Plays
- Joseph Addison
- Cato
- Albert Camus
- Caligula
- Henrik Ibsen
- Emperor and Galilean
- Ben Jonson
- Sejanus, His Fall
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Die Hermannsschlacht
- William Shakespeare
- Titus Andronicus
- Julius Caesar
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Robert Sherwood
- The Road to Rome (1927), on which a little-known 1955 film Jupiter's Darling was based.
- Stephen Sondheim
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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Famous quotes containing the word plays:
“Better to be despised and have a servant, than to be self-important and lack food.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 12:9.
RSV translation reads, “Better is a man of humble standing who works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.”
“The string quartet plays for itself,
gently, gently, sleeves and waxy bows.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“The hare grows old as she plays in the sun
And gazes around her with eyes of brightness;
Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done
She limps along in an aged whiteness....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)