READING LIST OF PLAYS FOR ISU
Aeschylus -The Persians
Tasso -Aminta
Aeschylus -Oresteia
Udall -Ralph Roister Doister
Sophocles -Antigone
Sackville & Norton -Gorboduc
Sophocles -Oedipus the King
Kyd -The Spanish Tragedy
Euripides -Medea
Marlowe -Dr Faustus
Euripides -Hippolytus
Dekker -The Shoemaker's Holiday
Euripides -The Bacchae
Shakespeare -Richard II
Aristophanes -The Frogs
Shakespeare -Twelfth Night
Menander -Dyskolos
Shakespeare -Hamlet
Plautus -Miles Gloriosus
Shakespeare -King Lear
Terence -The Brothers
Jonson -Volpone
Seneca -Thyestes
Webster -The Duchess of Malfi
Early Medieval -Hrotsvitha, Dulcitius
Ford -'Tis a Pity She's a Whore
Plays: -Visit to the Sepulchre
(Winchester)
Lope de Vega -Fuente Ovejuna
Tirso de Molina -The Rogue of Seville
Wakefield Cycle -'Second Shepherd's
Play'
Calderon -Life is a Dream
York Cycle -'Fall of Man' 'Crucifixion'
Corneille -The Cid
Anon. -Pierre Pathelin
Molière -Dom Juan
Anon. -Everyman
Molière -The Misanthrope
Scala -The Tragic Events
Racine -Phédre
Scala -The Jealousy of Isabella
Behn -The Rover
Machiavelli -Mandragola
Wycherley -The Country Wife
2
Dryden -All for Love
Gogol -The Government Inspector
Otway -Venice Preserved
Mowatt -Fashion
Congreve -The Way of the World
Dumas fils -The Lady of the Camellias
Farquhar -The Recruiting Officer
Boucicault -The Corsican Brothers
Steele -The Conscious Lovers
Robertson -Caste
Lillo -The London Merchant
Erckmann-Chatrian/Lewis -The Bells
Marivaux -The Game of Love and
Chance
Ibsen -Peer Gynt
Ibsen -Ghosts
Goldoni -The Servant of Two Masters
Ibsen -The Master Builder
Lessing -Emilia Galotti
Strindberg -Miss Julie
Gozzi -Turandot
Strindberg -The Ghost Sonata
Addison -Cato
Strindberg -A Dream Play
Alfieri -Saul
Wedekind -Lulu (Earth Spirit &
Gay -The Beggar's Opera
Pandora's Box)
Goldsmith -She Stoops to Conquer
Hauptmann -The Weavers
Sheridan -The School for Scandal
Maeterlinck -The Intruder
Beaumarchais -The Marriage of Figaro
Pinero -The Second Mrs Tanqueray
Kotzebue/Thompson -The Stranger
Wilde -The Importance of Being Earnest
Schiller -The Robbers
Jarry -Ubu the King
Schiller -Marie Stuart
Shaw -Heartbreak House
Goethe -Faust I
Gorky -The Lower Depths
Kleist -The Prince of Homburg
Chekhov -The Cherry Orchard
Buchner -Woyzeck
Hugo -Hernani
Synge -The Playboy of the Western
World
3
Kaiser -From Morn to Midnight
Gélinas -Tit-Coq
O'Casey -Juno and the Paycock
Reaney -Donnellys: Sticks and Stones
Yeats -Purgatory
Ryga -The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Beckett -Waiting for Godot
Tremblay -Les Belles-Soeurs
Osborne -Look Back in Anger
Walker -The Art of War
Orton -What the Butler Saw
Pollock -Blood Relations
Pinter -Old Times
Thompson -I Am Yours
Bond -Lear
Highway -Dry Lips Oughta Move to
Stoppard -Travesties
Kapuskasing
Eliot -Murder in the Cathedral
MacDonald -Goodnight Desdemona
Littlewood -Oh, What a Lovely War
Pirandello -Henry IV
Churchill -Cloud Nine
Lorca -Blood Wedding
Wertenbaker -Our Country's Good
Cocteau -The Infernal Machine
O'Neill -Emperor Jones
Brecht -The Measures Taken
O'Neill -Long Day's Journey into Night
Brecht -Mother Courage
Odets -Waiting for Lefty
Sartre -No Exit
Williams -A Streetcar Named Desire
Anouilh -Antigone
Miller -Death of a Salesman
Genet -The Balcony
Shange -For Coloured Girls. . . .
Ionesco -Exit the King
Baraka -Dutchman
Handke -Kaspar
Fornés -Fefu and her Friends
Soyinka -Death and the King's
Horseman
Mamet -Glengarry Glen Ross
Fugard -The Bloodknot
Shepard -A Lie of the Mind