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Plays set in the 19th century

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A Doll's House
1879 play by Henrik Ibsen
Woyzeck
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.
Miss Julie
play written by A. Strindberg
Woe from Wit
Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse
The Tragedy of Man
play written by Imre Madách
The Father
naturalistic tragedy written by August Strindberg
The Storm
play by Alexander Ostrovsky
The Wedding
defining work of Polish drama (1901)
The Weavers
1892 German play by Gerhart Hauptmann
Creditors
play written by A. Strindberg
Arcadia
play by Tom Stoppard
The Elephant Man
1977 play by Bernard Pomerance
Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812
musical adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace
The Undivine Comedy
1835 play by Polish Romantic poet Zygmunt Krasiński
Translations
play written by Brian Friel
The Morality of Mrs. Dulska
play by Gabriela Zapolska
Kaspar
play written by Austrian playwright Peter Handke (1967)
L'Aigle à deux têtes
play written by Jean Cocteau
Nil-Darpan Natok
play by Dinabandhu Mitra
Koštana
Koštana (Serbian Cyrillic: Коштана) is a play written by Borisav Stanković. It was first published in Belgrade in 1902. Set in Stanković's native Vranje in southern Serbia, it features themes of Serbian folklore and patriarchal customs in the late nineteenth century.
Madame Sans-Gêne (play)
Play written by Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau
The Fruits of Enlightenment
1890 play written by Leo Tolstoy
Flirtation
play written by Arthur Schnitzler
Anatol
play by Arthur Schnitzler
Easter
symbolic religious drama