Classic Plays

Aeschylus (Greek: c. 525/524 BC – c. 456/455 BC)
1 The Persians
2 Seven against Thebes
3 The Suppliants
4 The Oresteia
4.1 Agamemnon
4.2 The Libation Bearers
4.3 The Eumenides
4.5 Prometheus Bound

Sophocles Ancient Greek: Σοφοκλῆς, Sophoklēs, Greek pronunciation: [sopʰoklɛ̂ːs]; c. 497/6 BC – winter 406/5 BC
Electra
The Oedipus Plays


Aristophanes 427 BC — 386 BC
The Acharnians, 425 BC
The Knights 424 BC
The Clouds 423 BC
The Wasps 422 BC
Peace 421 BC
The Birds 414 BC
Lysistrata 411 BC
Thesmophoriazusae 411 BC
The Frogs 405 BC
Ecclesiazusae c. 392 BC
Wealth II 388 BC

Euripides (Ancient Greek: (c. 480 – 406 BC
The Bacchae 405 BC

Thomas Kyd, (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594)
Spanish Tragedy 1582 and 1592

Christopher Marlowe (baptised on 26 February 1564 – 30 May 1593)
• The Jew of Malta (c.1589)
• Doctor Faustus (c.1589, or, c.1593)



Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637)
Volpone 1606,
The Alchemist, comedy (performed 1610; printed 1612)
Bartholomew Fair, comedy (performed 31 October 1614; printed 1631)

Thomas Middleton, (1580–1627)


Molière baptised January 15, 1622 – February 17, 1673)
The Misanthrope 1666



Johann Wolfgang von Goetheb 1749 –1832
Faust 1808/1832

Tom Taylor (19 October 1817 – 12 July 1880)
Our American Cousin (1858

Henrik Ibsen (Norwegian: [ˈhɛnɾɪk ˈɪpsən]; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906)
Peer Gynt (1867)
A Doll's House (1879)
Ghosts (1881)
An Enemy of the People (1882)
The Wild Duck (1884)
Hedda Gabler (1890)



Gilbert (1836–1911 and Sullivan (1842–1900).
Thespis, or, The Gods Grown Old (1871) 63 performances
Trial by Jury (1875) 131 performances
The Sorcerer (1877) 178 performances
H.M.S. Pinafore, or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor (1878) 571 performances
The Pirates of Penzance, or, The Slave of Duty (1879) 363 performances
The Martyr of Antioch (cantata) (1880) (Gilbert modified the poem by Henry Hart Milman)
Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride (1881) 578 performances
Iolanthe, or, The Peer and the Peri (1882) 398 performances
Princess Ida, or, Castle Adamant (1884) 246 performances
The Mikado, or, The Town of Titipu (1885) 672 performances
Ruddigore, or, The Witch's Curse (1887) 288 performances
The Yeomen of the Guard, or, The Merryman and his Maid (1888) 423 performances
The Gondoliers, or, The King of Barataria (1889) 554 performances
Utopia, Limited, or, The Flowers of Progress (1893) 245 performances
The Grand Duke, or, The Statutory Duel (1896) 123 performances

A Sensation Novel 1870s by W. S. Gilbert

August Strindberg, 1849 – 14 May 1912)
Miss Julie 1888

Oscar Wilde, (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900)
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
The Duchess of Padua (1883)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
Salomé (1894)
An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

George Bernard Shaw 1856 – 2 November 1950
Major Barbara (1905)
Pygmalion (1912),

Anton Chekhov (1860 -1904)
The Seagull (1896)
Uncle Vanya (1899-1900)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)

Luigi Pirandello 1867 – 10 December 1936)
Six Characters in Search of an Author 1921