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Macbeth
William Shakespeare · c. 1606 · Tragedy
A soldier is told he will be king, and decides not to wait.
King Lear
William Shakespeare · c. 1606 · Tragedy
A king divides his kingdom by asking his daughters to perform their love.
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare · c. 1602 · Comedy
A shipwrecked woman dresses as a man and immediately makes everything worse.
A Midsummer Night's Dream
William Shakespeare · c. 1595 · Comedy
Four young people run into a wood and are rearranged by something that lives there.
King John
William Shakespeare · c. 1596 · History
A contested crown, and a mother whose child is taken as leverage.
As You Like It
William Shakespeare · c. 1599 · Comedy
A court exiles itself into a forest and gets funnier about it.
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde · 1895 · Comedy
Two men maintain fictional relatives in order to get out of dinner.
A Doll's House
Henrik Ibsen · 1879 · Drama
A wife discovers her marriage was a role she was cast in.
The Seagull
Anton Chekhov · 1896 · Drama
Everyone at the lake is in love with someone who is looking elsewhere.
Othello
William Shakespeare · c. 1603 · Tragedy
A general is talked into destroying the one good thing in his life, one insinuation at a time.
The Tempest
William Shakespeare · c. 1611 · Romance
A deposed duke runs an island by magic, and has to decide whether to forgive the people who wronged him.
The Merchant of Venice
William Shakespeare · c. 1597 · Comedy
A loan secured with a pound of flesh comes due, and a courtroom argues what mercy is worth.
Hamlet
William Shakespeare · c. 1600 · Tragedy
A grief-sick prince discovers that thinking about murder is easier than doing it.
Richard III
William Shakespeare · c. 1593 · History
A deformed schemer decides that if he cannot be loved, he will be feared into a crown.
Julius Caesar
William Shakespeare · c. 1599 · Tragedy
Honorable men murder a friend to save a republic, and hand it to a demagogue instead.
Romeo and Juliet
William Shakespeare · c. 1595 · Tragedy
Two teenagers love faster than their families can hate, and it kills them both.
Doctor Faustus
Christopher Marlowe · c. 1592 · Tragedy
A scholar trades his soul for everything and finds the bill comes due on the hour.