18 must-read plays books like Snow in Mid summer by Guan Hanqing

Snow in Mid summer

By: Guan Hanqing

3.59

Format: None pages, None

Guan Hanqing (c. 1241-1320), also known under the sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio", was a notab…

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Cover of The Good Woman of Setzuan by Bertolt Brecht, Eric Bentley

1. The Good Woman of Setzuan

By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley

3.67

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In 1952, Hannah Arendt hailed Bertolt Brecht as "beyond a doubt the greatest living German poet and… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • drama
"Carpenter: "Call Shen Te, someone! She's good!" Shui Ta: "Certainly. She's ruined."

-Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan

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2. The London Merchant

By: George Lillo

2.89

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. … read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • drama
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3. Everyman

By: Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Format: 52 pages, Paperback

Everyman is a medieval morality play that was first performed in the late 15th century. The play te… read more

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  • classics
  • school
  • drama
Cover of The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux, Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

4. The Phantom of the Opera

By: Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

Format: 360 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published in French as a serial in 1909, The Phantom of the Opera is a riveting story that re… read more

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  • classics
"He laid at my feet his immense, tragic love."

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"All I wanted was to be loved for myself." (Erik)"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"My lies were as hideous as the monster that had inspired them"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

"I am the little boy who went into the sea to rescue your scarf"

-Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera

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5. Sweat

By: Lynn Nottage

4.06

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

In one of the poorest cities in America, Reading, Pennsylvania, a group of down-and-out factory wor… read more

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  • school
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Cover of The Little Clay Cart (Clay Sanskrit Library) by Shudraka, Partha Chatterjee, Diwakar Acharya

6. The Little Clay Cart (Clay Sanskrit Library)

By: Shudraka , Partha Chatterjee , Diwakar Acharya

3.51

Format: 674 pages, Hardcover

The “Little Clay Cart” is, for Sanskrit theatre, atypically romantic, funny, and thrilling. This mo… read more

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  • classics
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  • drama
"Clouds, harnessed in the lightening's gleams Like charging elephants dash by. At Indra's bidding, pour their streams Until with silver cords it seems That earth is linked with sky"

-Shudraka, The Little Clay Cart (Clay Sanskrit Library)

Cover of Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare, Folger Shakespeare Library

7. Twelfth Night

By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library

3.95

Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more

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  • classics
  • school
"a raven's heart within a dove."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"I pity you That's a degree to love"

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

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8. Lysistrata

By: Aristophanes , Sarah Ruden

3.87

Format: 132 pages, Paperback

Aristophanes' comic masterpiece of war and sex remains one of the greatest plays ever written. Led … read more

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"Sənət çörək arxasınca qaçarsa, alçalar"

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Lysistrata: To seize the treasury; no more money, no more war."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Queste donne micidiali, non si può vivere nè con loro nè senza di loro."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

"Chorus of old men: How true the saying: 'Tis impossible to live with the baggages, impossible to live without 'em."

-Aristophanes, Lysistrata

Cover of Tartuffe by Martin Sorrell, Molière, Curtis Hidden Page

9. Tartuffe

By: Martin Sorrell , Molière , Curtis Hidden Page

4.14

Format: None pages, Paperback

Condemned and banned for five years in Moliere's day, Tartuffe is a satire on religious hypocrisy. … read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • school
Cover of Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1) by Sophocles, J.E. Thomas, Elizabeth Osborne

10. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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11. The Story of an Hour

By: Kate Chopin

4.07

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

In these four stories, Kate Chopin subtly captures the intricate interior lives of a generation of … read more

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  • classics
  • school
"Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

"there would be no powerful will binding hers in that blind persistence with which men and women believe they have a right to impose a private will upon a fellow creature…And yet she had loved him- so…"

-Kate Chopin, The Story of an Hour

Cover of Frogs by Aristophanes, Arthur Sidgwick

12. Frogs

By: Aristophanes , Arthur Sidgwick

3.58

Format: 448 pages, Paperback

The Frogs (Ancient Greek: Batrakhoi, Batrachoi) is a comedy written by the Greek playwright Aristop… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello, Edward Storer

13. Six Characters in Search of an Author

By: Luigi Pirandello , Edward Storer

3.91

Format: 337 pages, Paperback

One of the major figures of modern theater, Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) wrote dramas and satires t… read more

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  • plays
  • drama
Cover of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Richard Andrews, Rex Gibson

14. Hamlet

By: William Shakespeare , Richard Andrews , Rex Gibson

4.02

Format: 289 pages, Paperback

Among Shakespeare's plays, "Hamlet" is considered by many his masterpiece. Among actors, the role o… read more

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"Therein lies the rub."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"Conscience doth make cowards of us all."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

"A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."

