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Macbeth
upright=1.2|thumb|A poster for a American production of Macbeth, starring Thomas W. Keene. Depicted, counter-clockwise from top-left, are: Macbeth and Banquo meeting the witches, the aftermath of the murder of Duncan, Banquo's ghost, Macbeth dueling Macduff, and Macbeth.
King Lear
tragedy by William Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night's Dream
play by William Shakespeare
Oedipus Rex
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
Richard III
Shakespearean history play
The Winter's Tale
play by Shakespeare
Henry V
play by Shakespeare
Oedipus at Colonus
ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
The Bacchae
ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides
Love's Labour's Lost
comedy play by William Shakespeare
Richard II
history play by William Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 1
play by Shakespeare
Cymbeline
thumb|right|302x302px|Imogen (Cymbeline)|Imogen in her bedchamber in Act II, scene ii, when Iachimo witnesses the mole under her breast. Painting by [[Wilhelm Ferdinand Souchon, 1872]] Cymbeline (), also known as The Tragedie of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain () and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early historical Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although it is listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify Cymbeline as a romance or even a comedy. Like Othello and '
Abhigyanashakuntalam
Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa
King John
play by Shakespeare
Henry VIII
history play by Shakespeare
Henry IV, Part 2
play by Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 1
play by Shakespeare
Henry VI, Part 2
play by Shakespeare
The King and I
1951 musical by the team of composer Richard Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II
Edward II
play by Christopher Marlowe
Henry VI
collection of Shakespearian plays
Thamos, King of Egypt
play by Tobias Philipp, baron von Gebler, for which, between 1773 and 1780, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart wrote incidental music, K. 345/336a, of an operatic character
Gorboduc
English play from 1561
The Pretenders
play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen
The Lion in Winter
play written by James Goldman
Mithridate
tragedy by Jean Racine
Edmund Ironside
play, attributed by some to Shakespeare
Vortigern and Rowena
play written by William Henry Ireland
Die Verurteilung des Lukullus
opera by Paul Dessau
The Jewess of Toledo
tragedy written by Franz Grillparzer
Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery
play written by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
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