Plays
- Joseph Addison
- Cato
- Albert Camus
- Caligula
- Henrik Ibsen
- Emperor and Galilean
- Ben Jonson
- Sejanus, His Fall
- Heinrich von Kleist
- Die Hermannsschlacht
- William Shakespeare
- Titus Andronicus
- Julius Caesar
- Antony and Cleopatra
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Robert Sherwood
- The Road to Rome (1927), on which a little-known 1955 film Jupiter's Darling was based.
- Stephen Sondheim
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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