Plays set in ancient Rome

play by William Shakespeare

tragedy by William Shakespeare

thumb|John Philip Kemble as Coriolanus by [[Thomas Lawrence, 1798]]

play by Shakespeare

play written by Pierre Corneille

tragedy by Miguel de Cervantes

thumb|300px|right|Painting depicting the martyrdom of Polyeuctus, from the Menologion of Basil II (c. 1000 AD)

Nicomède is a tragedy by French dramatist Pierre Corneille, first performed in 1651.

play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Cornish manuscript

thumb|right|Playbill announcing (in Russian and Polish) the 1913 premiere of Irydion by Zygmunt Krasiński at Teatr Polski in Warsaw Irydion is a drama written by Polish poet Zygmunt Krasiński. He began work on it in 1832 and published it in 1836. It debuted on stage in 1913 at Teatr Polski in Warsaw.

play by George Bernard Shaw

play by Pierre Corneille