Subject: Historical drama

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Hamlet by William Shakespeare (31,534 copies)
Macbeth by William Shakespeare (25,075 copies)
The Crucible by Arthur Miller (14,857 copies)
Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott (12,543 copies)
Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand (7,161 copies)
The Tragedy of Richard the Third by William Shakespeare (5,945 copies)
Henry V by William Shakespeare (5,776 copies)
Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare (4,836 copies)
Richard II by William Shakespeare (3,998 copies)
A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt (2,991 copies)
Murder in the Cathedral by T. S. Eliot (2,990 copies)
Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (2,578 copies)
Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht (2,493 copies)
Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare (2,438 copies)
Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence (2,293 copies)
Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw (2,239 copies)
Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare (2,231 copies)
Fences by August Wilson (1,720 copies)
The Miracle Worker [play] by William Gibson (1,703 copies)
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe (1,636 copies)
King John by William Shakespeare (1,338 copies)
Henry VIII by William Shakespeare (1,334 copies)
The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as… by Peter Weiss (1,206 copies)
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (1,084 copies)
Henry VI, Part 1 by William Shakespeare (1,029 copies)
Becket by Jean Anouilh (918 copies)
The Piano Lesson by August Wilson (884 copies)
Henry VI, Part 3 by William Shakespeare (835 copies)
Caligula and Three Other Plays by Albert Camus (731 copies)
The Lion in Winter by James Goldman (651 copies)
Caesar and Cleopatra by George Bernard Shaw (599 copies)
Tiger at the Gates by Jean Giraudoux (596 copies)
Edward II by Christopher Marlowe (568 copies)
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of… by John Julius Norwich (525 copies)
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom by August Wilson (451 copies)
The Elephant Man [play] by Bernard Pomerance (446 copies)
The Complete Plays: The Histories by William Shakespeare (428 copies)
Joe Turner's Come and Gone by August Wilson (413 copies)
The Deputy by Rolf Hochhuth (402 copies)
The Portable Arthur Miller by Arthur Miller (397 copies)
King Henry VI, Parts 1, 2 & 3 by William Shakespeare (395 copies)
Three Plays for Puritans by Bernard Shaw (362 copies)
The Lark by Jean Anouilh (350 copies)
2 Plays: Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II by William Shakespeare (315 copies)
Luther by John Osborne (280 copies)
The Historical Novel by Georg Lukacs (275 copies)
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama by Peter Saccio (274 copies)
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of… by Clare Asquith (252 copies)
I Am My Own Wife: A Play by Doug Wright (251 copies)
Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz (233 copies)
Seven Guitars by August Wilson (218 copies)
In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Heinar Kipphardt (215 copies)
Two Trains Running by August Wilson (211 copies)
John Adams [2008 TV mini series] by Tom Hooper (172 copies)
2 Plays: Timon of Athens; Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (170 copies)
Voyage: The Coast of Utopia, Part I by Tom Stoppard (170 copies)
Shadowlands by William Nicholson (170 copies)
A Bright Room Called Day by Tony Kushner (160 copies)
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot by Stephen Adly Guirgis (155 copies)
Gem of the Ocean by August Wilson (152 copies)
Indians: A Play by Arthur Kopit (151 copies)
Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka (147 copies)
4 Plays: Henry IV, Part I; Henry IV, Part II; Henry V;… by William Shakespeare (138 copies)
Shipwreck: The Coast of Utopia, Part II by Tom Stoppard (136 copies)
2 Plays: Henry VIII; King John by William Shakespeare (130 copies)
Broken Glass by Arthur Miller (128 copies)
The Trial of the Catonsville Nine by Daniel Berrigan (126 copies)
Marx in Soho: A Play on History by Howard Zinn (126 copies)
Salvage: The Coast of Utopia, Part III by Tom Stoppard (126 copies)
King Hedley II by August Wilson (125 copies)
Madame de Sade by Yukio Mishima (123 copies)
Saint Joan, Major Barbara, Androcles and the Lion by Bernard Shaw (123 copies)
The Belle of Amherst by William Luce (116 copies)
One Day When I Was Lost: A Scenario Based on Alex Haley's… by James Baldwin (111 copies)
Cato: A Tragedy and Selected Essays by Joseph Addison (107 copies)
Democracy: A Play by Michael Frayn (96 copies)
Mad Forest: A Play from Romania by Caryl Churchill (93 copies)
