[1] Greece (468-423 B.C.): Prometheus bound / Aeschylus
The Clouds / Aristophanes
Rome (200 B.C.-1st cent. A.D.): The Captives / Plautus, Titus Maccius
India (5th cent.?): Sakoontala / Kâalidâasa
China (13th or 14th cent.): The Chalk circle (anon.)
Japan (14-15th cent.?): Abstraction (anon.)
Fair ladies at a game of poem-cards / Chikamatsu Monzaemon
Medieval Europe (12th-16th cent.): Adam
Wise virgins and the foolish virgins
Farce of the worthy Master Pierre Patelin
Wandering scholar from paradise / Hans Saulo Sachs
England (13th cent.?-1777): Play of St. George (anon.)
Tragical history of Dr. Faustus / Christopher Marlowe
Every man in his humour / Ben Jonson
Woman killed with kindness / Thomas Heywood
Maid's tragedy / Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
Beaux-stratagem / George Farquhar
She stoops to conquer / Oliver Goldsmith
School for scandal / Richard Brinsley Sheridan.