Theatre Comprehensive Reading List

RECOMMENDED

CLASSICAL
Sophocles Antigone (c. 442 BCE)
Euripedes The Trojan Women (c. 415 BCE)
Aristophanes The Birds (c. 414 BCE)

CLASSICAL
Seneca Medea (c. 60 CE)

ELIZABETHAN
Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet (1595)
Twelfth Night (1601)
Othello (1604)
King Lear (1605)
The Tempest (1611)

NEOCLASSICAL
Moliere The Misanthrope (1666)

RESTORATION
Congreve The Way of the World (1700)

THE 19TH CENTURY
Ibsen Ghosts (1881)
Wedekind Spring Awakening (1891)
Shaw Arms and the Man (1894)
Candida (1897)
Chekhov The Seagull (1896)
Uncle Vanya (1899)

THE 20TH CENTURY
Kaufman & Hart The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939)
Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children (1941)
Miller All My Sons (1947)
The Crucible (1953)
Ionesco The Bald Soprano (1950)
Anouilh The Lark (1953)
Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)
Pinter The Birthday Party (1958)
Albee The Sandbox (1959)
Kopit Oh Dad, Poor Dad... (1960)
Orton Loot (1966)
Van Itallie America Hurrah (1966)
Terry Viet Rock (1966)
Shepard Tooth of Crime (1972)
Fool For Love (1979)
True West (1980)
Mamet American Buffalo (1977)
Simon The Sunshine Boys (1972)
Rabe Streamers (1976)
Shaffer Amadeus (1979)
Friel Dancing at Lughnasa (1990)