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The Amen Corner
by
James Baldwin
Publication Date: 1954
1950s Harlem
Arcadia
by
Tom Stoppard
Publication Date: 1993
early 19th-century England; present day
Bauer
by
Lauren Gunderson
Publication Date: 2014
WWII USA
Blues for Mister Charlie
by
James Baldwin
Publication Date: 1964
1950s US South
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
by
Lynn Nottage
Publication Date: 2011
1930s-2000s Hollywood
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
by
Bertolt Brecht
Publication Date: 1943-45
WWII Soviet Union
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
by
Lonne Elder
Publication Date: 1969
1950s Harlem
Ceremonies in Dark Old Men
by
Lonne Elder
Publication Date: 1969
1960s Harlem
Climbing Jacob's Ladder
by
Regina Andrews
Publication Date: 1931
ca. 1930 US South (describes a lynching)
Clybourne Park
by
Bruce Norris
Publication Date: 2010
1959, 2009 Chicago (during and after the events of Hansberry's
Raisin in the Sun
)
Copenhagen
by
Michael Frayn
Publication Date: 1998
1941 Copenhagen, World War II
The County Chairman
by
George Ade
Publication Date: 1903
turn of the century small town USA
Deadly Triplets
by
Adrienne Kennedy
Publication Date: 1990
1960s London
Divine Comedy
by
Owen Dodson
Publication Date: 1938
Depression-era USA
Fences
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1985
1950s Pittsburgh
Harlem Duet
by
Djanet Sears
Call Number: 1997
set in present-day Harlem, 1928, and 1860 (prequel to Othello)
Hoodoo Love
by
Katori Hall
Publication Date: 2007
Depression-era Memphis
Intimate Apparel
by
Lynn Nottage
Publication Date: 2003
1905 New York City
The Invention of Love
by
Tom Stoppard
Publication Date: 1998
late-19th through early 20th century England, the river Styx
Jelly's Last Jam
by
George C. Wolfe (book) and Susan Birkenhead (lyrics)
Publication Date: 1992
early 1900s New Orleans, Los Angeles (life of Jelly Roll Morton, musical)
Jitney
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1982
1970s Pittsburgh
Joe Turner's Come and Gone
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1984
1910s Pittsburgh, "Great Migration"
King Hedley II
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1999
1980s Pittsburgh
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1982
1927 Chicago
Milestones
by
Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblauch
Publication Date: 1912
1860-1912 England
Mom, how did you meet the Beatles?
by
Adrienne Kennedy and Adam Kennedy
Publication Date: 2006
1960s London
The Morality of Mrs. Dulska
by
Gabriela Zapolska
Publication Date: 1906
turn-of-the-century Poland
The Mountaintop
by
Katori Hall
Publication Date: 2011
1968 Memphis (Martin Luther King Jr.)
Mule Bone
by
Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes
Publication Date: 1930
ca. 1930 Florida
No Sugar
by
Jack Davis
Publication Date: 1986
1930s Western Australia, Moore River Native Settlement (reservation for Aboriginal Australians)
One More River to Cross
by
Lynn Nottage
Publication Date: 2015
1930s Southern plantation, looking back to the Antebellum South
Our Lady of Kibeho
by
Katori Hall
Publication Date: 2015
1981 Rwanda
The People of Clarendon County
by
Ossie Davis
Publication Date: 1955
1954 South Carolina (Brown v. Board of Education case)
The Piano Lesson
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1987
1936 Pittsburgh
Rachel
by
Angelina Weld Grimke
Publication Date: 1916
early 1900s US South
A Raisin in the Sun
by
Lorraine Hansberry
Publication Date: 1959
1950s Chicago
Saturday Night/Sunday Morning
by
Katori Hall
Publication Date: 2014
1945 Memphis, Tennessee
Seven Guitars
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1995
1948 Pittsburgh
The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
by
Lorraine Hansberry
Publication Date: 1964
1960s New York City
Storyville
by
Ed Bullins (libretto) and Mildred Kayden (music and book)
Publication Date: 1979
1917 New Orleans (musical)
