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Reading list · 11 plays

Plays About Marriage

Marriage as institution, contract, comedy, tragedy, and prison has been one of the theatre's recurring subjects. The list below gathers the works in our archive most directly engaged with it.

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  1. Lady Windermere's Fan

    by Oscar Wilde · 1900 · Drama

    Lady Windermere's Fan (first published 1900) is a stage play by Oscar Wilde, a touchstone of the Realism & Naturalism repertoire that has been performed continuously for generations.

  2. Othello

    by William Shakespeare · 1616 · Tragedy

    William Shakespeare's Othello (first published 1616) is a script directors return to whenever they want a vehicle that combines language of real beauty with characters actors actually fight to play.

  3. The Tinker's Wedding

    by J. M. (John Millington) Synge · 1909 · Drama

    The Tinker's Wedding (first published 1909) is a stage play by J. M. (John Millington) Synge, a touchstone of the Realism & Naturalism repertoire that has been performed continuously for generations.

  4. A Doll's House : a play

    by Henrik Ibsen · 1906 · Verse Drama

    A Doll's House : a play (first published 1906) is a stage play by Henrik Ibsen, a touchstone of the Romantic Drama repertoire that has been performed continuously for generations.

  5. How He Lied to Her Husband

    by Bernard Shaw · 1950 · Drama

    How He Lied to Her Husband (first published 1950) is a stage play by Bernard Shaw, a touchstone of the Realism & Naturalism repertoire that has been performed continuously for generations.

  6. Candida

    by Bernard Shaw · 1950 · Drama

    Bernard Shaw's Candida (first published 1950) is a script directors return to whenever they want a vehicle that combines language of real beauty with characters actors actually fight to play.

  7. The Philanderer

    by Bernard Shaw · 1950 · Drama

    Bernard Shaw's The Philanderer (first published 1950) is a script directors return to whenever they want a vehicle that combines language of real beauty with characters actors actually fight to play.

  8. Getting Married

    by Bernard Shaw · 1950 · Drama

    Bernard Shaw's Getting Married (first published 1950) is a script directors return to whenever they want a vehicle that combines language of real beauty with characters actors actually fight to play.

  9. A Doll's House

    by Henrik Ibsen · 1906 · Verse Drama

    Written by Henrik Ibsen (first published 1906), A Doll's House stands as one of the durable works of Romantic Drama, regularly revived for its richly playable scenes and theatrically generous structure.

  10. The Disguising at Hertford

    by John Lydgate · 1451 · One-Act Play

    The Disguising at Hertford (first published 1451) is a stage play by John Lydgate, a touchstone of the Medieval Drama repertoire that has been performed continuously for generations.

  11. The Triple Marriage

    by Néricault Destouches · 1754 · Drama

    Néricault Destouches's The Triple Marriage (first published 1754) is a script directors return to whenever they want a vehicle that combines language of real beauty with characters actors actually fight to play.

How this list was put together

The selections above were drawn from the full Stage Pages archive of 520 public-domain stage plays. Where ranking is implied by the order, that ranking is editorial — defensible, but not unanimous. Where the list is alphabetical or chronological, we say so.

If you have a candidate we missed, the whole library is one click away from the main scripts index; we add titles to lists as the catalogue grows.