Plays

Plays began life in the regularly numbered Penguin Books series for quite a bit longer than some of its cousins, maintaining (in white, with a red “P” on the spine) its place well into the fifties. The series began with Shaw in 1958, then converted to the iconic “stage lights” cover design that took the series through the sixties and much of the seventies.

As far as numbering goes, there’s no way to be gentle: this series is a bit of a mess. Penguin has mined its own back catalog plenty of times, but rarely within its own series like here: Night of the Iguana, for example, shows up no fewer than three times, and Shaw keeps popping up as well (including a break in the ISBNS, what would be L100-L104, which are in no way branded as Penguin Plays, to my knowledge). The series continues after the list below, but we’ll get to that later: As with many series of the later 1970s, Penguin played increasingly fast and loose with the branding, with PL140 (An Enemy of the People), for example, looking exactly like a main-series Penguin. Everything comes full circle.

#	Title	Author	Year	ISBN
PL1	The Doctor’s Dilemma	George Bernard Shaw	1958	0140480013
PL2	Three Plays for Puritans	George Bernard Shaw	1958	0140480021
PL3	Pygmalion	George Bernard Shaw	1959	014048003X
PL4	Plays Pleasant	George Bernard Shaw	1959	0140480048
PL5	Saint Joan	George Bernard Shaw	1959	0140480056
PL6	Man and Superman	George Bernard Shaw	1959	0140480064
PL7	Major Barbara	George Bernard Shaw	1959	0140480072
PL8	The Apple Cart	George Bernard Shaw	1960	0140480080
PL9	The Millionairess	George Bernard Shaw	1960	0140480099
PL10	Androcles and the Lion	George Bernard Shaw	1961	0140480102
PL11	Back to Methuselah	George Bernard Shaw	1961	0140480110
PL12	Plays Unpleasant	George Bernard Shaw	1959	0140480129
PL13	Rhinoceros / The Chairs / The Lesson	Eugene Ionesco	1962	0140480137
PL14	Altona / Men Without Shadows / The Flies	Jean-Paul Sartre	1962	0140480145
PL15	Sweet Bird of Youth / A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie	Tennessee Williams	1962	0140480153
PL16	Plays	Oscar Wilde	1954	0140480161
PL17	Anna Christie / The Emperor Jones / Desire Under the Elms	Eugene O’Neill	1960	014048017X
PL18	Ah, Wilderness! / The Hairy Ape / All God’s Chillun Got Wings	Eugene O’Neill	1960	0140480188
PL19	Roots	Arnold Wesker	1959	0140480196
PL20	Three Tragedies	Frederico Garcia Lorca	1961	014048020X
PL21	The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real	Tennessee Williams	1958	0140480218
PL22	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Tennessee Williams	1957	0140480226
PL23	A Streetcar Named Desire / The Glass Menagerie	Tennessee Williams	1959	0140480234
PL24	Orpheus Descending / Something Unspoken / Suddenly Last Summer	Tennessee Williams	1961	0140480242
PL25	I’m Talking About Jerusalem	Arnold Wesker	1960	0140480250
PL26	The Dream of Peter Mann	Bernard Kops	1960	0140480269
PL27	Our Town / The Skin of our Teeth / The Matchmaker	Thornton Wilder	1962	0140480277
PL28	Death of a Salesman	Arthur Miller	1961	0140480285
PL29	A View from the Bridge / All My Sons	Arthur Miller	1961	0140480293
PL30	Right You Are! / All for the Best / Henry IV	Luigi Pirandello	1962	0140480307
PL31	Gallows Glorious / Lady Precious Stream / Richard of Bordeaux	Gow / Hsiung / Daviot	1958	0140480315
