We have a number of in-depth guides to classic plays. Discover some of the best plays and dramatic criticism ever written with our interesting guides to these texts spanning several millennia of theatre.
Shakespeare
Summary and analysis of A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Summary and analysis of All’s Well That Ends Well
Summary and analysis of Hamlet
Summary and analysis of Henry V
Summary and analysis of King John
Summary and analysis of King Lear
Summary and analysis of Macbeth
Summary and analysis of Much Ado about Nothing
Summary and analysis of Othello
Summary and analysis of Richard III
Summary and analysis of Romeo and Juliet
Summary and analysis of The Tempest
Summary and analysis of Timon of Athens
Summary and analysis of Twelfth Night
Samuel Beckett
T. S. Eliot
Henrik Ibsen
Arthur Miller
John Osborne
Harold Pinter
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author
George Bernard Shaw
Classical Plays
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Aeschylus, The Persians
Aristophanes, Assemblywomen
Aristophanes, The Frogs
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
Aristotle, Poetics
Euripides, Helen
Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis
Sophocles, Antigone
Sophocles, Oedipus the King