-William Shakespeare, Hamlet

15. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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16. The Second Shepherd's Play

By: Wakefield Master

4.42

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Lisl Beer adapted this famous play from the Towley Manuscript of Old English. As observed in FaceBo… read more

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Cover of A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, Michael   Meyer

17. A Doll's House

By: Henrik Ibsen , Michael Meyer

3.76

Format: 122 pages, Paperback

A Doll's House (1879), is a masterpiece of theatrical craft which, for the first time portrayed the… read more

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  • classics
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"Laughter's all the damned thing's fit for."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"I must make up my mind which is right – society or I."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"لن تفقدوني طويلاً، فالراحلون سرعان ما ينطوون في زوايا النسيان."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

"أنا ارى الناس صنفين .. صنف تعشقه المرأة، وصنف تحب أن تتجاذب معه أطراف الحديث."

-Henrik Ibsen, A Doll's House

18. The Crucible

By: Arthur Miller , Christopher Bigsby

3.60

Format: 137 pages, Paperback

"I believe that the reader will discover here the essential nature of one of the strangest and most… read more

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19. The Seagull

By: Anton Chekhov , Michael Frayn

4.62

Format: None pages, Paperback

A Methuen Student Edition of Chekhov's classic play in Michael Frayn's acclaimed translation. When … read more

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20. La vida es sueño

By: Pedro Calderón de la Barca , None

4.33

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

He aqui la creacion mas lograda y de caracter mas universal de Calderon. La vida es suenoes, en sin… read more

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21. Cyclops

By: Euripides , David Konstan , Heather McHugh

3.80

Format: 220 pages, Paperback

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create th… read more

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22. The Cherry Orchard

By: Anton Chekhov , Tom Murphy

4.29

Format: 156 pages, Paperback

Published to tie in with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin In Chekhov's tragi-comedy … read more

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23. The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

3.00

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

More widely studied and more frequently performed than ever before, John Webster's The Duchess of M… read more

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24. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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25. Measure for Measure

By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine

4.38

Format: 83 pages, Paperback

Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more

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Cover of Sovereignty: A Play by Mary Kathryn Nagle

26. Sovereignty: A Play

By: Mary Kathryn Nagle

4.01

Format: 134 pages, Paperback

Sovereignty unfolds over two parallel timelines. In present-day Oklahoma, a young Cherokee lawyer, … read more

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Cover of Valor, agravio y mujer (Biblioteca de Escritoras) by Ana Caro Mallén de Soto

27. Valor, agravio y mujer (Biblioteca de Escritoras)

By: Ana Caro Mallén de Soto

3.59

Format: 185 pages, Paperback

Ana Caro [...] admitida en los altos círculos de la nobleza cercana al Conde Duque de Olivares, no … read more

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Cover of Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse) by Olivia A. Cole

28. Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

By: Olivia A. Cole

4.30

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

This searing and intimate novel in verse follows a sixteen-year-old girl coping with sexual abuse a… read more

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"I remember the thing that I saw on Tumblr, how people with trauma will sometimes reexpose themselves to it, salt in the wound to stay alive. I am tired of salting the wound - I am ready to salt the e…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My hair is the color of a dart frog: generations of death adapting into this exact shade of poison ...bright red and orange, the colors of pain, I WILL MAKE YOU SICK I WILL KILL YOU FROM INSIDE YOUR …"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"The last barbecue I went to was at Sarah's house and I almost text her to tell her how when you have so many memories with one person, it's like a crime scene after they're gone. Fingerprints everywh…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

"My mother thinks I’ve dyed my hair red for attention— How can I explain to her the ways that she is right and wrong. As of last night, my hair is the color of a brick the moment before it goes throug…"

-Olivia A. Cole, Dear Medusa (A Novel in Verse)

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29. Atsumori

By: Zeami

3.26

Format: 40 pages, ebook

The japanese Noh drama by the Master Zeami Motokiyo about the Buddhist priest Rensei and the warrio… read more

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30. Snow in Mid summer

By: Guan Hanqing

3.59

Format: None pages, None

Guan Hanqing (c. 1241-1320), also known under the sobriquet "the Oldman of the Studio", was a notab… read more

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  • chinese literature
  • asian literature
  • china
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Cover of Dulcitius Abraham by Hrotsvitha

31. Dulcitius Abraham

By: Hrotsvitha

2.91

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

Dulcitius is a Latin comedy written by Hrosvitha of Gandersheim, a member of the female Abbey of Ga… read more

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17 must-read classics books like Snow in Mid summer by Guan Hanqing

Transform Your Habits

The Good Woman of Setzuan

Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley

3.67

Transform Your Habits

The London Merchant

George Lillo

2.89

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Everyman

Anonymous , Unknown

3.27

Transform Your Habits

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

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Transform Your Habits

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë , Michael Mason

4.15

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The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux , Alexander Teixeira de Mattos

3.96

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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë , Richard J. Dunn

3.89

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

4.06

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