The Plays & Dramas Collection brings together the masterpieces of the stage — the tragedies, comedies, and dramas that have been performed and read for centuries. It features the work of William Shakespeare, Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, and the great dramatists of the ancient and modern world.
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- Romeo and JulietWilliam Shakespeare
- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare
- Love's Labour's LostWilliam Shakespeare
- As You Like ItWilliam Shakespeare
- A Midsummer Night's DreamWilliam Shakespeare
- A Doll's House: a playHenrik Ibsen
- The Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde
- The Tragical History of Doctor FaustusChristopher Marlowe
- HamletWilliam Shakespeare
- Plays by Susan Glaspell Susan Glaspell
- MacbethWilliam Shakespeare
- Riders to the SeaJ. M. Synge
- Bussy D’AmboisGeorge Chapman
- Plays of SophoclesSophocles
- Coleridge on Shakespeare and JonsonSamuel Taylor Coleridge
- King LearWilliam Shakespeare
- Shakespearean TragedyA. C. Bradley
- Much Ado about NothingWilliam Shakespeare
- The Merchant of VeniceWilliam Shakespeare
- An Enemy of the PeopleHenrik Ibsen
- Julius CaesarWilliam Shakespeare
- The AlchemistBen Jonson
- R.U.R.Karel Čapek
- Lady Windermere's FanOscar Wilde
- Cyrano de BergeracEdmond Rostand
- JeremiahStefan Zweig
- Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen
- Pride and Prejudice: A PlayMary Steele MacKaye
- Alice in Wonderland: A PlayAlice Gerstenberg
- OthelloWilliam Shakespeare
- Beautiful Stories from ShakespeareE. Nesbit
- Semiramis, and Other PlaysOlive Tilford Dargan
- The Way of the WorldWilliam Congreve
- Twelfth NightWilliam Shakespeare
- Uncle VanyaAnton Chekhov
- The Duchess of MalfiJohn Webster
- A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Thomas PriorAnonymous
- VolponeBen Jonson
- The ‘Mind the Paint’ GirlArthur Wing Pinero
- Arms and the ManBernard Shaw
- An Ideal HusbandOscar Wilde
- Four Plays of Gil VicenteGil Vicente
- The Trojan WomenEuripides
- The Unicorn from the Stars and Other PlaysW. B. Yeats and Lady Gregory
- The Tragedies of SenecaSeneca
- Montaigne and ShakspereJ. M. Robertson
- She Stoops to ConquerOliver Goldsmith
- The BacchaeEuripides
- A Woman of No ImportanceOscar Wilde
- The StrawEugene O’Neill
- A Book of BurlesquesH. L. Mencken
- Antony and CleopatraWilliam Shakespeare
- The School for ScandalRichard Brinsley Sheridan
- Clair de LuneMichael Strange
- The Arrow-MakerMary Austin
- A Lecture on HeadsGeorge Alexander Stevens
- The New York IdeaLangdon Mitchell
- Mrs. Warren's ProfessionBernard Shaw
- Tamburlaine the Great — Part 1Christopher Marlowe
- JusticeJohn Galsworthy
- The Complete Plays of Gilbert and SullivanArthur Sullivan
- The Post OfficeRabindranath Tagore
- Every Man in His HumourBen Jonson
- Greek Tragedy Gilbert Norwood
- The Jew of MaltaChristopher Marlowe
- The CloudsAristophanes
- William Shakespeare: An EssayVictor Hugo
- The BirdsAristophanes
- A Short View of the Immorality of the English Stage Jeremy Collier
- The Comedies of PlautusPlautus
- Shakespeare’s First FolioWilliam Shakespeare
- The Playboy of the Western WorldJ. M. Synge
- The Blue BirdMaurice Maeterlinck
- 1601Mark Twain
- Robert Greene: Six Plays Robert Greene
- The Buddha: A DramaPaul Carus
- The Spanish TragedyThomas Kyd
- Folk-lore of ShakespeareT. F. Thiselton-Dyer
- Back to MethuselahBernard Shaw
- The Lady from the Sea Henrik Ibsen
- Dolly Reforming HerselfHenry Arthur Jones
- The FrogsAristophanes
- Life Is a DreamPedro Calderón de la Barca
- Dramatic TechniqueGeorge Pierce Baker
- Three PlaysLuigi Pirandello
- ApocolocyntosisSeneca
- Major BarbaraBernard Shaw
- The Tragedy of MacbethWilliam Shakespeare
- When the Movies Were YoungLinda Arvidson
- Vera; or, The NihilistsOscar Wilde
- Iconoclasts: A Book of DramatistsJames Huneker
