Theater

1950s Harlem

early 19th-century England; present day

WWII USA

1950s US South

1930s-2000s Hollywood

WWII Soviet Union

1950s Harlem

1960s Harlem

ca. 1930 US South (describes a lynching)

1959, 2009 Chicago (during and after the events of Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun)

1941 Copenhagen, World War II

turn of the century small town USA

1960s London

Depression-era USA

1950s Pittsburgh

set in present-day Harlem, 1928, and 1860 (prequel to Othello)

Depression-era Memphis

1905 New York City

late-19th through early 20th century England, the river Styx

early 1900s New Orleans, Los Angeles (life of Jelly Roll Morton, musical)

1970s Pittsburgh

1910s Pittsburgh, "Great Migration"

1980s Pittsburgh

1927 Chicago

1860-1912 England

1960s London

turn-of-the-century Poland

1968 Memphis (Martin Luther King Jr.)

ca. 1930 Florida

1930s Western Australia, Moore River Native Settlement (reservation for Aboriginal Australians)

1930s Southern plantation, looking back to the Antebellum South

1981 Rwanda

1954 South Carolina (Brown v. Board of Education case)

1936 Pittsburgh

early 1900s US South

1950s Chicago

1945 Memphis, Tennessee

1948 Pittsburgh

1960s New York City

1917 New Orleans (musical)

turn-of-the-century China

early 20th-century US South

1968 Pittsburgh

late 19th- early 20th-century Namibia

1950s Detroit

1964 Harlem

1940s Los Angeles (Zoot Suit Riots)

US Civil War

mid 19th-century USA

US Civil War

1839-1841 ocean off of Cuba, Long Island

early 19th-century England; present day

1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War

early 19th-century Europe

early 19th-century England

late 19th-century USA (musical)

early 19th-century Scottish Highlands

early to mid 19th-century England

turn of the century small town USA

19th-century Scandinavia

1871 Paris Commune

late 19th-century England

late 19th-century Norway

late 19th-century England, Europe

19th-century US South (story of young Frederick Douglass)

19th-century Sweden

Regency-era England

late 19th-century Kansas, all-Black frontier town

early 19th-century USA, Haiti, and France

1890s England

Presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

late 19th-century England

1831 Virginia plantation (Nat Turner Rebellion, time travel)

late 19th-century New York

late-19th through early 20th century England, the river Styx

late 19th-century France

early 19th-century French prison, French Revolution (play-within-a-play)

mid 19th-century USA

Gilded Age New York (basis for Hello, Dolly!; also see Wilder's The Merchant of Yonkers)

1860-1912 England

19th century Europe

turn-of-the-century Poland

19th-century US Southern plantation (play-within-a-play taking place in the present)

Victorian era through the present (fantasy world)

early 19th-century England

1898 Cuban War of Independence

post-Civil War southern plantation

late 19th-century Congo

late 19th-century England

late 19th-century England

a World War II army base in the US South

19th-century Russia

turn-of-the-century China

various time periods, starting with the Garden of Eden

19th-century Irish village

19th-century Zulu Kingdom (adaptation of Macbeth)

mid 19th-century Europe

late 19th-century London

late 19th- early 20th-century Namibia

19th-century Poland

early 19th-century New England

late 19th-century England

mid 19th-century Germany

late 19th-century Europe

French Revolution

late 18th-century Vienna

American Revolution

1730s Montreal

18th-century England

early 18th-century England

18th-century London

1780s London

American Revolution, early 20th century

American Revolution, England

18th-century England

18th-century England

late 18th-century England

American Revolution

late 18th to early 19th-century England

late 18th-century Napoleonic wars

18th-century England and high seas

ca. 1800 Mount Vernon, VA

Georgian London

18th-century India

South Pacific, Kamchatka, Antarctica, high seas

late 18th-century London

early 18th-century England

early 18th-century Shrewsbury

18th-century France

18th-century Bath

1715 Jacobite Rising, Scotland

18th-century England

18th-century England

18th-century Madagascar

late 18th-century Mysore (India)

