Plays based on the Old Testament

Athalie (, sometimes translated Athalia) is a 1691 play, the final tragedy of Jean Racine, and has been described as the masterpiece of "one of the greatest literary artists known" and the "ripest work" of Racine's genius. Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve deemed it comparable to Oedipus Rex in beauty, with "the true God added." August Wilhelm Schlegel thought Athalie to be "animated by divine breath"; other critics have regarded the poetics of drama in the play to be superior to those of Aristotle.

tragedy by John Milton

French play by Jean Racine

12th-century liturgical drama written in Medieval French (with Latin choral texts and stage directions)

medieval Latin liturgical dramas

mystery play series from the 14th to the 16th centuries

play by Archibald MacLeish