- Plays by Thomas DekkerThomas Dekker
- Play-MakingWilliam Archer
- Geography and PlaysGertrude Stein
- The House of AtreusAeschylus
- Tales from ShakespeareCharles Lamb
- The Nō Plays of JapanArthur Waley
- Nil DarpanDinabandhu Mitra
- Caesar and CleopatraBernard Shaw
- Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral DramaW. W. Greg
- The Chinese TheaterA. E. Zucker
- The Devil Is an AssBen Jonson
- The Art of the Moving PictureVachel Lindsay
- Plays by August StrindbergAugust Strindberg
- ComusJohn Milton
- Miss Julia, Creditors and Other Plays August Strindberg
- Vondel’s LuciferJoost van den Vondel
- Hay Fever Noël Coward
- The TempestWilliam Shakespeare
- The Beggar’s Opera John Gay
- Writing the PhotoplayJ. Berg Esenwein and Arthur Leeds
- The Cid Pierre Corneille
- Four Plays of AeschylusAeschylus
- A Christmas Carol: The PlayC. Z. Barnett
- Epicoene, or The Silent Woman Ben Jonson
- When We Dead Awaken Henrik Ibsen
- Marionettes, Masks and ShadowsWinifred H. Mills and Louise M. Dunn
- Alcestis Euripides
- Plays by August Strindberg, Third SeriesAugust Strindberg
- Four Plays by William WycherleyWilliam Wycherley
- The RivalsRichard Brinsley Sheridan
- The Tragedies of Aeschylus Aeschylus
- The Lyrical Dramas of Aeschylus Aeschylus
- Heartbreak HouseBernard Shaw
- The Admirable CrichtonJ. M. Barrie
- ChitraRabindranath Tagore
- CandidaBernard Shaw
- CatoJoseph Addison
- The Hairy ApeEugene O’Neill
- Shakspere and MontaigneJacob Feis
- The Melting-Pot Israel Zangwill
- Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw
- The Countess Cathleen W. B. Yeats
- King Henry VWilliam Shakespeare
- The MiserMolière
- The Theory of the Theatre Clayton Hamilton
- The Master BuilderHenrik Ibsen
- Love for LoveWilliam Congreve
- Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysWilliam Hazlitt
- Ellen Terry: The Story of My LifeEllen Terry
- The Doctor’s DilemmaBernard Shaw
- Peace Aristophanes
- Hippolytus and The Bacchae Euripides
- Sir Thomas More William Shakespeare
- King Henry IV, Part 1William Shakespeare
- The AcharniansAristophanes
- Apu Ollantay Anonymous
- Every Man out of His HumourBen Jonson
- Seven Short Plays Lady Gregory
- The Greek Theater and Its Drama Roy C. Flickinger
- The Two Noble Kinsmen William Shakespeare and John Fletcher
- The Two Noble Kinsmen John Fletcher and William Shakespeare
- Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599–1609 Bernard Beckerman
- The Dark Lady of the SonnetsBernard Shaw
- Edward III William Shakespeare
- Arden of Feversham Anonymous
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre William Shakespeare
- The Wild DuckHenrik Ibsen
- You Never Can TellBernard Shaw
- The Silver Box John Galsworthy
- Love and Intrigue Friedrich Schiller
- Rachel Angelina Weld Grimké
- Chushingura Takeda Izumo
- In the Shadow of the Glen J. M. Synge
- MisallianceBernard Shaw
- All for Love John Dryden
- Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall
- Iphigenia in Tauris Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Original Plays: Second Series W. S. Gilbert
- Our American Cousin Tom Taylor
- War Brides Marion Craig Wentworth
- The Electra of Euripides Euripides
- The Fanatics Miles Malleson
- Old Scrooge Charles A. Scott
- Measure for MeasureWilliam Shakespeare
- SaloméOscar Wilde
- The Road to Damascus August Strindberg
- Dear Brutus J. M. Barrie
- Iphigenia in TaurisEuripides
- Little Eyolf Henrik Ibsen
- Aria da Capo Edna St. Vincent Millay
- The Piccolomini Friedrich Schiller
- Recently Recovered Lost Tudor Plays John S. Farmer
- Rosmersholm Henrik Ibsen
- Shakespeare’s Roman Plays and Their Background M. W. MacCallum
- A Book of the Play Dutton Cook
- Getting Married George Bernard Shaw
- The Captivi and the Mostellaria Plautus
- Second Plays A. A. Milne
- The Lady of Lyons Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage Christopher Marlowe
