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Once In A While (Modern Plays) — Paul Godfrey

Once In A While (Modern Plays)

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Four Comedies — John Vanbrugh

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Rose Rage: Adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays (Oberon Modern Plays) — Edward Hall

Rose Rage: Adapted from Shakespeare’s Henry VI plays (Oberon Modern Plays)

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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark — William Shakespeare

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

William Shakespeare

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Freshwater: A Comedy — Virginia Woolf

Freshwater: A Comedy

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House of Agnes (Modern Plays) — Levi David Addai

House of Agnes (Modern Plays)

Levi David Addai

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The Best Plays Of The Old Dramatists: Thomas Heywood — Thomas Heywood

The Best Plays Of The Old Dramatists: Thomas Heywood

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Our Man in Havana (Oberon Modern Plays) — Graham Greene

Our Man in Havana (Oberon Modern Plays)

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The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library) — William Shakespeare

The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)

William Shakespeare

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The Investigation – Auschw (English Version By Alexander Gross) — Peter Weiss

The Investigation – Auschw (English Version By Alexander Gross)

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Dangerous Corner (Oberon Modern Plays) — J. B. Priestley

Dangerous Corner (Oberon Modern Plays)

J. B. Priestley

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

I’m Talking about Jerusalem — Arnold Wesker

I’m Talking about Jerusalem

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Waiting for Godot Tragicomedy in Two Acts — Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot Tragicomedy in Two Acts

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Voyage Round my Father and Other Plays (Penguin Plays) — John Mortimer

Voyage Round my Father and Other Plays (Penguin Plays)

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The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Plays, Penguin) — Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Plays, Penguin)

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Time and the Conways (Acting Edition ) — J. B. Priestly

Time and the Conways (Acting Edition )

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Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays — Coventry Corpus Christi plays

Two Coventry Corpus Christi Plays

Coventry Corpus Christi plays

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Amobarbital Effects and Lateralized Brain Function: The Wada Test — David W. Loring

Amobarbital Effects and Lateralized Brain Function: The Wada Test

David W. Loring

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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Playscript. Parts one and two — Jack Thorne

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Playscript. Parts one and two

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

McLean Plays: 1: Julie Allardyce; Blackden; Rug Comes to Shuv; One Sure Thing; I’d Rather Go Blind (Contemporary Dramatists) — Duncan McLean

McLean Plays: 1: Julie Allardyce; Blackden; Rug Comes to Shuv; One Sure Thing; I’d Rather Go Blind (Contemporary Dramatists)

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Calico (Oberon Modern Plays) — Michael Hastings

Calico (Oberon Modern Plays)

Michael Hastings

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Mrs. Klein — Nicholas Wright

Nicholas Wright

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No Fear : Hamlet — Sparknotes Editors

No Fear : Hamlet

Sparknotes Editors

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Burnt by the Sun — Nikita Mikhalkov

Burnt by the Sun

Nikita Mikhalkov

Themes: BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR)

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Major Barbara by Bernard Shaw. Connected by BRITISH AND IRISH DRAMA (DRAMATIC WORKS BY ONE AUTHOR). Authors featured include Paul Godfrey, John Vanbrugh, Edward Hall, William Shakespeare, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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