Theatre Comprehensive Reading List

REQUIRED

CLASSICAL (Greek)
Aeschylus The Orestia (c. 458 BCE)
Sophocles Oedipus Rex (c. 420 BCE)
Euripides Medea (c. 431 BCE)
Aristophanes Lysistrata (c. 411 BCE)

CLASSICAL (Roman)
Plautus The Menaechmi (c. 195 BCE)

MEDIEVAL
Anonymous Everyman (c. 1495)

ELIZABETHAN
Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1595)
Hamlet (1600)
Macbeth (1606)
Jonson Volpone (1605)
Marlowe Doctor Faustus (1616)

NEOCLASSICAL
Moliere Tartuffe (1664) (trans. by Wilbur)
Racine Phedre (1677)

RESTORATION
Wycherley The Country Wife (1675)

THE 18TH CENTURY
Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
Sheridan The Rivals (1775)
Schiller The Robbers (1781)

THE 19TH CENTURY
Gogol The Inspector General (1836)
Buchner Woyzeck (1837)
Ibsen A Doll’s House (1879)
Hedda Gabler (1890)
Strindberg Miss Julie (1888)
Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)

THE 20TH CENTURY
Chekhov The Three Sisters (1901)
The Cherry Orchard (1904)
Feydeau A Flea in Her Ear (1907)
Shaw Pygmalion (1914)
Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)
O’Casey Juno and the Paycock (1924)
O’Neill Desire Under the Elms (1924)
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1940)
Hellman The Children’s Hour (1934)
Kaufman and Hart You Can’t Take It With You (1936)
Lorca The House of Bernarda Alba (1936)
Saroyan The Time of Your Life (1939)
Wilder Our Town (1938)
Coward Blithe Spirit (1941)
Brecht The Good Woman of Setzuan (1943)
Chase Harvey (1944)
Sartre No Exit (1944)
Williams The Glass Menagerie (1945)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Miller Death of a Salesman (1949)
Christie Mousetrap 1952
Beckett Waiting for Godot (1953)
Inge Picnic (1953)
Lawrence & Lee Inherit the Wind (1955)
Genet The Balcony (1956)
Laurents West Side Story (1957)
Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Ionesco Rhinoceros (1960)
Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
Jones (Baraka) The Dutchman (1964)
Stein Fiddler on the Roof (1964)
Pinter The Homecoming (1965)
Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966)
Kopit Indians (1968)
Van Itallie The Serpent (1968)
Elder Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (1969)
Guare The House of Blue Leaves (1970)
Shaffer Equus (1973)
Bennett A Chorus Line (1975)
Ayckbourn Bedroom Farce (1977)
Shepard Buried Child (1978)
Churchill Cloud 9 (1979)
Durang Beyond Therapy (1981)
Gurney The Dining Room (1981)
Henley Crimes of the Heart (1981)
Fugard Master Harold...and the Boys (1982)
Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross (1983)
Wilson Fences (1986)
Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles (1989)
Simon Lost in Yonkers (1991)