- All's Well That Ends WellWilliam Shakespeare
- John Bull’s Other Island George Bernard Shaw
- Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy
- King Arthur’s Socks and Other Village Plays Floyd Dell
- The White Devil John Webster
- Cynthia’s Revels Ben Jonson
- The Duchess of PaduaOscar Wilde
- King Richard IIIWilliam Shakespeare
- The Drama Henry Irving
- A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte CourtisaneOscar Wilde
- Anna Christie Eugene O’Neill
- The Fatal Dowry Philip Massinger
- Troilus and CressidaWilliam Shakespeare
- Wappin’ Wharf Charles S. Brooks
- The Devil’s Disciple George Bernard Shaw
- Exiles James Joyce
- What Every Woman Knows J. M. Barrie
- Strife John Galsworthy
- Thomas Heywood: Plays Thomas Heywood
- Rip Van Winkle: A Play Charles Burke
- L’AiglonEdmond Rostand
- Edward the Second Christopher Marlowe
- Bartholomew Fair Ben Jonson
- Locrine Anonymous
- Pillars of Society Henrik Ibsen
- Sejanus: His Fall Ben Jonson
- The King of the Dark Chamber Rabindranath Tagore
- Specimens of Greek Tragedy Aeschylus and Sophocles
- The Man of DestinyBernard Shaw
- Fiesco Friedrich Schiller
- Captain Brassbound’s Conversion George Bernard Shaw
- First Plays A. A. Milne
- Theatrical and Circus Life John J. Jennings
- Four Mystery Plays Rudolf Steiner
- King Henry VI, Part 1William Shakespeare
- Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature August Wilhelm Schlegel
- The Scarlet Stigma James Edgar Smith
- Our Stage and Its Critics E. F. Spence
- Sakoontala Kālidāsa
- Francesca da Rimini George Henry Boker
- The First and the Last John Galsworthy
- Minna von Barnhelm Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
- The Vortex Noël Coward
- Amphitryon Molière
- The Taming of the ShrewWilliam Shakespeare
- The Comedies of Richard Steele Richard Steele
- Continental Stagecraft Kenneth Macgowan
- The Octoroon Dion Boucicault
- Plays of Henley and StevensonWilliam Ernest Henley
- The Beaux’ Stratagem George Farquhar
- The Land of Heart’s Desire W. B. Yeats
- The Recruiting Officer George Farquhar
- The Great Adventure Arnold Bennett
- Mucedorus Anonymous
- The False One Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
- Titus AndronicusWilliam Shakespeare
- The English Stage Augustin Filon
- The Follies of a Day Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
- Thomas Lord Cromwell Anonymous
- Loyalties John Galsworthy
- The Man from Home Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson
- A Blot in the ‘Scutcheon Robert Browning
- Master Olof August Strindberg
- King Henry IV, Part 2William Shakespeare
- Queen Mary and Harold Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Becket and Other Plays Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Daddy Long-Legs: A Comedy in Four Acts Jean Webster
- Three Wonder Plays Lady Gregory
- Wallenstein’s Camp Friedrich Schiller
- The Old BachelorWilliam Congreve
- Augustus Does His Bit George Bernard Shaw
- How He Lied to Her Husband George Bernard Shaw
- Punch and Judy W. J. Judd
- A Comedy of Marriage and Musotte Guy de Maupassant
- Gammer Gurton’s Needle Anonymous
- Comic Tragedies Louisa May Alcott
- King Henry VIIIWilliam Shakespeare
- CymbelineWilliam Shakespeare
- King Henry VI, Part 2William Shakespeare
- Irish Plays and Playwrights Cornelius Weygandt
- The Foundations John Galsworthy
- The Little Dream John Galsworthy
- King Richard IIWilliam Shakespeare
- Miss Civilization Richard Harding Davis
- Stage Confidences Clara Morris
- The Spook Sonata and Other Plays August Strindberg
- Two Men of Sandy Bar Bret Harte
- Curiosities of the American Stage Laurence Hutton
- Euripides and His Age Gilbert Murray
- Shakespeare and the Modern Stage Sidney Lee
- Shakespeare in Norway Martin B. Ruud
- The Philanderer George Bernard Shaw
- GhostsHenrik Ibsen