Three Plays : 'Tis Pity She's A Whore; The Broken Heart;… by John Ford (87 copies)
Emma by Howard Zinn (82 copies)
The Judas Kiss by David Hare (79 copies)
Hal Holbrook: Mark Twain Tonight! [1967 TV special] by Paul Bogart (75 copies)
Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein: A… by Marty Martin (74 copies)
A Season in the Congo by Aimé Césaire (72 copies)
An Evening with Richard Nixon by Gore Vidal (70 copies)
Terra Nova. by Ted Tally (67 copies)
Edward II: A Chronicle Play by Bertolt Brecht (66 copies)
In white America, a documentary play by Martin B. Duberman (66 copies)
Virginia: A Play by Edna O'Brien (65 copies)
Shakespeare: The Histories: A Collection of Critical Essays by Eugene M. Waith (65 copies)
Elizabeth Rex by Timothy Findley (63 copies)
3 Plays: Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare (62 copies)
Buchanan Dying : A Play by John Updike (59 copies)
The Darker Face of the Earth by Rita Dove (59 copies)
August Wilson: Three Plays by August Wilson (48 copies)
Shakespeare Made Easy: Henry IV, Part I by William Shakespeare (47 copies)
Billy Budd: based on the novel by Herman Melville by Louis O. Coxe (46 copies)
Two Shakespearean Actors by Richard Nelson (43 copies)
Shakespeare's Henry IV by Harold Bloom (39 copies)
Sylvia Plath, a dramatic portrait (Perennial library ; P… by Barry Kyle (36 copies)
Caesar at the Rubicon: A Play About Politics by Theodore H. White (35 copies)
Mary Stuart / The Maid of Orleans by Friedrich Schiller (33 copies)
Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles by Phyllis Rackin (31 copies)
Elizabeth R (Plays of the year special) by J. C. Trewin (28 copies)
James the Fourth (Revels Plays) by Robert Greene (28 copies)
Perkin Warbeck by John Ford (26 copies)
History Plays (PAJ Books) by Charles L. Mee (25 copies)
Doctor Johnson : a play by A. Edward Newton (24 copies)
Lord Alfred's Lover by Eric Bentley (23 copies)
Speak of the Devil by John Dickson Carr (21 copies)
The Incomparable Max: A Play by Jerome Lawrence (21 copies)
Rival Queens (Regents Restoration Drama Series) by Nathaniel Lee (20 copies)
Lucius Junius Brutus by Nathaniel Lee (19 copies)
2 Plays: Henry VI, Part II; Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare (18 copies)
The Churchill play : as it will be performed in the winter… by Howard Brenton (17 copies)
Shakespeare's Holinshed; the Chronicle and the plays… by Raphael Holinshed (17 copies)
Aureng-Zebe by John Dryden (17 copies)
Shakespeare's heraldry by Charles Wilfred Scott-Giles (15 copies)
Shakespeare's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Plays… by W. G. Boswell-Stone (13 copies)
The Tragedy of Richard II by Robert J. Myers (12 copies)
The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare by Irving Ribner (12 copies)
Tom Paine by Paul Foster (11 copies)
Manners and Movements in Costume Plays by Isabel Chisman (10 copies)
The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV: By Thomas… by Richard Rowland (9 copies)
Life Without Instruction by Sally Clark (9 copies)
The Gathering Storm: Shakespeare's English and Roman… by Paul N. Siegel (9 copies)
Coming out! : a documentary play about gay life &… by Jonathan Katz (8 copies)
The lost garden : a view of Shakespeare's English and Roman… by John Wilders (8 copies)
Divine providence in the England of Shakespeare's… by Henry Ansgar Kelly (8 copies)
Eleanora Antinova Plays by Eleanor Antin (7 copies)
Blow, silver wind : a story of Norwegian immigration to… by Erik Bye (7 copies)
Conversations in Tusculum: A Play by Richard Nelson (7 copies)
Bully: An adventure with Teddy Roosevelt by Jerome Alden (7 copies)
The weak king dilemma in the Shakespearean history play by Michael Manheim (6 copies)
All Powers Necessary and Convenient: A Play of Fact and… by M. F. O. Jenkins (6 copies)
World historical plays by August Strindberg (6 copies)
King Edward the First by George Peele (6 copies)
Bingo & The Sea: Two plays (A Mermaid dramabook) by Edward Bond (6 copies)
The Sense of History in Greek and Shakespearean Drama by Tom Faw Driver (5 copies)
Conscience and conflict : a trilogy of one-actor plays :… by Anthony T. Padovano (4 copies)
A Lovely Light by Dorothy Stickney (4 copies)
August Wilson and Black Aesthetics by Sandra G. Shannon (4 copies)
The Common Glory by Paul Green (4 copies)
Moby Dick;: A play for radio from Herman Melville's novel by Henry Reed (3 copies)
Mr. Joyce is leaving Paris by Tom Gallacher (3 copies)
Logan, the Last of the Race of Shikellemus, Chief of the… by Joseph Doddridge (3 copies)
Ezra's Noh for Willie and Other Plays by Frances Benn Hall (1 copies)
Lectures on four of Shakespeare's history plays (1 copies)
A pleasaunt comedie of the life of Will Shakspeare, player… by Harry Bache Smith (1 copies)
Rob Roy by Robert Kemp (1 copies)
English history in Shakespeare's plays by Beverley E. Warner (1 copies)