
1968 |
| Jesus
Christ Superstar |
Lloyd-Webber/Rice |
1971 |
| Assassins |
Sondheim |
1991 |
| Rent |
Larson |
1996 |