Teahouse
by
Lao She
Publication Date: 1957
turn-of-the-century China
They That Sit in Darkness
by
Mary Burrill
Publication Date: 1919
early 20th-century US South
Two Trains Running
by
August Wilson
Publication Date: 1993
1968 Pittsburgh
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known As Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915
by
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publication Date: 2012
late 19th- early 20th-century Namibia
What the Wine-Sellers Buy
by
Ron Milner
Publication Date: 1974
1950s Detroit
Wines in the Wilderness
by
Alice Childress
Publication Date: 1969
1964 Harlem
Zoot Suit
by
Luis Valdez
Publication Date: 1979
1940s Los Angeles (Zoot Suit Riots)
Plays Set in the 19th Century
...And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi
by
Marcus Gardley
Publication Date: 2004
US Civil War
Abe Lincoln in Illinois
by
Robert E. Sherwood
Publication Date: 1938
mid 19th-century USA
Abraham Lincoln
by
John Drinkwater
Publication Date: 1918
US Civil War
Amistad
by
Owen Dodson
Publication Date: 1940
1839-1841 ocean off of Cuba, Long Island
Arcadia
by
Tom Stoppard
Publication Date: 1993
early 19th-century England; present day
Arms and the Man
by
George Bernard Shaw
Publication Date: 1894
1885 Serbo-Bulgarian War
Bloody Poetry
by
Howard Brenton
Publication Date: 1984
early 19th-century Europe
Brontë
by
Polly Teale
Publication Date: 2005
early 19th-century England
Carousel
by
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
Publication Date: 1945
late 19th-century USA (musical)
Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil
by
John McGrath
Publication Date: 1973
early 19th-century Scottish Highlands
Childe Byron
by
Romulus Linney
Publication Date: 1977
early to mid 19th-century England
The County Chairman
by
George Ade
Publication Date: 1903
turn of the century small town USA
Creditors
by
August Strindberg (trans. David Greig)
Publication Date: 1888
19th-century Scandinavia
The Days of the Commune
by
Bertolt Brecht
Publication Date: 1948-49
1871 Paris Commune
Disraeli
by
Louis N. Parker
Publication Date: 1911
late 19th-century England
A Doll's House
by
Henrik Ibsen
late 19th-century Norway
The Elephant Man
by
Bernard Pomerance
Publication Date: 1979
late 19th-century England, Europe
Escape to Freedom
by
Ossie Davis
Publication Date: 1976
19th-century US South (story of young Frederick Douglass)
The Father
by
August Strindberg
Publication Date: 1887
19th-century Sweden
The First Gentleman
by
Norman Ginsbury
Publication Date: 1945
Regency-era England
Flyin' West
by
Pearl Cleage
Publication Date: 1994
late 19th-century Kansas, all-Black frontier town
A Free Man of Color
by
John Guare
Publication Date: 2010
early 19th-century USA, Haiti, and France
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
by
Moisés Kaufman
Publication Date: 1997
1890s England
House Arrest
by
Anna Deavere Smith
Publication Date: 2003
Presidencies of Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The Importance of Being Earnest
by
Wilde, Oscar
Publication Date: 1895
late 19th-century England
Insurrection: Holding History
by
Robert O?Hara
Publication Date: 1995
1831 Virginia plantation (Nat Turner Rebellion, time travel)
In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play
by
Sarah Ruhl
Publication Date: 2009
late 19th-century New York
The Invention of Love
by
Tom Stoppard
Publication Date: 1998
late-19th through early 20th century England, the river Styx
The Line
by
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Publication Date: 2009
late 19th-century France
Marat/Sade: The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade
by
Peter Weiss
Publication Date: 1964
early 19th-century French prison, French Revolution (play-within-a-play)
Marching Song
by
Orson Welles and Roger Hill
Publication Date: 1932
mid 19th-century USA
The Matchmaker
by
Thornton Wilder
Publication Date: 1954
Gilded Age New York (basis for
Hello, Dolly!
