Plays based on real people

play by William Shakespeare

ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus

play by Pierre Corneille

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.

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.

play written by George Bernard Shaw

tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

theatre play by Peter Shaffer (1979)

play by T. S. Eliot

1830 poetic drama by Alexander Pushkin

play written by Pierre Corneille

tragedy by Pierre Corneille written for the Théâtre du Marais in 1639

1975 film by Steve Binder, Peter H. Hunt

viennese pastiche operetta with music by Franz Schubert

defining work of Polish drama (1901)

play by Robert Bolt (1960)

five-act tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

1953 play written by Jean Anouilh

1977 play by Bernard Pomerance

play by Bertolt Brecht

play based on the diaries and emails of activist Rachel Corrie

play by Gabriele D'Annunzio with incidental music by Claude Debussy

play written by Maxwell Anderson

play by Victor Hugo

play written by Terrence McNally

play written by Austrian playwright Peter Handke (1967)

tragedy in four acts written by Alfred Nobel

play written by Joost van den Vondel

play by Huseyn Javid

Play written by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau

play written by Edward Albee

2012 play written by Miho Mosulishvili

play written by Nora Ephron

play by Pierre Corneille

10th-century drama by Hrotsvitha

play by Elizabeth Cary, Lady Falkland

short didactic radio play by Bertolt Brecht written in verse

play written by Howard Zinn