In Our Town (1938), the setting is the theater itself and the narrator, a stage manager, is both aware of and allowed to interact with the audience. This technique is commonly known as “breaking the fourth wall” (meaning the invisible barrier between the actors and the audience). 

Wilder’s 1942 play The Skin of Our Teeth also won the Pulitzer Prize. None of these other plays were written by him. The Crucible (1953) is by Arthur Miller. Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) is by David Mamet. The Lion in Winter (1966) is by James Goldman. Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) is by Eugene O'Neil.

The only one of these playwrights who did not write tragedies is Aristophanes, the comedian. His most famous works include Lysistrata, The Frogs, and The Clouds.

Tiresias, the paradoxically blind but all-seeing prophet, does not appear in Lysistrata. He is featured in the other works, which are plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus, and Euripides.

Schiller, who wrote Wilhelm Tell, The Maid of Orleans, and the Wallenstein trilogy as well as the words to Beethoven’s famous “Ode to Joy,” was friends and rivals with the German writer Goethe. Together, the two helped lead the artistic movement known as Weimar Classicism.

Oedipus Rex concerns the character Oedipus, who kills King Laius of Thebes and marries Queen Jocasta, thus unknowingly fulfilling a prophecy that he would slay his father and marry his mother. This play is set in Thebes, an important ancient city in Greece.

The play is Aristophanes’s comedy Lysistrata, which concerns a group of Athenian women who withhold sex from their lovers in order to bring an end to the Peloponnesian War fought between Athens and Sparta, another ancient Greek city-state. Athens was renowned in the Greek world for being a center of culture and learning, and today it contains many important cultural ruins and archaeological sites. It was the home of many luminaries: the philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; the playwrights Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles, and Aristophanes; the orator Pericles; and the historians Herodotus and Thucydides, to name just a handful.

Lysistrata is about a group of women who withhold sex in order to bring about political change. Medea is about a strong woman who kills her children as well as a king and princess to protest her unjust treatment at the hands of Jason, her husband. The Oresteia features several strong women who also kill in their quest for vengeance: Clytemnestra murders her husband (Agamemnon), and Electra murders her mother (Clytemnestra). While The Odyssey mostly concerns the travels and adventures of the male hero Odysseus, a subplot concerns Odysseus’s wife Penelope, who uses her wits to stave off prospective suitors until her husband returns home. In Oedipus Rex, we have Jocasta, a weak female character whose ignorance and passivity help lead to the downfall of the royal family.

The play in question is Euripides’ tragedy Medea, which concerns the eponymous wife of Jason and Jason's marriage to a princess of Corinth. Medea, who is considered a barbarian, is told by Jason that she is worthy to be his mistress but not his wife. In response, Medea slays the Corinthian princess, the king, and her own children in order to agonize Jason. Corinth, located about halfway between warring Athens and Sparta, was one of the largest cities of ancient Greece, and its inhabitants were the original audience of the Christian Bible’s books Corinthians 1 and 2.

This is Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879), one of his most famous plays. The work is a critique of 19^th-century social conventions (particularly marriage and family life).