; also see Wilder's
The Merchant of Yonkers
)
Milestones
by
Arnold Bennett and Edward Knoblauch
Publication Date: 1912
1860-1912 England
Miss Julie
by
August Strindberg (trans. David Eldrid)
Publication Date: 1888
19th century Europe
The Morality of Mrs. Dulska
by
Gabriela Zapolska
Publication Date: 1906
turn-of-the-century Poland
An Octoroon
by
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Publication Date: 2014
19th-century US Southern plantation (play-within-a-play taking place in the present)
On the Verge
by
Eric Overmyer
Publication Date: 1985
Victorian era through the present (fantasy world)
A Penny for a Song
by
John Whiting
Publication Date: 1951
early 19th-century England
Piano
by
Anna Deavere Smith
Publication Date: 1990
1898 Cuban War of Independence
Purlie Victorious
by
Ossie Davis
Publication Date: 1961
post-Civil War southern plantation
The Rear Column
by
Simon Gray
Publication Date: 1978
late 19th-century Congo
The Right Honourable Gentleman
by
Michael Dyne
Publication Date: 1962
late 19th-century England
The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
by
Arthur Wing Pinero
Publication Date: 1893
late 19th-century England
A Soldier's Play
by
Charles Fuller
Publication Date: 1981
a World War II army base in the US South
The Storm
by
Aleksandr Ostrovsky
Publication Date: 1859
19th-century Russia
Teahouse
by
Lao She
Publication Date: 1957
turn-of-the-century China
The Tragedy of Man
by
Imre Madach (trans. George Szirtes)
Publication Date: 1861
various time periods, starting with the Garden of Eden
Translations
by
Brian Friel
Publication Date: 1980
19th-century Irish village
uMabatha
by
Welcome Msomi
19th-century Zulu Kingdom (adaptation of Macbeth)
The un-Divine Comedy
by
Zygmunt Krasiński (trans. Harold B. Segal)
Publication Date: 1835
mid 19th-century Europe
Vincent in Brixton
by
Nicholas Wright
Publication Date: 2002
late 19th-century London
We Are Proud to Present a Presentation about the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known As Southwest Africa, from the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915
by
Jackie Sibblies Drury
Publication Date: 2012
late 19th- early 20th-century Namibia
The Wedding
by
Stanisław Wyspiański (trans. Noel Clark)
Publication Date: 1901
19th-century Poland
The Wingless Victory
by
Maxwell Anderson
Publication Date: 1936
early 19th-century New England
A Woman of No Importance
by
Wilde, Oscar
Publication Date: 1893
late 19th-century England
Young Marx
by
Richard Bean and Clive Coleman
Publication Date: 2017
mid 19th-century Germany
Zastrozzi, The Master of Discipline
by
George F. Walker
Publication Date: 1977
late 19th-century Europe
Plays Set in the 18th Century
Adelaide
by
Richard Lalor Sheil
Publication Date: 1814
French Revolution
Amadeus
by
Peter Shaffer
Publication Date: 1979
late 18th-century Vienna
American Primitive
by
William Gibson
Publication Date: 1969
American Revolution
Angelique
by
Lorena Gale
Publication Date: 1998
1730s Montreal
The Art of Success
by
Nick Dear
Publication Date: 1986
18th-century England
The Beaux' Stratagem
by
George Farquhar
Publication Date: 1707
early 18th-century England
The Beggar's Opera
by
John Gay
Publication Date: 1728
18th-century London
The Belle's Strategem
by
Hannah Cowley
Publication Date: 1780
1780s London
Berkeley Square
by
John L. Balderston
Publication Date: 1926
American Revolution, early 20th century
The Camp: A Musical Entertainment
by
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publication Date: 1778
American Revolution, England
Coram Boy
by
Helen Edmundson
Publication Date: 2005
18th-century England
The Critic
by
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publication Date: 1779
18th-century England
In Lambeth
by
Jack Shepherd
Publication Date: 1989
late 18th-century England
Jefferson's Gardens
by
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Publication Date: 2015
American Revolution
The Madness of King George III
by
Alan Bennett
Publication Date: 1991
late 18th to early 19th-century England
The Man of Destiny
by
George Bernard Shaw
Publication Date: 1897
late 18th-century Napoleonic wars
Mary Read
by
James Bridie
Publication Date: 1934
18th-century England and high seas
The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington
by
James Ijames
Publication Date: 2018
ca. 1800 Mount Vernon, VA
Mr Foote's Other Leg
by
Ian Kelly
Publication Date: 2015
Georgian London
The Nabob
by
Samuel Foote
Publication Date: 1772
18th-century India
Omai
by
John O'Keeffe
Publication Date: 1785
South Pacific, Kamchatka, Antarctica, high seas
Pomander Walk
by
Louis N. Parker
Publication Date: 1910
late 18th-century London
Queen Anne
by
Helen Edmundson
Publication Date: 2015
early 18th-century England
The Recruiting Officer
by
George Farquhar
Publication Date: 1706
early 18th-century Shrewsbury
Richelieu (or, The French Libertine)
by
John Howard Payne
Publication Date: 1826
18th-century France
