Category:Historical plays

• Historical musicals (10 C, 3 P)

A

• Plays set in the Aztec Empire (3 P)
• Plays set in the Inca Empire (4 P)

B

• Biographical plays (15 C, 28 P)
• Plays set in the Byzantine Empire (6 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)

O

• Plays set in the Ottoman Empire (1 C, 18 P)

P

• Plays by period of setting (5 C)
• Plays about the Soviet–Afghan War (2 P)
• Plays based on actual events (5 C, 184 P)

R

• Plays set in the Russian Empire (22 P)

S

• Shakespearean histories (6 C, 11 P)

W

• Plays about the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (4 P)
• Plays about World War I (1 C, 39 P)
• Plays about World War II (4 C, 50 P)

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• History (theatrical genre)

A

• Adelaide (1800 play)
• Adelgitha
• Alexander Pushkin (play)
• Amy Robsart (play)
• Antonio (play)

B

• The Battle of Hexham
• A Bequest to the Nation
• Brutus (play)

C

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

D

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

E

• England Preserved

F

• The Fair Captive
• The Family Legend
• The Father and the Assassin
• Faulkener (play)
• French history in the English-speaking theatre
• The French Libertine

H

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

I

• Ingomar the Barbarian (play)

J

• Joanna of Montfaucon

K

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

L

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

M

• Master Clarke
• The Merchant of London
• The Minister and the Mercer
• The Moonraker (play)

R

• The Rest Is Silence (play)

S

• The Siege of St Quintin
• Skirgaila (play)
• South (Play of the Week)

T

• The Road (play)
• Toga play
• Tryphon (play)

V

• The Venetian (play)
• The Voice of Nature

W

• The Wife's Secret