DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE- Play Reading List
Instructions: We recommend that all students be familiar with the following plays for general discussion in theatre classes. While the list is not intended to be exhaustive, students are encouraged to use their time reading and becoming familiar with these playwrights and specific play titles.
| Sophocles |
Antigone
Oedipus Rex
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| Euripedes |
Medea |
| Plautus |
The Menaechmi |
| Terence |
The Self-Tormentor |
| Anonymous |
Everyman
The Woman Taken in Adultery |
| Moliere |
The Misanthrope
Tartuffe |
| Racine |
Phaedra |
| Shakespeare |
Hamlet
King Lear |
| Lope de Vega |
Fuente Ovejuna |
| Calderon de le Barca |
Life is a Dream |
| Richard Brinsley Sheridan |
The School for Scandal |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
She Stoops to Conquer |
| Henrik Ibsen |
A Doll’s House
Hedda Gabler |
| Anton Chekhov |
The Cherry Orchard
Uncle Vanya |
| G.B. Shaw |
Pygmalion
Major Barbara |
| Thornton Wilder |
The Skin of Our Teeth
Our Town |
| Eugene O'Neill |
Long Day's Journey Into Night
The Hairy Ape
Ah, Wilderness! |
| Lillian Hellman |
The Little Foxes |
| Tennessee Williams |
A Streetcar Named Desire
The Glass Menagerie |
| Arthur Miller |
Death of a Salesman
The Crucible |
| Neil Simon |
Barefoot in the Park
The Odd Couple |
| Loraine Hansbury |
Raisin in the Sun |
| Marsha Norman |
'night Mother |
| August Wilson |
The Piano Lesson
Fences |
| Beth Henley |
Crimes of the Heart |
| William Nicholson |
Shadowlands |
| Robert Bolt |
A Man For All Seasons |
| Harold Pinter |
The Caretaker |
| Edward Albee |
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? |
| Bertholt Brecht |
The Good Woman of Setzuan The Caucasian Chalk Circle |