PL32	New English Dramatists 1	Lessing / Kops / Wesker	1959	0140480323
PL33	Four English Comedies	Jonson / Congreve / Goldsmith / Sheridan	1959	0140480331
PL34	The Rules of the Game / The Life I Gave You / Lazarus	Luigi Pirandello	1959	014048034X
PL35	Three Irish Plays	Johnston / O’Conor / MacDonagh	1959	0140480358
PL36	Three European Plays	Anouilh / Betti / Sartre	1958	0140480366
PL37	Four Modern Verse Plays	Eliot / Fry / Williams / MacDonagh	1957	0140480374
PL38	New English Dramatists 2	Osborne / Wesker / Simpson	1960	0140480382
PL39	New English Dramatists 3	Hall / Arden / Pinter	1961	0140480390
PL40	New English Dramatists 4	Shaffer / Arden / Hastings	1962	0140480404
PL41	Fairy Tales of New York	J.P. Donleavy	1961	0140480412
PL42	New English Dramatists 5	Livings / Owen / Whiting	1962	0140480420
PL43	Selected Plays	W. Somerset Maugham	1963	0140480439
PL44	The Golden Boy / Awake and Sing / The Big Knife	Clifford Odets	1963	0140480447
PL45	New English Dramatists 6	Bolt / Whiting / Livings	1963	0140480455
PL46	The Three Germans	Buchner / Hauptmann / Brecht	1962	0140480463
PL47	New English Dramatists 7	Wesker / Rudkin / Cooper	1963	0140480471
PL48	The Wesker Trilogy?	Arnold Wesker	1964	014048048X
PL49	The Long and the Short and the Tall / The Dumb Waiter / A Resounding Tinkle	Hall / Pinter / Simpson	1964	0140480498
PL50	Epitath for George Dillon / The Kitchen / The Hamlet of Stepney Green	Osborne / Wesker / Kops	1964	0140480501
PL51	Selected One-Act Plays 1	George Bernard Shaw	1965	014048051X
PL52	Selected One-Act Plays 2	George Bernard Shaw	1965	0140480528
PL53	Heartbreak House	George Bernard Shaw	1964	0140480536
PL54	Classic Irish Drama	Sean O’Casey	1964	0140480544
PL55	Caligula / Cross Purpose	Albert Camus	1965	0140480552
PL56	The Night of the Iguana	Tennessee Williams	1964	0140480560
PL57	Three Plays	John Arden	1964	0140480579
PL58	Absurd Drama	Ionesco / Adamov / Albee	1965	0140480587
PL59	New English Dramatists 8	Wood / Lynne / Orton	1965	0140480595
PL60	Two Plays	Jean-Paul Sartre	1965	0140480609
PL61	Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Edward Albee	1965	0140480617
PL62	Three Soviet Plays	Mayakovsky / Babel / Schwartz	1966	0140480625
PL63	Parables for the Theatre	Bertolt Brecht	1966	0140480633
PL64	The Fifth Column	Ernest Hemingway	1966	0140480641
PL65	Novelists’ Theatre	Wilson / Dennis / Spark	1966	014048065X
PL66	New American Drama	Albee / Richardson / Schisgal / Miller	1966	0140480668
PL67	Five Plays	Eugene O’Neill	1966	0140480676
PL68	New English Dramatists 9	Wesker / Howarth / Reckord	1966	0140480684
PL69	Traverse Plays	Bellow / Pinget / Duras / Mishima / Taylor / Mully / Williams	1966	0140480692
PL70	New English Dramatists 10	Wesker / Pinner / Taylor	1968	0140480706
PL71	New English Dramatists 11	Cooper / Terson / Wood	1967	0140480714
PL72	Theatre of War	Schehade / Vian / Montherlant	1967	0140480722
PL73	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Any More	Tennessee Williams	1969	0140480730
PL74	Three Plays	Wesker / Kops / Shaffer	1968	0140480749
PL75	New English Dramatists 12: Radio Plays	Cooper / Bermange / Churchill / Sandford / Sharp / Taylor	1968	0140480757
PL76	New English Dramatists 13	Fugard / Orton / Pinner	1968	0140480765