- Great Catherine George Bernard Shaw
- The Little Man John Galsworthy
- The Maid’s Tragedy Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
- A Book About the Theater Brander Matthews
- Washington Square Plays Washington Square Players
- Three Dramas Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- The Lamp and the Bell Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Makers of Madness Hermann Hagedorn
- The Merry Wives of WindsorWilliam Shakespeare
- Pandora’s Box Frank Wedekind
- The Shakespeare-Expositor Thomas Keightley
- The Spanish Curate John Fletcher
- The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman Molière
- Belinda A. A. Milne
- Chantecler Edmond Rostand
- The Acorn-Planter Jack London
- Hobson’s Choice Harold Brighouse
- Mr. Faust Arthur Davison Ficke
- A King and No King Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
- Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist Richard G. Moulton
- Certain Noble Plays of Japan Ezra Pound
- George Bernard Shaw: His Plays H. L. Mencken
- Rule a Wife and Have a Wife John Fletcher
- The King’s Threshold and On Baile’s Strand W. B. Yeats
- Ibsen’s Early Plays Henrik Ibsen
- The Learned Women Molière
- Philaster Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
- The Lonely Way, Intermezzo, Countess Mizzie Arthur Schnitzler
- The Poetaster Ben Jonson
- The Stranger August von Kotzebue
- A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent
- The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom William Wells Brown
- The Gamester Edward Moore
- This Was a Man Noël Coward
- Ludus Coventriae J. O. Halliwell
- Magic G. K. Chesterton
- Massacre at ParisChristopher Marlowe
- Plays by Alexander Ostrovsky Alexander Ostrovsky
- PhiloktetesSophocles
- The Daughter of Heaven Pierre Loti and Judith Gautier
- Four Short Plays John Galsworthy
- Mary Tudor, Marion de Lorme and Esmeralda Victor Hugo
- The Laws of Candy Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
- Six Plays Florence Henrietta Darwin
- The White Christmas and Other Merry Christmas Plays Walter Ben Hare
- Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Tragedy Ashley H. Thorndike
- The Dramatic Values in Plautus Wilton W. Blancké
- Joy John Galsworthy
- Arthur Laurence Binyon
- Fanny’s First Play George Bernard Shaw
- The Scarecrow Percy MacKaye
- Sir John Oldcastle Anthony Munday
- A Bit O’ Love John Galsworthy
- Two Dyaloges Desiderius Erasmus
- Beyond the Horizon Eugene O’Neill
- Plays of Sir John Vanbrugh, Volume One John Vanbrugh
- The Skin Game John Galsworthy
- The Puritan Widow Thomas Middleton
- Judith Arnold Bennett
- Overruled George Bernard Shaw
- Three Plays by Friedrich Hebbel Friedrich Hebbel
- The Two Lovers of Heaven Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Plays of Gods and Men Lord Dunsany
- Shakespeare in the Theatre William Poel
- The Andrian Terence
- The Naturewoman Upton Sinclair
- The Wolves and the Lamb William Makepeace Thackeray
- The Saint’s Tragedy Charles Kingsley
- The Bride of Messina Friedrich Schiller
- Within the LawMarvin Dana
- Shakespeare and the Stage Maurice Jonas
- Count Alarcos Benjamin Disraeli
- Waste Harley Granville-Barker
- The Jewel Merchants James Branch Cabell
- The Cycle of Spring Rabindranath Tagore
- The Jazz Singer Samson Raphaelson
- The Old English Dramatists James Russell Lowell
- Three Plays by Brieux, with a Preface by Shaw Eugène Brieux
- The Noble Spanish Soldier Thomas Dekker
- The A-B-C of Motion Pictures Robert E. Welsh
- Numantia Miguel de Cervantes
- The Growth of English Drama Arnold Wynne
- Hassan James Elroy Flecker
- Thomas Otway: Best Plays Thomas Otway
- The Hunchback James Sheridan Knowles
- The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet George Bernard Shaw
- The Güegüence Daniel G. Brinton
- The Piper Josephine Preston Peabody
- The Saxons Edwin Davies Schoonmaker
