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, Phédre
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 Büchner, 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 Audley’s Secret Douglas Jerrold, Black-Ey’d 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 Müller, Hamletmachine Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening
Twentieth Century British • • • • • • • • • •
Edward Bond, Saved Sean O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine, Shelagh Delaney, D elaney, 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
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Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Mrs Warren’s Profession Peter Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun Timberlake Wertenbaker, The Love of the Nightingale
Twentieth Century American • • • • • • • • •
Edward Albee, Who’s 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 O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire Thornton Wilder, Our Town
World Theatre • • • •
Aime Césaire, A Tempest Fugard, Kani and Ntshona, The Island Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman Noh Plays of Japan: An Anthology, Arthur Waley, ed., Dover 1998
