GUIDE TO THEATRE STYLES PLAYWRIGHTS AND PLAY TITLES
ROMANTICISM
Edmond Rostand – Cyrano de Bergerac
Victor Hugo – Hernani
Goethe – Faust
Alexander Dumas – The Count of Monte Cristo
NATURALISM
Emile Zola
August Strindberg – Miss Julie
Eugene O’Neill – The Iceman Cometh
John Osborne – Look Back in Anger
Sam Shepard – Curse of the Starving Class
REALISM
Anton Chekhov – Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters
Henrik Ibsen – Enemy of the People, A Doll’s House, Ghosts
Arthur Miller – All My Sons
Horton Foote – Roads to Home, Valentine
Beth Henley – The Impossible Marriage
N. Richard Nash – The Rainmaker
Agatha Christie – Ten Little Indians
Lanford Wilson – Talley’s Folly
SYMBOLISM
Maurice Maeterlink – Pelias and Melisande, The Blind
Tennessee Williams – The Glass Menagerie
August Strindberg – A Dream Play
Anton Chekhov – The Seagull, Cherry Orchard
Sam Shepard – Buried Child
EXISTENTIALISM
Jean Paul Sarte – No Exit
Tom Stoppard – Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
David Mamet – The Cryptogram
George Bernard Shaw – Man and Superman
Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter
ABURDISM
Samuel Beckett – Endgame, Waiting for Godot
Eugene Ionesco – The Bald Soprano, The Lesson
Edward Albee – Seascape, The Sandbox
David Ives – Philip Glass Wants to Buy a Loaf of Bread
Christopher Durang – Baby with the Bathwater
EPIC/THEATRICAL
Bertolt Brecht – Good Woman of Setzuan, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Mother Courage
Thornton Wilder – The Skin of Our Teeth
Alan Ayckbourn – Taking Steps, Communicating Doors, Norman Conquests
A.R. Gurney – The Dining Room