- The Machine Upton Sinclair
- Abraham Lincoln: A Play John Drinkwater
- The Inca of Perusalem George Bernard Shaw
- King JohnWilliam Shakespeare
- Touch and Go D. H. Lawrence
- The Climbers Clyde Fitch
- Fair Em Anonymous
- Her Own Way Clyde Fitch
- A Trip to Scarborough and The Critic Richard Brinsley Sheridan
- The Fugitive John Galsworthy
- The Title Arnold Bennett
- The Master of Mrs. Chilvers Jerome K. Jerome
- The Moth and the Flame Clyde Fitch
- Original Plays: First Series W. S. Gilbert
- Tragedies of Sex Frank Wedekind
- The Merry Devil of Edmonton Anonymous
- The Mob John Galsworthy
- The Gentle Shepherd Allan Ramsay
- The Girl with the Green Eyes Clyde Fitch
- The Miracle of Saint Anthony Maurice Maeterlinck
- The Return of Peter Grimm David Belasco
- The Two Gentlemen of VeronaWilliam Shakespeare
- The Pigeon John Galsworthy
- De Turkey and de Law Zora Neale Hurston
- A Kiss for Cinderella J. M. Barrie
- The Second Mrs. Tanqueray Arthur Wing Pinero
- The Game of Chess Kenneth Sawyer Goodman
- Our Irish Theatre Lady Gregory
- The Case of Mrs. Clive Catherine Clive
- Monsieur de Pourceaugnac Molière
- And So Ad Infinitum (The Insect Play) Karel and Josef Čapek
- The Double-DealerWilliam Congreve
- Eight Dramas of Calderón Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- Paul Kauvar Steele MacKaye
- The Stepmother Honoré de Balzac
- That Marvel — The Movie Edward S. Van Zile
- Alice Sit-by-the-Fire J. M. Barrie
- The London Prodigal Anonymous
- Playwrights on Playmaking Brander Matthews
- Shadows of the Stage William Winter
- Chastelard Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The Eldest Son, The Little Dream, Justice John Galsworthy
- O’Flaherty V.C. George Bernard Shaw
- Echoes of the War J. M. Barrie
- Five Plays Lord Dunsany
- The Age of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The Soul of the Moving Picture Walter Bloem
- East of Suez W. Somerset Maugham
- A Yorkshire Tragedy Thomas Middleton
- Votes for Women Elizabeth Robins
- Cavalleria Rusticana Pietro Mascagni
- Fashions for Men and The Swan Ferenc Molnár
- Karma Algernon Blackwood
- The ContrastRoyall Tyler
- The Fourteenth of July, and Danton Romain Rolland
- Mary Rose J. M. Barrie
- Mordred and Hildebrand Wilfred Campbell
- The Circle W. Somerset Maugham
- Demetrius Friedrich Schiller
- The Winter's TaleWilliam Shakespeare
- Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress George Bernard Shaw
- The Comedy of ErrorsWilliam Shakespeare
- New Comedies Lady Gregory
- The Virgin of the Sun August von Kotzebue
- The Pot Boiler Upton Sinclair
- A Fairy Tale in Two Acts William Shakespeare
- Jeppe on the Hill Ludvig Holberg
- Three Comedies Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- Four Short Plays Lady Bell
- The Hour-Glass W. B. Yeats
- The Eldest Son John Galsworthy
- The Devil Ferenc Molnár
- Fenris, the Wolf Percy MacKaye
- The First Man Eugene O’Neill
- The School for Husbands Molière
- The Comedies of Terence Terence
- Shenandoah Bronson Howard
- Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce William Mountfort
- Tannhäuser Aleister Crowley
- The Purgatory of St. Patrick Pedro Calderón de la Barca
- The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith Arthur Wing Pinero
- The Coming of Peace Gerhart Hauptmann
- Earth-Spirit Frank Wedekind
- Angels and Ministers Laurence Housman
- I’ll Leave It to You Noël Coward
- Pelléas and Mélisande and Other Plays Maurice Maeterlinck
- There Are Crimes and Crimes August Strindberg
- Windows John Galsworthy
- Bimbo, the Pirate Booth Tarkington
- Household Gods Aleister Crowley
- King Henry VI, Part 3William Shakespeare
- Liliom Ferenc Molnár
- The Well of the SaintsJ. M. Synge
- CoriolanusWilliam Shakespeare
- Timon of AthensWilliam Shakespeare
- The Tinker's WeddingJ. M. Synge
- If: A Play in Four ActsLord Dunsany