The Rivals
by
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publication Date: 1775
18th-century Bath
Rob Roy Macgregor, or Auld Lang Syne
by
Isaac Pocock
Publication Date: 1818
1715 Jacobite Rising, Scotland
The School for Scandal
by
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Publication Date: 1777
18th-century England
She Stoops to Conquer
by
Oilver Goldsmith
Publication Date: 1773
18th-century England
The Successful Pyrate
by
Charles Johnson
Publication Date: 1712
18th-century Madagascar
Tipu Sultan Kanda Kanasu
by
Girish Karnad
Publication Date: 1997
late 18th-century Mysore (India)
Tony Lumpkin in Town
by
John O'Keeffe
Publication Date: 1778
18th-century England
Toussaint Louverture: The Story of the Only Successful Slave Revolt in History
by
C. L. R. James
Publication Date: 1934
late 18th-century Haiti
The Tragedy of Man
by
Imre Madach (trans. George Szirtes)
Publication Date: 1861
various time periods, starting with the Garden of Eden
The Way of the World
by
William Congreve
Publication Date: 1700
turn of the 18th century England
Plays Set in the 17th Century
55 Days
by
Howard Brenton
Publication Date: 2012
mid 17th-century English Civil War
Abbas, King of Persia
by
William Godwin
Publication Date: 1801
17th-century Persia
Amboyna
by
John Dryden
Publication Date: 1673
early 17th-century Indonesia (Amboyna massacre)
The Assignation: Or, Love In a Nunnery
by
John Dryden
Publication Date: 1673
17th-century Rome
The Battles of Coxinga
by
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Publication Date: 1715
mid 17th-century China and Japan (puppet play)
Bellamira, Or the Mistress
by
Sir Charles Sedley
Publication Date: 1687
17th-century England
Boris Godunov
by
Alexander Pushkin (trans. James E. Falen)
Publication Date: 1831
late 16th- to early 17th-century Russia
The Bundle, or, New Narrow Road to the Deep North
by
Edward Bond
Publication Date: 1968
17th-century Japan (Edo period)
Charles the First
by
Mary Russell Mitford
Publication Date: 1825
17th-century English Civil War
Charles the Second: Or, the Merry Monarch
by
John Howard Payne
Publication Date: 1824
17th-century England
The City-Heiress
by
Aphra Behn
Publication Date: 1682
late 17th-century England
The Country Wife
by
William Wycherley
Publication Date: 1675
late 17th-century England
The Crucible
by
Arthur Miller
Publication Date: 1953
late 17th-century Massachusetts (Salem witch trials)
Cyrano de Bergerac
by
Edmond Rostand (trans. Anthony Burgess)
Publication Date: 1897
17th-century France
The Czar of Muscovy
by
Mary Pix (attributed to)
Publication Date: 1701
early 17th-century Russia
Demetrius
by
Friedrich Schiller
Publication Date: 1857 (written 1804-1805)
early 17th-century Russia
The Double-Dealer
by
William Congreve
Publication Date: 1693
17th-century England
The Duchess de la Vallière
by
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Publication Date: 1837
mid 17th-century France (court of Louis XIV)
The Emperor of the Moon
by
Aphra Behn
Publication Date: 1687
17th-century Italy, "the moon"
Faulkener
by
William Godwin
Publication Date: 1807
17th-century Florence
The Feign'd Curtizans, or, a Nights Intrigue
by
Aphra Behn
Publication Date: 1679
17th-century Rome (Italian and English characters)
A Game at Chess
by
Thomas Middleton
Publication Date: 1624
early 17th-century England and Spain
Glencoe
by
Thomas Noon Talfourd
Publication Date: 1840
late 17th-century Scotland (Jacobite rising)
The Heresy of Love
by
Helen Edmundson
Publication Date: 2012
17th-century Mexico
Ibrahim, the Thirteenth Emperour Of the Turks: a Tragedy
by
Mary Pix
Publication Date: 1696
17th-century Ottoman Empire
The Indian Princess; Or, La Belle Sauvage
by
James Nelson Barker
Publication Date: 1808
early 17th-century Jamestown, Virginia (Pocahantas, opera)
In Good King Charles's Golden Days
by
Bernard Shaw
Publication Date: 1938-1939
late 17th-century England, court of Charles II
The Joker of Seville
by
Derek Walcott
Publication Date: 1974
17th-century Italy, Spain, Trinidad
La Bête
by
David Hirson
Publication Date: 1991
17th-century France
Lamp at Midnight: A Play about Galileo
by
Barrie Stavis
Publication Date: 1947
early 17th century Italy
Love for Love
by
William Congreve
Publication Date: 1695
17th-century England (Restoration comedy)
The Man of Mode
by
George Etherege
Publication Date: 1676
17th-century London (Restoration comedy)
Marion de Lorme
by
Victor Hugo
Publication Date: 1828
early 17th-century France
Marriage à la Mode
by
John Dryden
Publication Date: 1673
17th-century Sicily (Restoration comedy)
Mother Courage and Her Children
by
Bertolt Brecht
Publication Date: 1939
17th-century Europe (the Thirty Years War)
Nell Gwynn
by
Jessica Swale
Publication Date: 2013
mid 17th-century London
One Flea Spare
by
Naomi Wallace
Publication Date: 1995
17th-century London (plague outbreak)
The Peach Blossom Fan
by
Kong Shangren (trans. Chen Shih-Hsiang et al.)
