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Julius Caesar
play by William Shakespeare
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The Persians
ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus
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Le Cid
play by Pierre Corneille
Woyzeck
Woyzeck () is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837. The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil Franzos, and was first performed at the Residence Theatre in Munich on 8 November 1913.
Mālavikāgnimitram
The Mālavikāgnimitram (Sanskrit: मालविकाग्निमित्रम्, translation : Mālavikā and Agnimitra) is a Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa. Based on some events of the reign of Pushyamitra Shunga, it is his first play.
Saint Joan
play written by George Bernard Shaw
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Egmont
tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Amadeus
theatre play by Peter Shaffer (1979)
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Murder in the Cathedral
play by T. S. Eliot
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Mozart and Salieri
1830 poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin
Horace
play written by Pierre Corneille
Cinna
tragedy by Pierre Corneille written for the Théâtre du Marais in 1639
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Give 'em Hell
1975 film by Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt
Das Dreimäderlhaus
viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert
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The Wedding
defining work of Polish drama (1901)
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A Man for All Seasons
play by Robert Bolt (1960)
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Clavigo
five-act tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Lark
1953 play written by Jean Anouilh
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The Elephant Man
1977 play by Bernard Pomerance
Saint Joan of the Stockyards
play by Bertolt Brecht
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My Name Is Rachel Corrie
play based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie
Le martyre de Saint Sébastien
play by Gabriele D'Annunzio with incidental music by Claude Debussy
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Joan of Lorraine
play written by Maxwell Anderson
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Lucrèce Borgia
play by Victor Hugo
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Master Class
play written by Terrence McNally
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Kaspar
play written by Austrian playwright Peter Handke (1967)
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Nemesis
tragedy in four acts written by Alfred Nobel
Gijsbrecht van Aemstel
play written by Joost van den Vondel
Topal Teymur
play by Huseyn Javid
Madame Sans-Gêne (play)
Play written by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau
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The Death of Bessie Smith
play written by Edward Albee
My Redbreast
2012 play written by Miho Mosulishvili
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Lucky Guy
play written by Nora Ephron
The Death of Pompey
play by Pierre Corneille
Dulcitius
10th-century drama by Hrotsvitha
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The Tragedy of Mariam
play by Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland
The Trial of Lucullus
short didactic radio play by Bertolt Brecht written in verse
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Marx in Soho
play written by Howard Zinn