• Slag (1970) Slag, is a biting satire in which the only characters are the three teachers of a tiny isolated girl's school. To protest the dominance and abusive treatment by men epitomized by the slur as "slags," they vow to abstain from sexual intercourse. Feminism and dominance are ridiculed alike, as the conflicts among the teachers' different visions of radical feminism and their teaching become the grist for duplicitous dominant and abusive acts among them, while the number of pupils in the resulting dysfunctional environment dwindles to zero. Slag was a breakthrough play for David Hare, winning him the Evening Standard Award for most promising new playwright.
• The Great Exhibition (1972)
• Brassneck (1973) (with Howard Brenton)
• Knuckle (1974)
• Fanshen (1975)
• Teeth 'n' Smiles (1975)
• Plenty (1978)
• A Map of the World (1982)
• Pravda (1985) (with Howard Brenton)
• The Bay at Nice, and Wrecked Eggs (1986)
• The Secret Rapture (1988)
• Racing Demon (1990)
• Murmuring Judges (1991)
• The Absence of War (1993)
• Skylight (1995)
• Amy's View (1997)
• The Blue Room (1998) (adapted from Arthur Schnitzler)
• The Judas Kiss (1998)
• Via Dolorosa (1998)
• My Zinc Bed (2000)
• The Breath of Life (2002)
• The Permanent Way (2004)
• Stuff Happens (2004)
• The Vertical Hour (2006)
• Gethsemane (2008)
• The Power of Yes (2009)

• Licking Hitler (1978)
• Dreams of Leaving (1980)
• Plenty (1985) - based on his play
• Strapless (1989)
• Damage (1992)
• The Hours (2002) - based on the novel by Michael Cunningham
• The Corrections (2007) - based on the novel by Jonathan Franzen
• My Zinc Bed (2008) - based on his play
• Murder in Samarkand (2008) - based on the memoir by Craig Murray, former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan
• The Reader (2008) - based on the novel by Bernhard Schlink

• Licking Hitler for BBC1's Play for Today (1978) (TV film)
• Dreams of Leaving for BBC1's Play for Today (1980)
• Wetherby (1985)
• Paris by Night (1988)
• Strapless (1989)
• Paris, May 1919 (1993) (TV episode)
• The Designated Mourner, written by Wallace Shawn (1989)
• Heading Home (1991) (TV film)
• The Year of Magical Thinking (2007) (Broadway play by Joan Didion starring Vanessa Redgrave)

Books

• Acting Up (A diary on his experiences of acting in his own play, the one-man-show on the topic of Israel/Palestine, Via Dolorosa.)
• Obedience, Struggle and Revolt (Faber and Faber, 2005)
• About Hare by Richard Boon (Faber and Faber, 2006)

Articles

• 1979 BAFTA Award (British Academy of Film and Television) for Best Single Play for Licking Hitler
• 1983 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Foreign Play for Plenty
• 1985 Berlin Film Festival Golden Bear for Wetherby
• 1990 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play for Racing Demon
• 1990 London Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Play for
• 1995 Evening Standard Award for Best Play for Pravda, Racing Demon
• 1999 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding One-Person Show for Via Doloroso