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DRAMATIC LITERATURE READING LIST
GREEK DRAMA
Aeschlylus:
Aristophanes:
19th CENTURY ENGLISH DRAMA
Oresteia trilogy
Prometheus Bound
Lysistrata
The Frogs
Euripides:
The Trojan Women
Sophocles:
Oedipus at Colonus
Electra
Shaw:
Wilde:
Major Barbara
Saint Joan
Arms and the Man
Pygmalion
Salome
Importance of Being
Earnest
20TH CENTURY CONTINENTAL
DRAMA
ROMAN DRAMA
Plautus:
The Menaechmi
Miles Gloriosus
Seneca:
Oedipus the King
Brecht:
Mother Courage
Caucasian Chalk Circle
Good Person of Setzuan
Chekhov:
Three Sisters
Cherry Orchard
Seagull
Uncle Vanya
ELIZABETHAN DRAMA
Marlowe:
Doctor Faustus
Jonson:
Volpone
Duerenmatt: The Visit
Shakespeare:
As You Like It
Hamlet
King Lear
Richard III
Much Ado
Taming of the Shrew
Twelfth Night
Othello
Genet:
The Maids
Deathwatch
The Balcony
Ibsen:
Ghosts
Hedda Gabler
Ionesco:
Exit the King
The Chairs
The Lesson
Rhinoceros
Jarry:
Ubu Trilogy
17th CENTURY FRENCH DRAMA
Moliere:
The Miser
Tartuffe
Misanthrope
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Racine:
Phaedra
Lorca:
Blood Wedding
House of Bernarda Alba
20TH CENTURY CONT. DRAMA
20th CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA
Pirandello:
Six Characters in Search
of an Author
Albee:
Rapport/Ansky:
The Dybbuk
The Zoo Story
Three Tall Women
Who’s Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?
Sartre:
No Exit
The Flies
Barry:
Holiday
Philadelphia Story
Strindberg:
Miss Julie
The Father
The Ghost Sonata
Foster:
Tom Paine
Guare:
House of
Blue
Leaves
Weiss:
Marat/Sade
The Investigation
Hellman:
20TH CENTURY ENGLISH DRAMA
The Little Foxes
The Children’s
Hour
Come Back Little
Sheba
Bus Stop
Coward:
Blithe Spirit
Hay Fever
Private Lives
Inge:
Orton:
Loot
What the Butler Saw
Kanin:
Born Yesterday
Kaufman/Hart:
Osborne:
Look Back in Anger
The Man Who
Came to Dinner
Pinter:
The Homecoming
The Caretaker
Betrayal
Old Times
The Birthday Party
Shaffer:
You Can’t Take It
With You
Kopit:
Amadeus
MacLeish:
The Royal Hunt of the Sun
Mamet:
Indians
Oh Dad, Poor
Dad,...
JB
American Buffalo
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Stoppard:
The Real Inspector Hound
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern
are Dead
Glengarry Glen
Ross
Oleanna
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20TH CENTURY AMERICAN
MODERN DRAMA
Miller:
A View from the Bridge
All My Sons
Allen:
O’Neill:
The Emperor Jones
Hairy Ape
Iceman Cometh
Desire Under the Elms
Long Day’s Journey Into
Night
Beckett:
Christie:
Ten Little Indians
The Mousetrap
Shepard:
True West
Buried Child
Fool for Love
Durang:
Beyond Therapy
Marriage of Bette &
Boo
Simon:
Odd Couple
Lost in Yonkers
Barefoot in the Park
Griffin:
Leonard:
Wilder:
Skin of our Teeth
The Matchmaker
Boys Next Door
The Diviners
And They Dance
Real Slow In
Jackson
Henley:
Crimes of the
Heart
Miss Firecracker
Contest
Don’t Drink the
Water
Play It Again, Sam
Waiting for Godot
Endgame
Happy Days
Williams:
Glass Menagerie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Streetcar Named Desire
Rice:
The Adding Machine
Anderson:
Winterset
Lawrence/Lee: Inherit the
Wind
Night Thoreau
Spent in Jail
Rabe:
Streamers
Levin:
Deathtrap
Lucas:
Odets:
Waiting for Lefty
Awake and Sing
Golden Boy
Prelude to a Kiss
Reckless
Medoff:
When You Comin’
Back Red Ryder?
Children of a
Lesser God
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Rand:
Night of January 16th
Uhry:
Shue:
The Nerd
The Foreigner
Jones:
Driving Miss Daisy
Last Night of
Ballyhoo
A Texas Trilogy
Sorkin:
A Few Good Men
Tally:
Terra Nova
Zindel:
Effects of Gamma Rays
on Man-In-the-Moon
Marigolds
Dean/Balderstom: Dracula
Synge:
Playboy of the
Western World
Buchner:
Woyzeck
Knott:
Wait Until Dark
Gurney:
Love Letters
Sylvia
Wolfe:
The Colored
Museum
Smith:
Twilight: Los
Angeles, 1992
Martin:
Picasso at the Lapin
Agile
Edson:
Wit
Baraka:
Jason Miler: That
Championship
Season
The Dutchman
Wilson:
Fences
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
The Piano Lesson
Margulies:
Dinner with Friends