What are the best must-read plays?

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?

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Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Crucible	3.56	514 reads
The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde	4.24	470 reads
Look Back in Anger John Osborne	3.47	19 reads
Richard III William Shakespeare	3.95	78 reads
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare	3.87	580 reads
The beggar's opera John Caird	2.67	5 reads
A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams	3.9	256 reads
Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen	3.95	30 reads
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen T. Weber (Translator) Michael Meyer (Translator)	3.65	155 reads
M. Butterfly David Henry Hwang	3.5	21 reads
The Visit Friedrich Dürrenmatt Patrick Bowles (Translator)	3.56	40 reads
Saint Joan George Bernard Shaw	4	8 reads
Leben des Galilei Bertolt Brecht	3.33	9 reads
Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov Curt Columbus (Translator)	3.52	41 reads
The Real Thing Tom Stoppard	4	6 reads
Goodnight Desdemona Ann-Marie MacDonald	3	5 reads
The Way of the World and Other Plays William Congreve	4	3 reads
Mary Stuart Mary Stuart Friedrich Schiller	5	2 reads
Tartuffe: or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite Molière	5	1 read
Lettres croiseés Jean-Paul Alègre	0	1 read
... Comme en 14! Dany Laurent	0	1 read
The Complete Works William Shakespeare Peter Alexander	4.45	39 reads
The Women Clare Boothe Luce	4	2 reads
The Tempest William Shakespeare	3.87	283 reads