Theatre Program

Reading List
* THTR 130

Classic Greece and Rome

Aeschylus The Oresteia, Prometheus Bound

Sophocles Antigone, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Electra

Euripides The Trojan Women, The Bacchae, Medea,

Iphigenia in Tauris

Aristophanes The Clouds, The Frogs, Lysistrata

Plautus The Menaechmi, The Braggart Warrior, The Pot of

Gold, Pseudolus*

Terence Phormio, The Brothers

Seneca Medea, Thyestes

The Middle Ages

Anonymous Abraham and Isaac, The Second Shepherds Play, Noah
(Cycle Plays)

Anonymous Everyman, Mankind (Morality Plays)

Anonymous Maitre Pierre Patelin* (Farce)

England 1550-1660
Nicholas Udall Ralph Roister Doister

Anonymous Gammer Gurtons Needle

Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy

Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus, Tamburlaine

William Shakespeare Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard II,
Henry IV, Henry V, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet,
Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Nights Dream, The
Tempest, Macbeth, Othello, Julius Caesar, Antony and
 Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, The Taming
of the Shrew, As You Like It, Much Ado About Nothing,
The Taming of the Shrew, The Winters Tale, The
Comedy of Errors,

Ben Jonson Volpone, The Alchemist

John Webster The White Devil, The Duchess of Malfi

John Ford Tis Pity Shes a Whore

Continental Europe 1500-1700

Pedro Caldern de la Barca Life is a Dream

Pierre Corneille The Cid, Horace

Niccol Machiavelli Mandragola

Molire The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, The Imaginary Invalid, The

Miser, The School for Wives, The Doctor in Spite of
Himself*

Jean Racine Phaedra, Andromache

England: Restoration and Eighteenth Century

William Wycherley The Country Wife

William Congreve The Way of the World

Aphra Behn, The Rover

George Farquhar The Beaux Stratagem

Richard Steele The Conscious Lovers

John Gay The Beggars Opera

George Lillo The London Merchant

Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

Richard Sheridan The School for Scandal, The Rivals

Continental Europe: Eighteenth Century

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Pierre de Marivaux The Game of Love and Chance

Pierre Beaumarchais The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro

Carlo Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Nathan the Wise, Miss Sara Sampson

Friedrich Schiller The Robbers, Mary Stuart

England and the Continent : Nineteenth Century Prior to Ibsen

Victor Hugo Hernani

Karl Georg Bchner Dantons Death, Woyzeck

Alfred de Musset No Trifling with Love

Nikolai Gogol The Inspector General*

Alexandre Dumas, fils Camille, Le Demi-Monde*

Victorien Sardou A Scrap of Paper

Eugene Scribe A Glass of Water

Modern Drama: Europe

Henrik Ibsen Peer Gynt, The Pillars of the Community*, A Doll
House*, An Enemy of the People*, The Wild Duck*,
Hedda Gabler, Ghosts, Rosmersholm

August Strindberg The Dance of Death, The Father, Miss Julie, The
Dream Play, The Ghost Sonata, The Stronger

Maurice Maeterlinck The Blind

Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac

Georges Feydeau A Flea in Her Ear*

Frank Wedekind Spring Awakening

Georg Kaiser From Morn to Midnight

Alfred Jarry Ubu Roi

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Anton Chekhov The Sea Gull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The
Cherry Orchard, Swan Song, A Marriage Proposal*,
The Bear*

Maxim Gorky The Lower Depths

Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, Right

You Are If You Think You Are

Jean Anouilh Beckett, or The Honour of God, Traveler without

Luggage, Thieves Carnival*, Antigone*

Bertolt Brecht The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her

Children, Galileo, The Good Person of Setzuan, The
Caucasian Chalk Circle, A Mans a Man, The Informer

Federico Garca Lorca Blood Wedding, The House of Bernarda Alba

Albert Camus Caligula

Jean-Paul Sartre No Exit, The Flies, The Respectful Prostitute*

Andre Giraudoux Tiger at the Gates, The Madwoman of Chaillot

Eugene Ionesco The Bald Soprano, The Chairs, Rhinoceros*, Exit the
King, The Chairs

