📚 Plays & Drama

Writing meant to be performed, not only read — tragedy, comedy and the stage, from the Athenian festival to the modern theatre.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject drama in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Hamlet	William Shakespeare	1603	2,494
	Othello	William Shakespeare	1622	1,949
	Faust	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1800	621
	The Importance of Being Earnest	Oscar Wilde	1893	455
	A Doll's House	Henrik Ibsen	1889	255
	Дядя Ваня	Антон Павлович Чехов	1897	222
	En attendant Godot	Samuel Beckett	1952	201
	The Alchemist, 1612	Ben Jonson	1612	200
	Οἰδίπους Τύραννος (Oidípous Týrannos)	Sophocles	1715	188
	A Woman of No Importance	Oscar Wilde	1893	176
	Major Barbara	George Bernard Shaw	1909	175
	The Way of the World	William Congreve	1700	174
	The school for scandal, 1780	Richard Brinsley Sheridan	1778	164
	Medea	Euripides	1703	157
	Candida	George Bernard Shaw	1905	152
	Вишневый сад	Антон Павлович Чехов	1918	152
	R.U.R. and The insect play	Karel Čapek	1920	148
	Peer Gynt	Henrik Ibsen	1867	111
	Antigone	Sophocles	1581	98
	Cato	Joseph Addison	1713	93
	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	1940	90
	Doctor Faustus	Christopher Marlowe	1662	89
	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	1953	83
	A Raisin in the Sun	Lorraine Hansberry	1958	80
	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Tennessee Williams	1944	69
	A Streetcar Named Desire	Tennessee Williams	1947	69
	Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are dead	Tom Stoppard	1967	55
	Woyzeck	Georg Büchner	1900	52
	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	1962	51
	An Inspector Calls	J. B. Priestley	1945	47

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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