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Macbeth

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William Shakespeare - A Scottish general's ambitious ascent to power, fueled by prophecy and murder, ultimately leading to his downfall.

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The Seagull

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Anton Chekhov - A play that discusses the complicated dynamics between characters grappling with unrequited love, artistic aspirations, and the clash between generations.

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Fences

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August Wilson - A play examining race relations and the African American experience in the 1950s through the life of Troy Maxson.

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The Bald Soprano

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Eugène Ionesco - An absurdist play that deconstructs language and communications through nonsensical dialogue and interactions between characters.

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The Misanthrope

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Molière - A comedy that critiques the hypocrisies of aristocratic society through the eyes of a man who refuses to flatter or deceive.

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Arcadia

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Tom Stoppard - A play that interweaves the lives of 19th-century and present-day characters as they explore themes of mathematics, landscape gardening, and literary history.

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The Cherry Orchard

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Anton Chekhov - A tragicomedy about an aristocratic Russian family that loses their ancestral estate as a result of their own complacency.

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Endgame

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Samuel Beckett - An absurdist play following the interactions between Hamm, his servant Clov, his father Nagg, and his mother Nell—all in a post-apocalyptic setting.

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Waiting for Godot

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Samuel Beckett - A play in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives.

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The Government Inspector

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Nikolai Gogol - A satirical play highlighting human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of the Russian province.

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Our Town

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Thornton Wilder - A play that explores the everyday lives of people in the small town of Grover's Corners and delves into themes of life, love, and death.

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Medea

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Euripides - A Greek tragedy centered on Medea's calculated revenge against her unfaithful husband Jason.

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The Tempest

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William Shakespeare - A play involving magic, treachery, and forgiveness, where a deposed ruler uses sorcery to restore his daughter to power.

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A Doll's House

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Henrik Ibsen - A play about a woman's struggle for independence in a male-dominated world.

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Long Day's Journey into Night

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Eugene O'Neill - An autobiographical play depicting a family's painful struggles with addiction and interpersonal conflicts over the course of one day.

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Antigone

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Sophocles - A play centered around the conflict between civic duty and family loyalty, as Antigone defies the king to bury her brother.

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Twelfth Night

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William Shakespeare - A comedic tale of mistaken identity, love triangles, and jovial pranks.

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Pygmalion

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George Bernard Shaw - A play about a phonetics professor who makes a bet that he can train a flower girl to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party.

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The Importance of Being Earnest

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Oscar Wilde - A comedic play that satirizes the absurdities of Victorian society, particularly concerning love and marriage.

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Hamlet

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William Shakespeare - A tragedy about a Danish prince seeking revenge for his father's murder.

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The Crucible

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Arthur Miller - A dramatized story of the Salem witch trials that serves as an allegory of McCarthyism.

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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

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Edward Albee - A darkly comedic play depicting the caustic and intense relationship between a middle-aged couple, George and Martha.

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Six Characters in Search of an Author

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Luigi Pirandello - An absurdist metatheatrical play where six unfinished characters interrupt a theater rehearsal in search of an author to complete their story.

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A Streetcar Named Desire

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Tennessee Williams - A Southern belle's descent into madness after losing her ancestral estate to creditors.

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The Glass Menagerie

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Tennessee Williams - A memory play about the Wingfield family and their internal and external struggles to cope with their past and future.

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No Exit

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Jean-Paul Sartre - A play that explores existentialist themes through the story of three deceased characters unable to leave a room, famously concluding 'Hell is other people'.

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The Phantom of the Opera

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Gaston Leroux - Although known primarily as a musical, this story originated as a French novel about a deformed composer haunting the Paris Opera House and his obsession with a young soprano.

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Death of a Salesman

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Arthur Miller - An examination of the American dream through the life of a failing salesman, Willy Loman.

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Uncle Vanya

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Anton Chekhov - A dramatic play about the wasted lives of a retired professor and his family on a rural estate in Russia.

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Oedipus Rex

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Sophocles - A tragic Greek play about a king who inadvertently fulfills a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.

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