Jean Genet The Maids, The Balcony, The Blacks

Friedrich Drrenmatt The Visit

Peter Weiss Marat/Sade

Vaclav Havel The Memorandum

Slawomir Mrozek Tango

Peter Handke Kaspar, Offending the Audience

Fernando Arrabal The Automobile Graveyard

Dario Fo Accidental Death of an Anarchist

Modern Drama: England and Ireland

Walter Brandon Thomas Charleys Aunt*

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windermeres

Fan

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Arthur Pinero The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton*

G. B. Shaw Man and Superman, Pygmalion, Major Barbara, Mrs.

Warrens Profession, Saint Joan, Misalliance,
Heartbreak House

Sean OCasey The Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock

John Synge The Playboy of the Western World

Noel Coward Private Lives, Hay Fever, Blithe Spirit

Patrick Hamilton Gaslight

Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot, Endgame, Happy Days, Krapps

Last Tape

Agatha Christie The Mousetrap

Alec Coppel The Gazebo*

John Osborne Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer

John Arden Sgt. Musgraves Dance

Harold Pinter The Homecoming, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker,

Betrayal, Old Times, The Dumb Waiter, No Mans Land

Joe Orton What the Butler Saw, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, Loot

Peter Shaffer Equus, Amadeus

Robert Bolt A Man for All Seasons

Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Real

Inspector Hound, The Real Thing, Travesties, Arcadia

Edward Bond Lear, Saved

Martin McDonagh The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Caryl Churchill Top Girls, Vinegar Tom

Sarah Kane Blasted

Timberlake Wertenbaker Our Countrys Good

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American Drama: 1900 to the Present
Eugene ONeill Long Days Journey Into Night, The Emperor Jones,
Mourning Becomes Electra, The Iceman Cometh

Philip Barry The Philadelphia Story

Clifford Odets Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing, Golden Boy*

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

George S. Kaufman You Cant Take It With You

Joseph Kesselring Arsenic and Old Lace

William Saroyan The Time of Your Life

Thornton Wilder Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker

Lilian Hellman The Little Foxes

Garson Kanin Born Yesterday*

Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire,

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth

Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman, All My Sons*, The Crucible, A

View from the Bridge*

Thomas Heggen Mister Roberts

Archibald MacLeish J.B.

William Inge Picnic

Mary Chase Harvey

William Gibson The Miracle Worker

Goodrich & Hackett's The Diary of Anne Frank

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

August Wilson Fences, The Piano Lesson

Neil Simon The Odd Couple, Lost in Yonkers, The Prisoner of

Second Avenue*

Edward Albee Zoo Story, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A Delicate

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 Balance

William Hanley Slow Dance on the Killing Floor

Imamu Amiri Baraka The Dutchman

David Rabe Sticks and Bones, Streamers, The Basic Training of

Pavlo Hummel, In the Boom Boom Room

Ted Tally Terra Nova

Lanford Wilson Talleys Folly

Israel Horovitz The Indian Wants the Bronx

Sam Shepard Cowboys #2, Buried Child, A Lie of the Mind,

Curse of the Starving Class, True West, Fool for Love

Charles Fuller A Soldiers Play

Bernard Pomerance The Elephant Man

Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles

Arthur Kopit Indians, Wings, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You
in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad

Tony Kushner Angels in America, Homebody/Kabul

David Mamet American Buffalo, Sexual Perversity in Chicago,

Oleana, Race, Glengarry Glen Ross

David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly

August Wilson Joe Turners Come and Gone, Fences, The Piano
Lesson

Herbert Gardner A Thousand Clowns, Im Not Rappaport, Conversations

with My Father

Suzan-Lori Parks Venus

Jos Rivera Marisol

Charles Pike The Informer

Modern Drama: South Africa

Athol Fugard Blood Knot, Master Harold and the Boys

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Modern Drama: Egypt
Tawfiq el-Hakim The Sultans Dilemma

Mahmoud Diyab The Storm

MUSICALS

Sondheim et al West Side Story

Jerry Bock et al Fiddler on the Roof
Stephen Schwartz et al Godspell
Frank Loesser et al Guys and Dolls
Stephen Sondheim et al Sweeny Todd
Alan Menken et al Little Shop of Horrors
Cole Porter Anything Goes
Harry Warren et al 42nd Street
Mark Hollman et al Urinetown
Harvey Schmidt The Fantasticks
George Gershwin et al Porgy & Bess
Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma