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| Date BCE | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| c.450–425 | Prometheus Bound | Aeschylus | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 442–441 | Antigone | Sophocles | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 431 | Medea | Euripides | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 430 | Oedipus Rex | Sophocles | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 423 | The Clouds | Aristophanes | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| c.420–410 | Electra | Sophocles | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 418 | Electra | Euripides | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 414 | The Birds | Aristophanes | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 411 | Lysistrata | Aristophanes | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| 406 | The Bacchae | Euripides | Greece | Drama | |||||||
| c.200 | Menaechmi (The Twin Brothers) | Plautus | Rome | Drama | |||||||
| c.50 | Media | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Rome | Drama | |||||||
| Hercules Furens | Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Rome | Drama | ||||||||
| Date CE | Title | Author | Country | Type | |||||||
| c.300 | The Vision of Vasavadatta | Bhasa | India | Drama | |||||||
| c.400 | The Recognition of Sakuntala | Kalidasa | India | Drama | |||||||
| c.1400 | Atsumori | Zeami Motokiyo | Japan | Drama | |||||||
| 1485 | Everyman | Anonymous | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1586 | The Spanish Tragedy | Thomas Kyd | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1587 | Tamburlaine the Great | Christopher Marlowe | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1588 | Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1592 | Edward II | Christopher Marlowe | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1594 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| c.1596 | Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| The Merchant of Venice | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1597 | Henry IV, Part 1 | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1598 | The Peony Pavilion | Tang Xianzu | China | Drama | |||||||
| 1599 | Julius Caesar | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1601 | Hamlet | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1603 | A Woman Killed with Kindness | Thomas Heywood | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1604 | Othello | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1604–05 | The Honest Whore | Thomas Dekker | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1606 | King Lear | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| Volpone | Ben Jonson | England | Drama | ||||||||
| c.1606 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| c.1608 | The Faithful Shepherdess | John Fletcher | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1610 | The Alchemist | Ben Jonson | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1611 | The Tempest | William Shakespeare | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1613 | The Duchess of Malfi | John Webster | England | Drama | |||||||
| c.1614 | The Sheep Well | Lope de Vega | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1633 | ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore | John Ford | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1635 | Life is a Dream | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1637 | Le Cid | Pierre Corneille | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1643 | The Mayor of Zalamea | Pedro Calderón de la Barca | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1662 | The School for Wives | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1664 | Tartuffe | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1666 | The Misanthrope | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1667 | Andromache | Jean Racine | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1670 | The Bourgeois Gentleman | Molière | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1675 | The Country Wife | William Wycherley | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1676 | The Plain Dealer | William Wycherley | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1677 | Phaedra | Jean Racine | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1700 | The Way of the World | William Congreve | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1728 | The Beggar’s Opera | John Gay | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1753 | The Mistress of the Inn | Carlo Goldoni | Italy | Drama | |||||||
| 1773 | She Stoops to Conquer | Oliver Goldsmith | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1775 | The Rivals | Richard Sheridan | England | Drama | |||||||
| The Barber of Seville | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | France | Drama | ||||||||
| c.1776 | Saul | Vittorio Alfieri | Italy | Drama | |||||||
| 1777 | The School for Scandal | Richard Sheridan | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1779 | Nathan the Wise | Gotthold Ephraim Lessing | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1784 | The Marriage of Figaro | Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1798 | Speed the Plough | Thomas Morton | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1804 | William Tell | Friedrich Schiller | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1808–32 | Faust | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1821 | Prince Friedrich of Homburg | Heinrich von Kleist | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1835 | Chatterton | Alfred de Vigny | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1836 | The Government Inspector | Nikolai Gogol | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| 1852 | Camille | Alexandre Dumas (fils) | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1860 | The Storm | Alexander Ostrovsky | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| 1867 | Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | |||||||
