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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Little Marinetta lives in her very own room at the top of an old dolls' house.

The Way IT Is is a very playful inquiry into the fundamental nature of reality.

Who was Hitchcock? A fat man who played practical jokes on people?

Uncle Vanya is one of Anton Checkov's four major plays.

The School for Scandal debuted at Drury Lane Theater in London in 1777.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge said of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist that it had one out of the three.

Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words.