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King Lear

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William Shakespeare

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Oedipus the King

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Sophocles

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Hamlet

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William Shakespeare

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Oresteia

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Aeschylus

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Macbeth

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William Shakespeare

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Long Day’s Journey into Night

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Eugene O’Neill

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Othello

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William Shakespeare

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Waiting for Godot

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Samuel Beckett

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Medea

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Euripides

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Twelfth Night

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William Shakespeare

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A Doll’s House

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Henrik Ibsen

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The Cherry Orchard

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Anton Checkhov

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Bacchae

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Euripides

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The Importance of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde

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Antigone

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Sophocles

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Tartuffe

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Moliere

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Antony and Cleopatra

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William Shakespeare

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Mother Courage and Her Children

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Bertolt Brecht

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Lysistrata

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Aristophanes

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Doctor Faustus

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Christopher Marlowe

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Death of a Salesman

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Arthur Miller

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Woyzeck

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Georg Buchner

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Volpone, or the Fox

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Ben Jonson

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Henry IV

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William Shakespeare

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The Way of the World

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William Congreve

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Tennessee Williams

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The Tempest

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William Shakespeare

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Major Barbara

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George Bernard Shaw

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Endgame

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Samuel Beckett

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Sakuntala

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Ka-lida-sa

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Miss Julie

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August Strindberg

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The Peony Pavilion

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Tang Xianzu

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The Misanthrope

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Moliere

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Three Sisters

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Anton Chekhov

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Life is a Dream

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Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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Hedda Gabler

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Henrik Ibsen

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The School for Scandal

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Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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The Playboy of the Western World

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John Millington Synge

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The Iceman Cometh

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Eugene O’Neill

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The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

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Chikamatsu Monzaemon

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Everyman

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Anonymous

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Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes

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Tony Kushner

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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

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William Shakespeare

44
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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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Luigi Pirandello

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Man and Superman

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George Bernard Shaw

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Phedre

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Jean Racine

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Romeo and Juliet

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William Shakespeare

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Look Back in Anger

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John Osborne

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The Homecoming

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Harold Pinter

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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Edward Albee

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The Plough and the Stars

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Sean O’Casey

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The Alchemist

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Ben Jonson

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Trojan Women

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Euripides

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Saint Joan

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George Bernard Shaw

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Blood Wedding

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Federico Garcia Lorca

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The Marriage of Figaro

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Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais

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The Glass Menagerie

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Tennessee Wiliams

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The Good Person of Setzuan

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Bertolt Brecht

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She Stoops to Conquer

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Oliver Goldsmith

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Murder in the Cathedral

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T.S. Eliot

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The Bald Soprano

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Eugene Ionesco

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The Ghost Sonata

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August Strindberg

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The Inspector General

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Nikolai Gogol

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The Crucible

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Arthur Miller

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Marat/Sade

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Peter Weiss

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Translations

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Brian Friel

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The Beggar’s Opera

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Jonn Gay

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Amphitryon

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Plautus

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No Exit

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Jean-Paul Sartre

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A Raisin in the Sun

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Lorraine Hansberry

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Our Town

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Thornton Wilder

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The Country Wife

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William Wycherly

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Travesties

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Tom Stoppard

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The Lower Depths

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Maxim Gorky

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Private Lives

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Noel Coward

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Fool for Love

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Sam Shepard

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A Flea in Her Ear

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Georges Feydeau

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Glengarry Glen Ross

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David Mamet

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King Ubu

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Alfred Jarry

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Cloud Nine

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Caryl Churchill

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At the Hawk’s Well

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William Butler Yeats

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Orpheus

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Jean Cocteau

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“Master Harold”…and the Boys

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Athol Fugard

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The Well-Curb

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Zeami Motokiyo

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The Other Shore

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Gao Xingjan

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The Little Foxes

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Lillian Hellman

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Fences

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August Wilson

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The Dybbuk

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S. Ansky

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The Visit

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Friedrich Durrenmatt

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The Weavers

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Gerhart Hauptmann

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Le Cid

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Pierre Corneille

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The Rover

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Aphra Behn

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Awake and Sing!

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Clifford Odets

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The Brothers

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Terence

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The Balcony

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Jean Genet

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Accidental Death of an Anarchist

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Dario Fo

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The Hostage

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Brendan Behan

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The Heidi Chronicles

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Wendy Wasserstein

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The King’s the Best Magistrate

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Lope de Vega

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Peter Pan

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James M. Barrie