Here is a far from comprehensive list of plays which have been adapted to stage or screen. The links provided are varied in content and quality (from Wikipedia to IMBD to random reviews); they are intended as a mere stepping stone towards more information about the adaptation.
Aeschylus – (525 – 455 BC)
- Agamemnon
- Stephen Berkoff – Agamemnon (1971)
- Charles Mee – Agamemnon 2.0 (1994)
- Prometheus Bound
- Percy Bysshe Shelley – Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Sophocles – (497 – 406 BC)
- Antigone
- Jean Anouillh – Antigone (1943)
- Athol Fugard – The Island (1972)
- Electra
- Eugene O’Neill – Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)
- Jean-Paul Sartre – The Flies (1943)
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Euripides – (480 – 406 BC)
- The Bacchae
- Joe Orton – The Erpingham Camp (1966)
- The Performance Group – Dionysus in ’69 (1969)
- Wole Soyinka – The Bacchae of Euripedes (1972)
- Charles Mee – The Bacchae 2.1 (1993)
- Iphigenia in Aulis
- Racine – Iphigénie (1674)
- Neil Labute – Iphigenia in Orem (1999)
- Marina Carr – Ariel (2002)
- Caridad Svich – Iphigenia Crash Land Falls on the Neon Shell That Was Once Her Heart (a rave fable) (2005)
- Charles Mee – Iphigenia 2.0 (2007)
- Medea
- Jean Anouilh – Medea (1963)
- John Fisher – Medea the Musical (1995)
- Marina Carr – By the Bog of Cats (1998)
- Neil Labute – Medea Redux (1999)
- Caridad Svich – Wreckage (2005)
- Trojan Women
- Mihalis Kakogiannis – The Trojan Women (film – 1971)
- Charles Mee – Trojan Women: A Love Story (1996)
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Seneca – (4 BC – 65 AD)
- Phaedra
- Racine – Phaedrus (1677)
- Sarah Kane – Phaedra’s Love (1996)
William Shakespeare – (1564 – 1616)
- Hamlet
- Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead (1966) link
- Aki Kaurismäki – Hamlet Goes Business (film – 1987) link
- Kenneth Branagh – Hamlet (film – 1996) link
- Michael Almereyda – Hamlet (film – 2000) link
- Xiaogang Feng – Legend of the Black Scorpion (film – 2006) link
- Henry V
- Kenneth Branagh – Henry V (film – 1989) link
- Gus Van Sant – My Own Private Idaho (film – 1991) link
- King Lear
- Akira Kurosawa – Ran (film – 1985) link
- Jean-Luc Godard – King Lear (film – 1987) link
- Edward Bond – Lear (1971) link
- Uli Edel – King of Texas (TV/film – 2002) link
- Young Jean Lee – Lear (2009) link
- Macbeth
- Akira Kurosawa – Throne of Blood (film – 1967) link
- Tom Stoppard – Cahoot’s Macbeth (1979) link
- Billy Morrissette – Scotland, PA (film – 2001) link
- Vishal Bhardwaj – Maqbool (film – 2004) link
- The Merchant of Venice
- Arnold Wesker – The Merchant (1983) link
- Michael Radford – The Merchant of Venice (film – 2004) link
- Othello
- Paula Vogel – Desdemona: A Play About A Hankerchief (1993) link
- Oliver Parker – Othello (film – 1995) link
- Tim Blake Nelson – O (film 2001) link
- Romeo and Juliet
- Peter Ustinov – Romanoff and Juliet (1961) link
- Michael Sarne – The Punk (film – 1993) link
- Lloyd Kaufman – Tromeo and Juliet (1996) link
- Joe Calarco – Shakespeare’s R & J (1998) link
- Andrzej Bartkowiak – Romeo Must Die (film – 2000) link
- Titus Andronicus
- Julie Taymoor – Titus (film – 1999) link
Molière – (1622 – 1673)
- Don Juan
- G.B. Shaw – Man and Superman (1903)
- Derek Walcott – The Joker of Seville (1980)
- Jeremy Leven – Don Juan DeMarco (film – 1994)
- Patrick Marber – Don Juan in Soho (2006)
Henrik Ibsen – (1828 – 1906)
- A Doll’s House
- Lee Breuer – Mabou Mines Dollhouse (film – 2008) link
- Rebecca Gilman – Dollhouse (2010) link
- a modernized version of Ibsen’s classic, set in the age of maxed out credit cards and bureaucratic oversight committees.
- Hedda Gabler
- Alex Segal – Hedda Gabler (film – 1963) link
- starring Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave
- Elizabeth Meriwether – Heddatron (2006) link
- A pregnant Michigan housewife is abducted by robots and forced to perform Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in a South American rainforest.
- Jeff Whitty – The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler (2008) link
- “Hedda Gabler and other famed fictional figures live on in a type of purgatory, trapped in the confines of character imposed on them by their creators.”
August Strindberg – (1849 – 1912)
- Miss Julie
- Patrick Marber – After Miss Julie (1995) link
- The author of Closer sets Strindberg’s play in an English country estate just after the second world war. A wealthy young woman is seduced by her servant.
- Mike Figgis – Miss Julie (film – 1999) link
Anton Chekhov – (1860 – 1904)
- The Seagull
- Tennessee Williams – The Notebook of Trigorin (1981) link
- set in the deep South, but retains the Russian names
- Uncle Vanya
- Stuart Burge – Uncle Vanya (film – 1963) link
- with Lawrence Olivier and Michael Redgrave
- Andre Gregory – Vanya on 42nd Street (film – 1994) link
- based on translation by David Mamet, starring Wallace Shawn and Julianne Moore
- Anthony Hopkins – August (film – 1996) link
- Sets the story in North Wales, stars Anthony Hopkins.
George Bernard Shaw – (1856 – 1950)
- Pygmalion
- Lerner and Loewe – My Fair Lady (film – 1964)
- Robert Iscove – She’s All That (film – 1999)