18th-century England

late 18th-century Haiti

various time periods, starting with the Garden of Eden

turn of the 18th century England

mid 17th-century English Civil War

17th-century Persia

early 17th-century Indonesia (Amboyna massacre)

17th-century Rome

mid 17th-century China and Japan (puppet play)

17th-century England

late 16th- to early 17th-century Russia

17th-century Japan (Edo period)

17th-century English Civil War

17th-century England

late 17th-century England

late 17th-century England

late 17th-century Massachusetts (Salem witch trials)

17th-century France

early 17th-century Russia

early 17th-century Russia

17th-century England

mid 17th-century France (court of Louis XIV)

17th-century Italy, "the moon"

17th-century Florence

17th-century Rome (Italian and English characters)

early 17th-century England and Spain

late 17th-century Scotland (Jacobite rising)

17th-century Mexico

17th-century Ottoman Empire

early 17th-century Jamestown, Virginia (Pocahantas, opera)

late 17th-century England, court of Charles II

17th-century Italy, Spain, Trinidad

17th-century France

early 17th century Italy

17th-century England (Restoration comedy)

17th-century London (Restoration comedy)

early 17th-century France

17th-century Sicily (Restoration comedy)

17th-century Europe (the Thirty Years War)

mid 17th-century London

17th-century London (plague outbreak)

17th-century China (end of the Ming dynasty; open free Internet Archive account to borrow)

17th-century London (all female cast)

17th-century England

17th-century England

early 17th-century France

17th-century Naples, Carnival

early 17th-century England (one-woman monodrama)

mid 17th-century Eastern Europe

early 17th-century England, 16th-century English Reformation

16th-century England

late 16th- to early 17th-century Russia

16th-century Scotland

16th-century France

16th-century France

Renaissance Italy, Medici dynasty

16th-century Rome

Spanish conquest of Mexico

16th-century Florida (Spanish settlement of the New World)

Life of William Shakespeare

early 16th-century Italy

16th-century Netherlands, Eighty Years' War

16th-century England, court of Elizabeth I

16th-century France

16th-century China (Ming Dynasty)

late 16th-century Scotland

mid 16th-century England

16th-century England, life of Sir Thomas More

16th-century Paris, Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

16th-century Paris, Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

16th-century Sweden, Protestant Reformation

Based on The Merchant of Venice

16th-century Ottoman Empire

16th-century Spain

16th-century conquest of Peru

16th-century Japan (collection contains several other Kabuki plays)

16th-century Italy

various time periods, starting with the Garden of Eden

early 17th-century England, 16th-century English Reformation

15th-century Spain

15th-century England, War of the Roses

late 15th-century Spain

15th-century Europe (Pope Alexander VI)

15th-century Venice

15th-century Scotland

late 15th- early16th-century Italy

late 15th-century England

15th-century France

15th-century Central Asia (Emperor Timur)

11th-century Greece (Norman conquest)

9th-century England

11th-century England

12th-century England

12th-century England

12th-century England (murder of Thomas Becket)

13th-century England

9th-century Ireland (Viking invasion)

12th-century Paris

10th-century England

ca. 1400 (English witch trials)

11th-century Spain

12th-century Anjou (France)

12th-century England (murder of Thomas Becket)

12th-century Jerusalem (Third Crusade)

9th-century China (Tang Dynasty)

14th-century England, France (this volume also includes The Simpletons of the Unexpected Isles, set in an indeterminate year on a Polynesian island)

10th-century England

13th-century Italy

4th-century Roman Empire

4th-century Roman Empire (Emperor Julian the Apostate; complete works of Ibsen)

1st-century Judea

1st-century Parthian Empire (modern-day Iran)

1st-century BCE Judea

1st-century Roman Empire

Post-Trojan War (ca. 12th century BCE)

early Christendom, Rome