Publication Date: 1699
17th-century China (end of the Ming dynasty; open free Internet Archive account to borrow)
Playhouse Creatures
by
April De Angelis
Publication Date: 1993
17th-century London (all female cast)
The Provoked Wife
by
John Vanbrugh
Publication Date: 1697
17th-century England
The Relapse
by
John Vanbrugh
Publication Date: 1696
17th-century England
Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy
by
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Publication Date: 1839
early 17th-century France
The Rover or The Banish'd Cavaliers
by
Aphra Behn
Publication Date: 1677
17th-century Naples, Carnival
Shakespeare's Will
by
Vern Thiessen
early 17th-century England (one-woman monodrama)
The Trial of God
by
Elie Wiesel
Publication Date: 1979
mid 17th-century Eastern Europe
Written on the Heart
by
David Edgar
Publication Date: 2011
early 17th-century England, 16th-century English Reformation
Plays Set in the 16th Century
Anne Boleyn
by
Howard Brenton
Publication Date: 2010
16th-century England
Boris Godunov
by
Alexander Pushkin (trans. James E. Falen)
Publication Date: 1831
late 16th- to early 17th-century Russia
The Burning
by
Stewart Conn
Publication Date: 1971
16th-century Scotland
Bussy d'Ambois
by
George Chapman
Publication Date: 1603
16th-century France
Bussy D'Ambois; Or, The Husbands Revenge
by
Thomas D'Urfey
Publication Date: 1691
16th-century France
The Cardinal
by
Louis Napoleon Parker
Publication Date: 1901
Renaissance Italy, Medici dynasty
The Cenci
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Publication Date: 1819
16th-century Rome
Cortez: Or, The Conquest of Mexico
by
James Planché
Publication Date: 1823
Spanish conquest of Mexico
Cross and Sword
by
Paul Green
Publication Date: 1965
16th-century Florida (Spanish settlement of the New World)
A Cry of Players
by
William Gibson
Publication Date: 1968
Life of William Shakespeare
The Duchess of Malfi
by
John Webster
Publication Date: 1612-1613
early 16th-century Italy
Egmont
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publication Date: 1788
16th-century Netherlands, Eighty Years' War
The Fall Of the Earl Of Essex
by
James Ralph
Publication Date: 1731
16th-century England, court of Elizabeth I
Francis the First
by
Fanny Kemble
Publication Date: 1832
16th-century France
Hai Jui Dismissed from Office
by
Wu Han (trans. C. C. Huang)
Publication Date: 1961
16th-century China (Ming Dynasty)
Jamie the Saxt
by
Robert McLellan
Publication Date: 1937
late 16th-century Scotland
Lady Jane Grey
by
Nicholas Rowe
Publication Date: 1715
mid 16th-century England
A Man for all Seasons
by
Robert Bolt
Publication Date: 1960
16th-century England, life of Sir Thomas More
The Massacre at Paris
by
Christopher Marlow
Publication Date: 1593
16th-century Paris, Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
The Massacre of Paris
by
Nathaniel Lee
Publication Date: 1689
16th-century Paris, Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
Master Olof
by
August Strindberg
Publication Date: 1881
16th-century Sweden, Protestant Reformation
The Merchant
by
Arnold Wesker
Publication Date: 1976
Based on
The Merchant of Venice
Mustapha, The Son Of Solyman The Magnificent
by
Roger Boyle
Publication Date: 1665
16th-century Ottoman Empire
The Revenge
by
Edward Young
Publication Date: 1721
16th-century Spain
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
by
Peter Shaffer
Publication Date: 1964
16th-century conquest of Peru
Sanmon Gosan no Kiri (The Golden Gate and the Paulownia Crest)
by
Namiki Gohei I (trans. Alan Cummings)
Publication Date: 1778
16th-century Japan (collection contains several other Kabuki plays)
Torquato Tasso
by
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Publication Date: 1790
16th-century Italy
The Tragedy of Man
by
Imre Madach (trans. George Szirtes)
Publication Date: 1861
various time periods, starting with the Garden of Eden
Written on the Heart
by
