8/3/2019 50 Plays You Must Have Read as a Drama Student

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Kent Uni's "50 plays you must have read as a drama student"

Ancient

Aeschylus, The Oresteia Euripides, The Bacchae, Medea Plautus, The Rope Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus Rex

Medieval

Anon, The Castle of Perseverance Anon, Everyman Anon, Mankind

Early Modern

Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European Calderon, Life Is a Dream Moliere, Tartuffe Jean Racine, Phdre

Restoration

Aphra Behn, The Rover George Etherege The Man of Mode

Eighteenth Century

George Lillo George Barnwell, or the London Merchant

European Classics and Romanticism

Georg Bchner, Woyzeck Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust Friedrich Schiller, Maria Stuart

Victorian Plays and Melodrama

Collection: The Lights o London and other Victorian Plays (Oxfords Worlds Classics)

Colin H Hazlewood, Lady Audleys Secret Douglas Jerrold, Black-Eyd Susan

Nineteenth Century and Naturalism

Nikolai Gogol, The Government Inspector Gerhart Hauptmann, The Weavers Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt Thomas William Robertson, Caste August Strindberg, Miss Julie, A Dream Play

Modern European

Antonin Artaud, Spurt of Blood Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage, Caucasian Chalk Circle

Jean Genet, The Balcony Alfred Jarry, The Ubu Plays Georg Kaiser, From Morn to Midnight Heiner Mller, Hamletmachine Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening

Twentieth Century British

Edward Bond, Saved Sean OCasey, The Plough and the Stars Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine, Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey Harley Granville Barker, The Voysey Inheritance Sarah Kane, Blasted John McGrath The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil John Osborne, Look Back in Anger Terrence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking

8/3/2019 50 Plays You Must Have Read as a Drama Student

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Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Mrs Warrens Profession Peter Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun Timberlake Wertenbaker, The Love of the Nightingale

Twentieth Century American

Edward Albee, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf Marie Irene Fornes, The Conduct of Life Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun Tony Kushner, Angels in America Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman Eugene ONeill, Long Days Journey into Night Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Thornton Wilder, Our Town

World Theatre

Aime Csaire, A Tempest Fugard, Kani and Ntshona, The Island Wole Soyinka, Death and the Kings Horseman Noh Plays of Japan: An Anthology, Arthur Waley, ed., Dover 1998