Prompts

What are the best must-read plays?

By
@Amax
Ash

Drama pre-dates prose by several centuries, meaning that there are thousands of plays to be read and enjoyed. What are your favourite and must-read plays?

The Crucible

1971 • 658 Readers • 484 pages 3.6

The Importance of Being Earnest

1893 • 742 Readers • 84 pages 4.2

Look Back in Anger

1956 • 24 Readers • 97 pages 3.5

Richard III

#8 of 8 in Wars of the Roses

1593 • 121 Readers • 209 pages 3.9

A Midsummer Night's Dream

1595 • 759 Readers • 166 pages 3.9

The beggar's opera

1728 • 14 Readers • 116 pages 2.7

A Streetcar Named Desire

1947 • 397 Readers • 107 pages 3.9

Hedda Gabler

1890 • 44 Readers • 112 pages 3.9

A Doll's House

1879 • 219 Readers • 86 pages 3.7

M. Butterfly

1988 • 27 Readers • 113 pages 3.5

The Visit

1956 • 60 Readers • 112 pages 3.6

Saint Joan

1923 • 19 Readers • 160 pages 4

Leben des Galilei

2013 • 12 Readers • 106 pages 3.3

Uncle Vanya

1897 • 69 Readers • 78 pages 3.5

The Real Thing

1982 • 9 Readers • 112 pages 4

Goodnight Desdemona

2012 • 7 Readers • 112 pages 3

Cover 5

1800 • 2 Readers 5

Lettres croiseés

2009 • 1 Reader • 47 pages

... Comme en 14!

2003 • 1 Reader • 123 pages

The Complete Works

1623 • 85 Readers • 1,408 pages 4.4

The Women

1937 • 2 Readers • 91 pages 4

The Tempest

1611 • 397 Readers • 218 pages 3.9