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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12913 times as plays)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,881,719 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12266 times as plays)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,085,068 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 11656 times as plays)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,050,624 ratings — published 1623
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8969 times as plays)
avg rating 3.94 — 591,425 ratings — published 1595
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7513 times as plays)
avg rating 3.89 — 447,228 ratings — published 1603
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6947 times as plays)
avg rating 4.17 — 414,635 ratings — published 1895
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 6832 times as plays)
avg rating 3.61 — 475,111 ratings — published 1953
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6508 times as plays)
avg rating 3.98 — 340,660 ratings — published 1947
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6462 times as plays)
avg rating 3.59 — 265,849 ratings — published 1949
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6264 times as plays)
avg rating 3.84 — 227,971 ratings — published 1951
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5976 times as plays)
avg rating 3.78 — 233,869 ratings — published 1611
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5844 times as plays)
avg rating 3.91 — 242,849 ratings — published 1605
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5399 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 262,778 ratings — published 1598
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5246 times as plays)
avg rating 3.96 — 197,836 ratings — published 1623
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 5188 times as plays)
avg rating 3.77 — 169,449 ratings — published 1879
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 5014 times as plays)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,966 ratings — published 1599
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4659 times as plays)
avg rating 3.74 — 145,520 ratings — published 1945
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4505 times as plays)
avg rating 3.77 — 206,750 ratings — published 1596
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 4374 times as plays)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,914 ratings — published -429
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4072 times as plays)
avg rating 3.73 — 183,514 ratings — published 1593
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 4047 times as plays)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,911 ratings — published -441
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 3566 times as plays)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,167,724 ratings — published 2016
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3411 times as plays)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,183 ratings — published 1967
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3200 times as plays)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,080 ratings — published 1599
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3043 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 74,811 ratings — published 1962
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3024 times as plays)
avg rating 3.86 — 114,654 ratings — published 1959
Pygmalion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2953 times as plays)
avg rating 3.88 — 111,730 ratings — published 1913
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2646 times as plays)
avg rating 3.96 — 90,469 ratings — published -431
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paperback)
by (shelved 2437 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,533 ratings — published 1955
Our Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 2436 times as plays)
avg rating 3.75 — 60,496 ratings — published 1938
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 2415 times as plays)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,024 ratings — published 1593
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2228 times as plays)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,897 ratings — published 1588
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2106 times as plays)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,112 ratings — published 1606
The Cherry Orchard (Paperback)
by (shelved 2105 times as plays)
avg rating 3.69 — 46,863 ratings — published 1903
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 2087 times as plays)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,367 ratings — published 1599
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 1951 times as plays)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,683 ratings — published 1623
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 1895 times as plays)
avg rating 3.87 — 54,682 ratings — published -423
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1887 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,741 ratings — published 1956
The Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 1726 times as plays)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,597 ratings — published 1895
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1725 times as plays)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,423 ratings — published 1594
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 1716 times as plays)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,613 ratings — published 1944
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1702 times as plays)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,541 ratings — published 1594
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1662 times as plays)
avg rating 3.80 — 34,260 ratings — published 1597
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 1660 times as plays)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,081 ratings — published -450
Hedda Gabler (Paperback)
by (shelved 1648 times as plays)
avg rating 3.83 — 40,342 ratings — published 1890
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 1574 times as plays)
avg rating 3.68 — 32,140 ratings — published 1604
Arcadia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1565 times as plays)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,792 ratings — published 1993
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1538 times as plays)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,317 ratings — published -458
Cyrano de Bergerac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1534 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 92,725 ratings — published 1897
Tartuffe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1528 times as plays)
avg rating 3.66 — 44,310 ratings — published 1664
“Life is an intricate play with actors waiting for an explanation. Each added act confers a new interpretation of the story. ( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place" )”
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“The world is a wide place where we stumble like children learning to walk. The world is a bright mosaic where we learn like children to see, where our little blurry eyes strive greedily to take in as much light and love and colour and detail as they can.
The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.
What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.”
― SPAN
The world is a coaxing whisper when the wind lips the trees, when the sea licks the shore, when animals burrow into earth and people look up at the sympathetic stars. The world is an admonishing roar when gales chase rainclouds over the plains and whip up ocean waves, when people crowd into cities or intrude into dazzling jungles.
What right have we to carry our desperate mouths up mountains or into deserts? Do we want to taste rock and sand or do we expect to make impossible poems from space and silence? The vastness at least reminds us how tiny we are, and how much we don't yet understand. We are mere babes in the universe, all brothers and sisters in the nursery together. We had better learn to play nicely before we're allowed out..... And we want to go out, don't we? ..... Into the distant humming welcoming darkness.”
― SPAN
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