Category
page 1Plays set in the 16th century
The Merchant of Venice
play by Shakespeare set in the Republic of Venice
Henry VIII
history play by Shakespeare

Don Carlos
play written by Friedrich Schiller

Mary Stuart
play by Friedrich Schiller

Hernani
play by Victor Hugo

Egmont
tragedy by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Götz von Berlichingen
play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The Duchess of Malfi
1623 tragedy by John Webster

Fiesco
tragedy written by Friedrich Schiller
Hai Rui Dismissed from Office
literary work

The Devil and the Good Lord
1951 play by Jean-Paul Sartre

Le roi s'amuse
play written by Victor Hugo
Torquato Tasso
verse play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sir Thomas More
Eponymous Elizabethan play by Anthony Munday

A Man for All Seasons
play by Robert Bolt (1960)

The Massacre at Paris
play by Christopher Marlowe
The White Devil
1612 play by John Webster

Master Olof
1878 play written by August Strindberg

Lucrèce Borgia
play by Victor Hugo

Thomas Lord Cromwell
play (probably mistakenly) attributed to Shakespeare
Lady Inger of Ostrat
play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen

Marie Tudor
play by Victor Hugo

The Cenci
1819 play by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nemesis
tragedy in four acts written by Alfred Nobel

Bussy D'Ambois
play written by George Chapman