PL77	New English Dramatists 14	Storey / Terson / Macbeth / Finley / Johnson / Conn	1970	0140480773
PL78	The Crucible	Arthur Miller	1968	0140480781
PL79	After the Fall	Arthur Miller	1968	014048079X
PL80	Three Plays	Hall / Lessing / Hastings	1968	0140480803
PL81	The Night of the Iguana / Orpheus Descending	Tennessee Williams	1968	0140480811
PL82	Three Plays	Tennessee Williams	1968	014048082X
PL83	Keen / Nekrassov / The Trojan Women	Jean-Paul Sartre	1969	0140480838
PL84	Three Negro Plays	Hughes / Jones / Hansberry	1969	0140480846
PL85	The Rules of the Game / Right You Are! / Henry IV	Luigi Pirandello	1969	0140480854
PL86	Three Plays	D.H. Lawrence	1969	0140480862
PL87	The Representative	Trolf Hochhuth	1969	0140480870
PL88	Five Plays	Frederico Lorca	1970	0140480889
PL89	Three East European Plays	Hay / Mrozek / Havel	1970	0140480897
PL90	The Marowitz Hamlet / The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus	Charles Marowitz	1970	0140480900
PL91	A Delicate Balance	Edward Albee	1969	0140480919
PL92	The Long Christmas Dinner and Other Plays in One Act	Thronton Wilder	1969	0140480927
PL93	When We Are Married and Other Plays	J.B. Priestly	1969	0140480935
PL94	Time and the Conways and Other Plays	J.B. Priestly	1969	0140480943
PL95	Broken Glass	Arthur Miller	1994	0140480951
PL96	The Play of Hardian VII	Peter Luke	1969	014048096X
PL97	The Living Room	Graham Greene	1970	0140480978
PL98	The Price	Arthur Miller	1970	0140480986
PL99	The Boys in the Band	Mart Crowley	1970	0140480994
PL105	The Just / The Possessed	Albert Camus	1970	0140481052
PL106	Four Austrailian Plays	Buzo / Hibbard / Romeril	1973	0140481060
PL107	Off-Broadway Plays 1	Kopit / Horovitz / Guare / Dizenzo	1971	0140481079
PL108	The Complaisant Lover	Graham Greene	1971	0140481087
PL109	The Love-Girl and the Innocent	Alexander Solzhenitsyn	1971	0140481095
PL110	Tiny Alice Box / Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung	Edward Albee	1972	0140481109
PL111	We Bombed in New Haven	Joseph Heller	1971	0140481117
PL112	Four Plays	James Saunders	1971	0140481125
PL113	The Potting Shed	Graham Greene	1971	0140481133
PL114	Find Your Way Home	John Hopkins	1971	0140481141
PL115	Son of Man	Dennis Potter	1971	014048115X
PL116	In Celebration / The Contractor	David Storey	1971	0140481168
PL117	Off-Broadway Plays 2	Shepard / McNally / Peluso / Welker	1972	0140481176
PL118	Little Murders	Jules Feiffer	1971	0140481184
PL119	Four Plays	Gunter Grass	1972	0140481192
PL120	The Plebians Rehearse the Uprising	Gunter Grass	1972	0140481206
PL121	Carving a Statue	Graham Greene	1972	0140481214
PL122	Zigger Zagger / Mooney and His Caravans	Peter Terson	1972	0140481222
PL123	Selected One-Act Plays	George Bernard Shaw	1976	0140481230
PL124	Home	David Storey	1972	0140481249
PL125	The Changing Room	David Storey	1973	0140481257
PL126	Exiles	James Joyce	1973	0140481265
PL127	Open Space Plays	Herbert / Burgess / Burns / Marowitz	1974	0140481273
PL128	Three Plays	Peter Shaffer	1976	0140481281
PL129	New American Drama	Albee / Richardson / Schisgal / Miller		014048129X
PL130	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof / The Milk Train / Night of the Iguana	Tennessee Williams	1976	0140481303
PL131	The Rose Tattoo / Camino Real / Orpheus Descending	Tennessee Williams	1976	0140481311