Category:Historical plays

• Historical musicals (10 C, 3 P)

E

• Plays about the English Civil War (4 P)

F

• Plays about the French Wars of Religion (2 P)

H

• Historical pageants (13 P)

I

• Plays about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (11 P)

M

• Plays about the Mexican Revolution (1 C)

P

• Plays by period of setting (5 C)
• Plays about the Soviet–Afghan War (2 P)
• Plays based on actual events (5 C, 174 P)

R

• Plays set in the Russian Empire (13 P)

S

• Shakespearean histories (4 C, 11 P)

W

• Plays about the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (4 P)
• Plays about World War I (1 C, 37 P)
• Plays about World War II (4 C, 40 P)

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• History (theatrical genre)

A

• Adelaide (1800 play)
• Adelgitha
• Alzuma
• The Ambitious Statesman
• Amy Robsart (play)
• Antonio (play)
• The Athenian Captive

B

• The Battle of Eddington
• The Battle of Hexham
• Ben Nazir, the Saracen
• Braganza (play)
• Brutus (play)
• Brutus of Alba (play)

C

• Cambro-Britons
• Charles the First (play)
• Charles the Second (play)
• Columbus (play)
• Conscience (play)
• Cortez (play)
• The Curfew (play)

D

• David Garrick (play)
• The Days of Yore
• The Duchess de la Vallière

E

• Edgar (play)
• Edwy and Elgiva
• El Palacio de Medrano
• England Preserved

F

• The Fair Captive
• The Family Legend
• The Fatal Constancy
• The Father and the Assassin
• Faulkener (play)
• The Female Prelate
• Foscari (play)
• Francis the First (play)
• Fredolfo
• French history in the English-speaking theatre
• The French Libertine

G

• Don Pedro, King of Castile
• Gisippus
• Glencoe (play)

H

• The Hebrew (play)
• How Are They at Home?

I

• The Imperial Captives
• Ingomar the Barbarian (play)
• Ion (Talfourd play)

J

• Jane Shore (play)
• Joanna of Montfaucon
• Julian (play)

K

• Kanta (play)
• Kenilworth (play)
• Khayyam (play)

L

• The Little Glass Clock
• Love and Duty (play)
• Love's Victory (Hyde play)

M

• Mālavikāgnimitram
• Manuel (play)
• Mary Stuart (Haynes play)
• Mary, Queen of Scots (play)
• Master Clarke
• The Merchant of London
• The Minister and the Mercer
• The Moonraker (play)

P

• Pizarro (play)
• The Provost of Bruges

R

• The Rest is Silence (play)
• Rienzi (play)
• The Rival Sisters (Murphy play)
• The Roman Empress

S

• The Sibyl (play)
• The Siege of Meaux
• The Siege of St Quintin
• Skirgaila (play)
• Strathmore (play)
• The Surrender of Calais
• Swedish Patriotism

T

• Tamerlane (play)
• Thank You, Mr. Pepys!
• The Road (play)
• Thyestes (play)
• Toga play
• Tryphon (play)

V

• The Venetian (play)
• The Vespers of Palermo
• Virginius (play)
• The Voice of Nature

W

• Wallace (play)
• The Wife's Secret

Y

• The Youthful Days of Frederick the Great

Z

• Zorinski