| 1879 | A Doll’s House | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | |||||||
| 1887 | The Father | August Strindberg | Sweden | Drama | |||||||
| 1889 | Miss Julie | August Strindberg | Sweden | Drama | |||||||
| 1891 | Hedda Gabler | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | |||||||
| 1892 | Pelleas and Melisande | Maurice Maeterlinck | Belgium | Drama | |||||||
| 1893 | The Master Builder | Henrik Ibsen | Norway | Drama | |||||||
| The Second Mrs. Tanqueray | Arthur Wing Pinero | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1894 | Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| 1895 | The Importance of Being Ernest | Oscar Wilde | England | Drama | |||||||
| 1896 | The Sea Gull | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| 1898 | Cyrano de Bergerac | Edmond Rostand | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1900 | Uncle Vanya | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| 1901 | The Three Sisters | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| The Dance of Death | August Strindberg | Sweden | Drama | ||||||||
| 1903 | The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov | Russia | Drama | |||||||
| Man and Superman | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | Drama | ||||||||
| 1904 | Riders to the Sea | John Millington Synge | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| 1905 | The Voysey Inheritance | Harley Granville-Barker | England | Drama | |||||||
| Major Barbara | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | Drama | ||||||||
| 1907 | The Playboy of the Western World | John Millington Synge | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| 1916 | Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| 1918 | The Breasts of Tiresias | Guillaume Apollinaire | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1921 | Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello | Italy | Drama | |||||||
| 1923 | Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| 1924 | Juno and the Paycock | Sean O'Casey | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| 1926 | Orpheus | Jean Cocteau | France | Drama | |||||||
| The Plough and the Stars | Eugene O’Casey | Ireland | Drama | ||||||||
| 1928 | The Three-Penny Opera | Bertolt Brecht | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| 1930 | Cakes and Ale | W. Somerset Maughham | England | Drama | |||||||
| Private Lives | Noel Coward | England | Drama | ||||||||
| 1933 | Blood Wedding | Federico Garcia Lorca | Spain | Drama | |||||||
| 1935 | Murder in the Cathedral | T.S. Eliot | England | Drama | |||||||
| Awake and Sing! | Clifford Odets | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1938 | Our Town | Thornton Wilder | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1939 | Mother Courage and her Children | Bertolt Brecht | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1944 | Antigone | Jean Anouilh | France | Drama | |||||||
| No Exit | Jean-Paul Sartre | France | Drama | ||||||||
| 1945 | The Caucasian Chalk Circle | Bertolt Brecht | Germany | Drama | |||||||
| The Madwoman of Chaillot | Jean Giraudoux | France | Drama | ||||||||
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1946 | The Iceman Cometh | Eugene O’Neill | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1947 | The Maids | Jean Genet | France | Drama | |||||||
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1947–57 | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | William Inge | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1948 | Ring Round the Moon | Jean Anouilh | France | Drama | |||||||
| 1949 | Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1950 | Come Back, Little Sheba | William Inge | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1952 | Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| The Chairs | Eugene Ionesco | France | Drama | ||||||||
| 1954 | Under Milk Wood | Dylan Thomas | Wales | Drama | |||||||
| 1956 | Look Back in Anger | John Osburn | England | Drama | |||||||
| Long Day’s Journey into Night | Eugene O’Neill | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| The Visit | Friedrich Dürrenmatt | Switzer. | Drama | ||||||||
| Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Tennessee Williams | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1957 | Endgame | Samuel Beckett | Ireland | Drama | |||||||
| 1958 | The Caretaker | Harold Pinter | England | Drama | |||||||
| The Hostage | Brendan Behan | Ireland | Drama | ||||||||
| 1959 | Archangels Don't Play Pinball | Dario Fo | Italy | Drama | |||||||
| 1962 | The Changeling | Thomas Middleton | England | Drama | |||||||
| Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf? | Edward Albee | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1963 | The Garden Party | Vaclav Havel | Czech. | Drama | |||||||
| The Crucible | Arthur Miller | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1967 | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | Tom Stoppard | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1968 | Les Belles-Soeurs | Michel Tremblay | Canada | Drama | |||||||
| The Lion in Winter | James Goldman | USA | Drama | ||||||||
| 1977 | The Gin Game | D.L. Coburn | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1978 | Buried Child | Sam Shepard | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1979 | Jitters | David French | Canada | Drama | |||||||
| 1982 | Noises Off | Michael Frayn | England | Drama | |||||||
| "Master Harold"...and the Boys | Athol Fugard | S. Africa | Drama | ||||||||
| 1984 | Glengarry Glen Ross | David Mamet | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1990 | Six Degrees of Separation | John Guare | USA | Drama | |||||||
| 1992 | Angels in America | Tony Kushner | USA | Drama | |||||||
| Oleanna | David Mamet | USA | Drama | ||||||||
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