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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 644 times as theater)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,064,013 ratings — published 1601
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 629 times as theater)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,842,773 ratings — published 1590
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 535 times as theater)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,031,432 ratings — published 1623
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 436 times as theater)
avg rating 3.94 — 582,719 ratings — published 1595
Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as theater)
avg rating 3.84 — 224,323 ratings — published 1951
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 371 times as theater)
avg rating 3.89 — 440,270 ratings — published 1603
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 311 times as theater)
avg rating 3.91 — 239,359 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 303 times as theater)
avg rating 3.78 — 229,394 ratings — published 1611
The Importance of Being Earnest (Paperback)
by (shelved 298 times as theater)
avg rating 4.17 — 408,960 ratings — published 1895
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 280 times as theater)
avg rating 3.98 — 336,735 ratings — published 1947
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 270 times as theater)
avg rating 3.59 — 261,262 ratings — published 1949
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 255 times as theater)
avg rating 4.06 — 260,094 ratings — published 1598
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as theater)
avg rating 3.61 — 468,110 ratings — published 1953
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 250 times as theater)
avg rating 3.71 — 221,302 ratings — published 1599
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 242 times as theater)
avg rating 3.96 — 195,933 ratings — published 1623
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 224 times as theater)
avg rating 3.77 — 204,259 ratings — published 1596
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 222 times as theater)
avg rating 3.73 — 239,450 ratings — published -429
A Doll's House (Paperback)
by (shelved 221 times as theater)
avg rating 3.77 — 166,115 ratings — published 1879
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 215 times as theater)
avg rating 3.73 — 181,565 ratings — published 1593
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 211 times as theater)
avg rating 3.69 — 179,097 ratings — published -441
The Glass Menagerie (Paperback)
by (shelved 196 times as theater)
avg rating 3.74 — 144,025 ratings — published 1945
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 186 times as theater)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,478 ratings — published 1967
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 166 times as theater)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,149,508 ratings — published 2016
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as theater)
avg rating 3.81 — 89,729 ratings — published 1599
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as theater)
avg rating 4.06 — 73,997 ratings — published 1962
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as theater)
avg rating 3.95 — 88,490 ratings — published -431
Lysistrata (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as theater)
avg rating 3.87 — 53,964 ratings — published -423
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as theater)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,124 ratings — published 1593
Tartuffe (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as theater)
avg rating 3.66 — 43,687 ratings — published 1664
A Raisin in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 126 times as theater)
avg rating 3.85 — 112,137 ratings — published 1959
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theater)
avg rating 3.84 — 53,696 ratings — published 1599
Cyrano de Bergerac (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as theater)
avg rating 4.06 — 91,570 ratings — published 1897
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as theater)
avg rating 4.06 — 64,808 ratings — published 1955
Our Town (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as theater)
avg rating 3.75 — 59,630 ratings — published 1938
Pygmalion (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as theater)
avg rating 3.88 — 110,439 ratings — published 1913
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as theater)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,414 ratings — published -458
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as theater)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,999 ratings — published 1588
The Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as theater)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,725 ratings — published 1895
The Cherry Orchard (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as theater)
avg rating 3.69 — 45,898 ratings — published 1903
Long Day’s Journey into Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as theater)
avg rating 4.06 — 43,248 ratings — published 1956
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as theater)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,600 ratings — published 1957
Hamilton: The Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as theater)
avg rating 4.45 — 55,094 ratings — published 2015
Hedda Gabler (Paperback)
by (shelved 94 times as theater)
avg rating 3.83 — 39,813 ratings — published 1890
Six Characters in Search of an Author (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as theater)
avg rating 3.83 — 22,864 ratings — published 1921
Phèdre (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as theater)
avg rating 3.69 — 25,094 ratings — published 1677
Rhinocéros (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as theater)
avg rating 3.83 — 20,321 ratings — published 1959
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as theater)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,260 ratings — published 1606
No Exit (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as theater)
avg rating 4.11 — 47,369 ratings — published 1944
The Misanthrope (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as theater)
avg rating 3.76 — 25,795 ratings — published 1666
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as theater)
avg rating 3.71 — 37,036 ratings — published 1623
“That's what I love most about writers--they're such lousy actors.”
― Death Troupe
― Death Troupe
“How hard is it, when everything encourages us to sleep, though we may look about us with conscious, clinging eyes, to wake and yet look about us as in a dream, with eyes that no longer know their function and whose gaze is turned inward.”
― The Theater and Its Double
― The Theater and Its Double












