Plays & Drama Codexery

A source-cited reference to plays & drama

Plays & Drama (18)

• Doctor Faustus (play) — An Elizabethan tragedy of a scholar who sells his soul.
• Electra (Sophocles play) — Sophoclean tragedy of a daughter's grief and revenge.
• Hamlet — A tragedy of revenge, madness, and moral uncertainty.
• Hedda Gabler — Daughter of a general, trapped in an unwanted marriage.
• Henry IV, Part 1 — Shakespeare's history play of rebellion, honor, and Prince Hal's coming-of-age.
• Henry IV, Part 2 — A history play about Prince Hal's kingship and Falstaff's rejection.
• Henry V (play) — Shakespeare's play about King Henry V and the Battle of Agincourt.
• Julius Caesar (play) — Shakespeare's tragedy of political conspiracy and civil war in Rome.
• The Seagull — Chekhov's first major play, a comedy about love and art.
• The Suppliants (Aeschylus) — Aeschylean tragedy where the chorus as protagonists flee forced marriage.
• The Taming of the Shrew — A comedy of courtship and the taming of a shrew.
• Troilus and Cressida — A Shakespearean play of love and war at Troy.
• Twelfth Night — A romantic comedy of mistaken identity and festive revelry.
• Angels in America — Two-part play examining AIDS and homosexuality in 1980s America.
• A Raisin in the Sun — Lorraine Hansberry's play A Raisin in the Sun first appeared on Broadway in 1959. Its title is borrowed from Langston…
• A Streetcar Named Desire — A play about loss, desire, and family conflict in New Orleans.
• Amateur theatre — Unpaid performers create community theatre for enjoyment, not profit.
• Women of Trachis — Women of Trachis (also known as The Trachiniae) is an Athenian tragedy written by Sophocles, likely performed sometime…

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