Plays set in ancient Greece

Latin comic play by Terence

Epitrepontes (, translated as The Arbitration or The Litigants) is an Ancient Greek comedy, written c. 300 BCE by Menander. Only fragments of the play have been found, primarily on papyrus, yet it is one of Menander's best-preserved plays.

ancient Greek comedy by Menander

Iphigénie is a dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by the French playwright Jean Racine. It was first performed in the Orangerie in Versailles on August 18, 1674, as part of the fifth of the royal Divertissements de Versailles of Louis XIV to celebrate the conquest of Franche-Comté. Later in December it was triumphantly revived at the Hôtel de Bourgogne, home of the royal troupe of actors in Paris.

ancient Roman play by Plautus

Ancient Roman play by Plautus

tragedy by Seneca

Poenulus, also called The Little Carthaginian or The Little Punic Man, is a Latin comedic play for the early Roman theatre by Titus Maccius Plautus, probably written between 195 and 189 BC. The play is noteworthy for containing text in Carthaginian Punic, spoken by the character Hanno in the fifth act. Another remarkable feature is the sympathetic portrayal of the character of the Carthaginian Hanno at a time when only a few years previously the Romans had suffered huge losses in the 2nd Punic War fought against the Carthaginian general Hannibal (218–202 BC).

Asinaria ("The Comedy of Asses") is a comic play written in Latin by the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. In the play an Athenian gentleman, Demaenetus, tells his slave Libanus that he knows his son Argyrippus is having an affair with the prostitute Philaenium next door, and he asks him to try to find some money to pay for the affair. When by chance a stranger comes bringing money owed for some donkeys sold by Saurea, the steward of Demaenetus's wife, Libanus's fellow-slave Leonida pretends to be Saurea, and the two slaves trick the stranger into giving them the money. Argyrippus is giv

tragedy by Voltaire

tragedy by Seneca the Younger

Stichus is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. According to a notice transmitted with the play, Stichus was first performed in 200 BC, and was adapted from the play Adelphoe by Menander.

Ancient Roman play by Plautus

Cistellaria, translated as The Casket, is a comedic Latin play of the late 3rd century BC by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. The story, set in the Greek town of Sicyon, concerns a girl called Selenium who was exposed as a baby and brought up by a courtesan called Melaenis. By a happy chance it is discovered that her birth mother, married to a senator Demipho, lives next door, enabling her to marry the young man Alcesimarchus who loves her.

Trinummus is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. It is called ("The Three Coins") because in the play an imposter () is paid three coins to dress up as a messenger from Syria. According to the prologue, the play is adapted from one called Thesaurus ("The Treasure") by the Greek playwright Philemon.

Ancient Roman play by Plautus

Epidicus is an ancient Roman comedy written by Plautus in the 3rd or 2nd century BC. It is said to have been one of Plautus's favorite works. Epidicus is the name of the main character, who is a slave. The plot takes many turns as Epidicus tries to please his master's son, Stratippocles.

tragedy by Jean Racine

Truculentus is a comedic Latin play by the early Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus. Following the relationships between prostitutes and their customers, it contains perhaps Plautus's most cynical depiction of human nature in comparison with his other surviving plays.

tragedy by Jean Racine

ancient Greek comedy by Menander

classical Meitei language Greek tragedy

fragmentary tragedy by Euripides

Ancient Roman play by Plautus

play by Euripides

thumb|Papyrus of the Sikyonioi found at Medinet-el-Ghoran, 3rd Century BC. Institute of Papyrology of Sorbonne University. thumb|right|The ancient theatre of Sikyon

thumb|Title page (1651, 2nd edition)

play by Jean Giraudoux

verse drama in blank verse by the Romantic writers Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

tragedy by Euripides

tragedy written by Franz Grillparzer

a play by Zoran Stefanović

lost tragedy by Euripides

1938 musical by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart

thumb|Voltaire Mérope 1744 thumb|Jean-Michel Moreau: Illustration of Mérope 1783 Mérope (original French title: La Mérope Française) is a tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. The text is a reworking by Voltaire of the Italian tragedy Merope (1713) by Scipione Maffei, dating from 1736/1737. The play premiered in 1743 and first appeared in print in 1744.

Misoumenos (), translated as The Hated Man, is an Ancient Greek comedy by Menander (342/41 – 292/91 BC). Once considered lost, fragments of more than 400 verses of the play have been found. However, most of these are seriously damaged, making it difficult to reconstruct the plot of the play. Separate lines from the prologue also survived by being quoted by later writers.

lost tragedy by Euripides