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Aeschylus    wrote    Agamemnon

Albert Camus    wrote    Caligula First performed, 1945

Albert Camus    wrote    The Possessed 1959; adapted from the Dostoyevsky novel

Alfred Uhry    wrote    Driving Miss Daisy 1988, Pulitzer Prize

Anton Chekhov    wrote    The Cherry Orchard 1904; Chekhov's last play

Aristophanes    wrote    Lysistrata

Arthur Miller    wrote    After the Fall 1964

Arthur Miller    wrote    The Crucible

Arthur Miller    wrote    Death of a Salesman

Arthur Miller    wrote    Incident at Vichy One act play, 1964

Arthur Miller    wrote    A View From the Bridge 1955

August Strindberg    wrote    A Dream Play 1902

Edward Albee    wrote    The Ballad of the Sad Cafe Adaped from the novella by Carson McCullers

Edward Albee    wrote    Breakfast at Tiffany's 1966; adapted from the novella by Truman Capote

Edward Albee    wrote    Three Tall Women 1994, Pulitzer Prize

Edward Albee    wrote    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Eugene O'Neill    wrote    Anna Christie 1922, Pulitzer Prize

Eugene O'Neill    wrote    Beyond the Horizon 1920, Pulitzer Prize

Eugene O'Neill    wrote    Long Day's Journey Into Night 1941, first performed, 1956, Pulitzer Prize, 1957

Eugene O'Neill    wrote    Strange Interlude 1928, Pulitzer Prize

Euripides    wrote    Medea Play. An ancient Greek tragedy

Euripides    wrote    Orestes Play. 484-406 BCE. Follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.

Euripides    wrote    Trojan Women Play. The third tragedy of a trilogy of dealing with the Trojan War.

George Bernard Shaw    wrote    Androcles and the Lion

George Bernard Shaw    wrote    Heartbreak House

George Bernard Shaw    wrote    Major Barbara

George Bernard Shaw    wrote    Man and Superman

George Bernard Shaw    wrote    Pygmalion Shaw is the only person to have won both the Nobel Prize for Literature and an Oscar.

George Bernard Shaw    wrote    Saint Joan

Harold Pinter    wrote    Betrayal

Harold Pinter    wrote    The Birthday Party

Harold Pinter    wrote    The Caretaker

Harold Pinter    wrote    The Dumb Waiter

Harold Pinter    wrote    The French Lieutenant's Woman

Harold Pinter    wrote    The Homecoming Tony Award for Best Play

Henrik Ibsen    wrote    A Doll's House 1879

Henrik Ibsen    wrote    Hedda Gabler 1890

Henrik Ibsen    wrote    Peer Gynt 1867

Henrik Ibsen    wrote    The Wild Duck 1884

Howard Sackler    wrote    The Great White Hope 1969, Pulitzer Prize

Jean-Paul Sartre    wrote    No Exit 1944 existential play

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe    wrote    Faust

John Patrick    wrote    The Teahouse of the August Moon 1954, Pulitizer Prize

Luigi Pirandello    wrote    Sei Personaggi in Cerca D'Autore Full title 'Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore(Six Characters in Search of an Author)'.

Marguerite Duras    wrote    Le Square 1955

Maxwell Anderson    wrote    Both Your Houses 1933, Pulitzer Prize

Neil Simon    wrote    Barefoot in the Park 1963

Neil Simon    wrote    The Odd Couple 1963

Neil Simon    wrote    Plaza Suite 1968

Neil Simon    wrote    The Sunshine Boys 1972

Neil Simon    wrote    Sweet Charity 1966

Oscar Wilde    wrote    An Ideal Husband

Oscar Wilde    wrote    The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde    wrote    Lady Windermere's Fan

Oscar Wilde    wrote    Salome

Oscar Wilde    wrote    A Woman of No Importance

Peter Barnes    wrote    Red Noses 1985, Olivier Award

Peter Barnes    wrote    The Ruling Class 1968; 1972 film version with Peter O'Toole

Robert E Sherwood    wrote    Abe Lincoln in Illinois 1939, Pulitzer Prize

Robert E Sherwood    wrote    Idiot's Delight 1936, Pulitzer Prize

Samuel Beckett    wrote    End Game

Samuel Beckett    wrote    Waiting for Godot

Simone De Beauvoir    wrote    Les Buches Inutiles 1945

Sophocles    wrote    Antigone

Sophocles    wrote    Electra

Sophocles    wrote    Oedipus Trilogy

Tennessee Williams    wrote    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Tennessee Williams    wrote    The Glass Menagerie New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

Tennessee Williams    wrote    The Night of the Iguana New York Drama Critics' Circle Award

Tennessee Williams    wrote    The Rose Tattoo Tony Award for best play

Tennessee Williams    wrote    A Streetcar Named Desire Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Tennessee Williams    wrote    Suddenly Last Summer

Thornton Wilder    wrote    Our Town 1938, Pulitzer Prize

Thornton Wilder    wrote    The Skin of Our Teeth 1943, Pulitzer Prize

Tom Stoppard    wrote    Arcadia

Tom Stoppard    wrote    The Invention Of Love

Tom Stoppard    wrote    Rosencrantz and Guildernstern Are Dead

William Inge    wrote    Picnic 1953, Pulitizer Prize

William Saroyan    wrote    The Time of Your Life 1940, Pulitzer Prize

William Shakespeare    wrote    All's Well That Ends Well

William Shakespeare    wrote    Antony and Cleopatra

William Shakespeare    wrote    As You Like It

William Shakespeare    wrote    The Comedy of Errors

William Shakespeare    wrote    Coriolanus

William Shakespeare    wrote    Cymbeline

William Shakespeare    wrote    Hamlet

William Shakespeare    wrote    Henry IV, Part I & II

William Shakespeare    wrote    Henry V

William Shakespeare    wrote    Henry VIII

William Shakespeare    wrote    Henry VI, Part I, II & III

William Shakespeare    wrote    Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare    wrote    King John

William Shakespeare    wrote    King Lear

William Shakespeare    wrote    Love's Labours Lost

William Shakespeare    wrote    Macbeth

William Shakespeare    wrote    Measure for Measure

William Shakespeare    wrote    The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare    wrote    The Merry Wives of Windsor

William Shakespeare    wrote    A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare    wrote    Much Ado About Nothing

William Shakespeare    wrote    Othello

William Shakespeare    wrote    Pericles, Prince of Tyre

William Shakespeare    wrote    Richard II

William Shakespeare    wrote    Richard III

William Shakespeare    wrote    Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare    wrote    Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare    wrote    The Tempest

William Shakespeare    wrote    Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare    wrote    Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare    wrote    Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare    wrote    Twelfth Night

William Shakespeare    wrote    Two Gentlemen of Verona

William Shakespeare    wrote    A Winter's Tale

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