Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601.

The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most popular short comedy plays.

Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio.

King Lear is considered one of Shakespeare's greatest plays. King Lear decides to step down and divide his kingdom between his three daughters.

The Tempest is thought by many to be Shakespeare's greatest and most perfect play.

The Taming of the Shrew is perhaps one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays by modern standards.

Although Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar is named after the legendary Roman political leader, the central character is thought by many to be Marcus Brutus, Caesar's friend turned foe who struggles throughout the play with conflicting obligations.

Although originally classified as one of Shakespeare's comedies, All's Well That Ends Well is now more commonly classified as one of his ambiguous problem plays, so called because they defy neat classification as either comedy or tragedy.

Love's Labour's Lost is one of William Shakespeare's early comedies, believed to have been written in the mid-1590s, and first published in 1598.

Most people consider life a battle - but it is not a battle, it is a game.

Another visionary novel from the great science fiction writer H. G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau tackles the thorny issues thrown up when humankind plays God and explores notions of society and identity, bringing the mythical chimera.

What does laughter mean? What is the basal element in the laughable?

The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular.

Arms and the Man was George Bernard Shaw's first commercially successful play.

Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption.

Major Barbara is a 1905 play by George Bernard Shaw.

Salome is a tragic play written by Oscar Wilde, which tells the biblical story of Salome.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) is remembered best for his sharp wit, his comedic plays and for his contribution to aestheticism and decadence.

The Cherry Orchard was written by Chekhov as a comedy, but directed by Stanislavski as a tragedy on its premier.

G. K. Chesterton said of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson that he seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing spillikins.