The Best Plays of all Time

Selected by piero scaruffi
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Kalidasa (Sanskrit, 353): "Shakuntala" ( 3##)
Fernando de Rojas (Spain, 14##): "Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea/ La Celestina" (1499)
Gil Vicente (Portugal, 1465): "Auto da Barca do Purgatorio" (1518)
Christopher Marlowe (1564): "Doctor Faustus" (1592)
William Shakespeare (1564): "Henry IV" (1597)
William Shakespeare (1564): "Hamlet" (1601)
William Shakespeare (1564): "Othello" (1604)
William Shakespeare (1564): "King Lear" (1605)
William Shakespeare (1564): "Antony and Cleopatra" (1606)
William Shakespeare (1564): "Macbeth" (1606)
Lope-Felix de Vega-Carpio (Spain, 1562): "Fuente Ovejuna" (1614)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (Spain, 1600): "El Gran Teatro del Mundo/ The Great Theater of the World" (1633)
Pedro Calderon de la Barca (Spain, 1600): "La Vida es Sueno" (1635)
Joost van den Vondel (1587): "Lucifer" (1654)
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin "Moliere" (1622): "Tartuffe" (1664)
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin "Moliere" (1622): "Le Misanthrope" (1666)
Jean Racine (1639): "Phedre" (1677)
Carlo Goldoni (1707): "La Locandiera" (1753)
Carlo Goldoni (1707): "Il Campiello" (1756)
Carlo Goldoni (1707): "I Rusteghi" (1760)
Carlo Goldoni (1707): "Le Baruffe Chiozzotte" (1762)
Gotthold-Ephraim Lessing (1729): "Minna Von Barnhelm" (1763)
Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe (1749): "Iphigenie auf Tauris" (1787)
Johann-Wolfgang von Goethe (1749): "Torquato Tasso" (1790)
Friedrich von Schiller (1759): "Maria Stuart" (1800)
Heinrich Kleist (1777): "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg" (1810)
Jozsef Katona (1791): "Bank Ban" (1815)
Georg Buchner (1813): "Woyzeck" (1837)
Aleksandr Ostrovsky (Russia, 1823): "Groza/ The Storm" (1860)
enrik Ibsen (Norway, 1828): "Vildanden/ The Wild Duck/ Anatra Selvatica" (1884)H
August Strindberg (Sweden, 1849): "Froeken Julie/ Miss Julie" (1888)
Henrik Ibsen (Norway, 1828): "Hedda Gabler" (1890)
Gerhart Hauptmann (1862): "Die Weber" (1892)
Alfred Jarry (1873): "Ubu Roi" (1894)
Oscar Wilde (Britain, 1854): "The Importance of Being Ernest" (1895)
Anton Chekhov (Russia, 1860): "Chaika/ The Sea Gull/ Gabbiano" (1896)
Arthur Schnitzler (1862): "Reigen/ La Ronde" (1896)
August Strindberg (Sweden, 1849): "Till Damascus/ Towards Damascus" (1898)
Anton Chekhov (Russia, 1860): "Dyadya Vanya/ Uncle Vanya/ Zio Vania" (1899)
Arthur Schnitzler (1862): "Der gruene Kakadu" (1899)
Anton Chekhov (Russia, 1860): "Tri Sestry/ Three Sisters/ Tre Sorelle" (1901)
Ivo Vojnovic (Croatia, 1857): "Dubrovacka Trilogija/ Dubrovnic Trilogy" (1902)
Frank Wedekind (1864): "Die Buechse der Pandora" (1904)
John Synge (Ireland, 1871): "The Playboy of The Western World" (1907)
Ernst Toller (1893): "Masse-Mensch" (1921)
Luigi Pirandello (1867): "Sei personaggi" (1921)
Luigi Pirandello (1867): "Enrico IV" (1922)
Velemir Khlebnikov (Russia, 1885): "Zangezi" (1922)
Bertold Brecht (1898): "Die Dreigroschenoper" (1927)
Paul Claudel (1868): "Le Soulier de Satin" (1928)
Jean Giraudoux (1882): "Electre" (1937)
Bertold Brecht (1898): "Leben des Galilei" (1939)
Bertold Brecht (1898): "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan" (1940)
Bertold Brecht (1898): "Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti" (1940)
Bertold Brecht (1898): "Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder" (1941)
Bertold Brecht (1898): "Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis" (1944)
Tennessee Williams (USA, 1911): "A Streetcar Named Desire" (1947)
Arthur Miller (USA, 1915): "Death of a Salesman" (1949)
Samuel Beckett (1906): "En Attendant Godot" (1952)
Eugene O'Neill (USA, 1888): "Long Day's Journey" (1953)
Friedrich Duerrenmatt (1921): "Der Besuch der Alten Dame" (1956)
Max Frisch (1911): "Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter" (1958)
Eugene Ionesco (1912): "Rhinoceros" (1959)
John Arden (Britain, 1930): "Serjeant Musgrave's Dance" (1959)
Peter Weiss (1916): "Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt durch die Schauspielergruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des Herrn de Sade/ The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat" (1964)
Peter Weiss (1916): "Marat/Sade" (1964)
Slawomir Mrozek (1930): "Tango" (1965)
Fernando Arrabal (1932): "L'Architecte et l'Empereur d'Assyrie" (1967)
Tom Stoppard (Britain, 1937): "Travesties" (1972)