Plays

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of scripted dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.

Prima Facie
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
Fat Ham
Peekaboo Rex!
Sundust (A Caldecott Honor Book)
The Unwanted Guest (The Locked Tomb, #3.5)
Lorraine Hansberry: The Life Behind A Raisin in the Sun
Let's Be Bees
Snow Road Station
The Big Slide
Elvis & Romeo (An Elvis & Romeo Book)
Let's Go! (haw êkwa!)
Marrow
Clyde's
H of H Playbook
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth: Moment by Moment
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Othello
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Crucible
A Streetcar Named Desire
Death of a Salesman
Waiting for Godot
The Tempest
King Lear
Much Ado About Nothing
Twelfth Night
A Doll's House
Hamlet by William ShakespeareThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeMacbeth by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareWaiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Best Plays Ever
876 books — 1,136 voters
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine HansberryWit by Margaret EdsonFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rain... by Ntozake ShangeHow I Learned to Drive by Paula VogelThe Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
Plays Written by Women
174 books — 38 voters

TY, Thel by Bernie DowlingWicked by Gregory MaguireLes Misérables by Victor HugoThe Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank BaumWest Side Story by Irving Shulman
Books That Were Also Broadway Plays
97 books — 68 voters
Hamlet by William ShakespeareRebecca by Daphne du MaurierMacbeth by William ShakespeareDracula by Bram StokerEmma by Jane Austen
One Name as a Title
1,130 books — 201 voters

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WildeThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferPride and Prejudice by Jane AustenGood Omens by Terry Pratchett
Best Lighthearted Literature
634 books — 504 voters


William Shakespeare
In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond...
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

George Bernard Shaw
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
George Bernard Shaw

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