Plays based on other plays

1928 musical play by Bertolt Brecht; adapted from John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera The Beggar's Opera with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling

play by Pierre Corneille

theatre play by Peter Shaffer (1979)

thumb|right|An early 15th century French manuscript depicts a scene in Hecyra, from the collection of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law) is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Terence. The story concerns a young man, Pamphilus, who has a girlfriend, the courtesan Bacchis, but is forced by his father to marry a neighbour's daughter Philumena. Before the wedding took place Philumena was raped by an unknown man. When a baby is born, Pamphilus at first disowns Philumena, but in the end it turns out that he himself is the father of the baby and husband and wife

Latin comic play by Terence

Latin comic play by Terence

Ancient Roman play by Plautus

play by Berthold Brecht

play by Bruce Norris

2012 comedy play by Christopher Durang