David Edgar
Publication Date: 2011
early 17th-century England, 16th-century English Reformation
Plays Set in the 15th Century
Antonio
by
William Godwin
Publication Date: 1800
15th-century Spain
The Battle of Hexham
by
George Colman
Publication Date: 1789
15th-century England, War of the Roses
Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards
by
John Dryden
Publication Date: 1672
late 15th-century Spain
The Devil's Charter
by
Barnabe Barnes
Publication Date: 1607
15th-century Europe (Pope Alexander VI)
Foscari
by
Mary Russell Mitford
Publication Date: 1826
15th-century Venice
Joanna Baillie
by
Amanda Gilroy
Publication Date: 1810
15th-century Scotland
Lucrezia Borgia
by
Victor Hugo
Publication Date: 1833
late 15th- early16th-century Italy
Perkin Warbeck
by
John Ford
Publication Date: 1634
late 15th-century England
Saint Joan
by
George Bernard Shaw
Publication Date: 1923
15th-century France
Tamburlaine the Great
by
Christopher Marlowe
Publication Date: 1587-1588
15th-century Central Asia (Emperor Timur)
Plays Set in the Middle Ages
Adelgitha
by
Matthew Lewis
Publication Date: 1807
11th-century Greece (Norman conquest)
Alfred the Great
by
John Sheridan Knowles
Publication Date: 1831
9th-century England
Battle of Hastings
by
Richard Cumberland
Publication Date: 1778
11th-century England
Becket
by
Jean Anouilh
Publication Date: 1959
12th-century England
Becket
by
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Publication Date: 1884
12th-century England
Four Nights in Knaresborough
by
Paul Corcoran
Publication Date: 1999
12th-century England (murder of Thomas Becket)
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
by
Robert Greene
Publication Date: ca. 1589
13th-century England
Hibernia Freed
by
William Philips
Publication Date: 1722
9th-century Ireland (Viking invasion)
In Extremis: The Story of Abelard & Heloise
by
Howard Brenton
Publication Date: 2006
12th-century Paris
King Edgar and Alfreda
by
Edward Ravenscroft
Publication Date: 1677
10th-century England
The Lady's Not for Burning
by
Christopher Fry
Publication Date: 1948
ca. 1400 (English witch trials)
Le Cid
by
Pierre Corneille (trans. Roscoe Mongan)
Publication Date: 1636
11th-century Spain
The Lion in Winter
by
James Goldman
Publication Date: 1966
12th-century Anjou (France)
Murder in the Cathedral
by
T. S. Eliot
Publication Date: 1935
12th-century England (murder of Thomas Becket)
Nathan the Wise
by
Gotthold E. Lessing; Edward Kemp (Translator)
Publication Date: 1779
12th-century Jerusalem (Third Crusade)
Romance of the Western Chamber
by
Wang Shifu (trans. S. I. Hsiung)
Publication Date: ca. 13th century
9th-century China (Tang Dynasty)
The Six of Calais
by
George Bernard Shaw
Publication Date: 1934
14th-century England, France (this volume also includes
The Simpletons of the Unexpected Isles
, set in an indeterminate year on a Polynesian island)
St. Dunstan
by
William Godwin
Publication Date: 1790
10th-century England
Sunsets and Glories
by
Peter Barnes
Publication Date: 1990
13th-century Italy
Plays Set in Ancient Times
Constantine the Great
by
Nathaniel Lee
Publication Date: 1683
4th-century Roman Empire
Emperor and Galilean
by
Henrik Ibsen
Publication Date: 1873
4th-century Roman Empire (Emperor Julian the Apostate; complete works of Ibsen)
Mary Magdalene
by
Maurice Maeterlinck
Publication Date: 1910
1st-century Judea
The Prince of Parthia
by
Thomas Godfrey
Publication Date: 1765
1st-century Parthian Empire (modern-day Iran)
The Tragedy of Mariam
by
Elizabeth Cary
Publication Date: 1613
1st-century BCE Judea
The Tragedy of Nero, Emperor of Rome
by
Nathaniel Lee
Publication Date: 1675
1st-century Roman Empire
The Women of Troy
by
Don Taylor (based on Euripides' The Trojan Women)
Publication Date: 1990
Post-Trojan War (ca. 12th century BCE)
Androcles and the Lion
by
George Bernard Shaw
Publication Date: 1912
early Christendom, Rome
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