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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 12954 times as plays)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,893,512 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 12324 times as plays)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,092,094 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 11716 times as plays)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,553 ratings — published 1623
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9016 times as plays)
avg rating 3.94 — 594,511 ratings — published 1595
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7540 times as plays)
avg rating 3.89 — 449,215 ratings — published 1603
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 6966 times as plays)
avg rating 4.17 — 416,301 ratings — published 1895
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 6860 times as plays)
avg rating 3.61 — 477,218 ratings — published 1953
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6526 times as plays)
avg rating 3.98 — 341,855 ratings — published 1947
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6490 times as plays)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,087 ratings — published 1949
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 6285 times as plays)
avg rating 3.84 — 229,062 ratings — published 1952
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6002 times as plays)
avg rating 3.78 — 234,900 ratings — published 1611
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5884 times as plays)
avg rating 3.91 — 244,143 ratings — published 1605
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 5421 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 263,629 ratings — published 1598
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5263 times as plays)
avg rating 3.96 — 198,640 ratings — published 1623
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 5213 times as plays)
avg rating 3.77 — 170,519 ratings — published 1879
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 5030 times as plays)
avg rating 3.72 — 226,231 ratings — published 1599
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 4682 times as plays)
avg rating 3.74 — 145,993 ratings — published 1945
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4517 times as plays)
avg rating 3.77 — 207,618 ratings — published 1596
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 4389 times as plays)
avg rating 3.73 — 244,095 ratings — published -429
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4084 times as plays)
avg rating 3.73 — 184,046 ratings — published 1593
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 4069 times as plays)
avg rating 3.69 — 184,316 ratings — published -441
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 3571 times as plays)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,173,459 ratings — published 2016
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 3431 times as plays)
avg rating 4.04 — 94,373 ratings — published 1967
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 3214 times as plays)
avg rating 3.81 — 91,467 ratings — published 1599
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3049 times as plays)
avg rating 3.86 — 115,234 ratings — published 1959
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Paperback)
by (shelved 3047 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 75,069 ratings — published 1962
Pygmalion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2967 times as plays)
avg rating 3.88 — 112,094 ratings — published 1913
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2654 times as plays)
avg rating 3.96 — 91,157 ratings — published -431
Our Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 2448 times as plays)
avg rating 3.75 — 60,757 ratings — published 1938
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paperback)
by (shelved 2446 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 65,763 ratings — published 1955
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 2426 times as plays)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,455 ratings — published 1593
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2241 times as plays)
avg rating 3.80 — 74,225 ratings — published 1588
The Cherry Orchard (Paperback)
by (shelved 2115 times as plays)
avg rating 3.69 — 47,298 ratings — published 1903
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2114 times as plays)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,422 ratings — published 1606
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 2085 times as plays)
avg rating 3.84 — 54,517 ratings — published 1599
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 1954 times as plays)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,820 ratings — published 1623
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 1899 times as plays)
avg rating 3.86 — 54,929 ratings — published -423
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 1887 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,817 ratings — published 1956
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1739 times as plays)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,675 ratings — published 1594
The Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 1737 times as plays)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,873 ratings — published 1895
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 1715 times as plays)
avg rating 4.11 — 48,997 ratings — published 1944
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1712 times as plays)
avg rating 3.72 — 35,740 ratings — published 1594
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 1671 times as plays)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,349 ratings — published -450
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1666 times as plays)
avg rating 3.80 — 34,405 ratings — published 1597
Hedda Gabler (Paperback)
by (shelved 1660 times as plays)
avg rating 3.83 — 40,474 ratings — published 1890
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 1579 times as plays)
avg rating 3.68 — 32,333 ratings — published 1604
Arcadia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1568 times as plays)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,909 ratings — published 1993
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 1551 times as plays)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,633 ratings — published -458
Cyrano de Bergerac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1546 times as plays)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,095 ratings — published 1897
Tartuffe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1530 times as plays)
avg rating 3.66 — 44,502 ratings — published 1664
“I set up and staged hundreds of ends-of-the-world and watched, enthralled, as they played themselves out.”
― Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
― Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters
“We can see the film stars of yesterday in yesterday’s films, hear the voices of poest and singers on a record, keep the plays of dead dramatists upon our bookshelves, but the actor who holds his audience captive for one brief moment upon a lighted stage vanishes forever when the curtain falls. ”
― The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
― The "Rebecca" Notebook: And Other Memories
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