This is a partial list of the plays every college student should Know. Most people have not read every play on the list!
THE AMERICANS:
Kushner: Angles in America: A Gay Fantasia
O'NEILL: Ah, Wilderness!; Long Day's Journey Into Night; The Iceman Cometh; The Emporer Jones; Desire Under the Elms
RICE: Street Scene; The Adding Machine
KAUFMAN AND HART: You Can't Take It With You; The Man Who Came to Dinner
ODETS: Waiting for Lefty; Awake and Sing; Golden Boy
SHERWOOD: The Petrified Forest
HELLMAN: The Children's Hour; The Little Foxes
STEINBECK: Of Mice and Men
WILDER: Our Town; The Skin of Our Teeth; The Matchmaker
WILLIAMS: The Glass Menagerie; Summer and Smoke; A Streetcar Named Desire; Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
MILLER: Death of a Salesman; The Crucible: A View from the Bridge; The Price
SIMON: Barefoot in the Park; Lost in Yonkers; The Odd Couple; The Sunshine Boys
ALBEE: The Zoo Story; The Death of Bessie Smith; The American Dream; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; A Delicate Balance
BARAKA (JONES): Dutchman
HANSBURY: A Raisin in the Sun; The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
LANFORD WILSON: Hot I Baltimore; Balm in Gilead; The Rimers of Eldritch; The Fifth of July
SHEPHERD: True West; Curse of the Strarving Class; Buried Child
RABE: Streamers; Sticks and Bones; The Basic Training of Pavel Hummel
MAMET: Sexual Perversity in Chicago; American Buffalo; Glengarry Glenn Ross; Speed-the-Plow
HENLEY: Crimes of the Heart; The Miss Firecracker Contest
AUGUST WILSON: Fences; Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; The Piano Lesson; Two Train's Running
KRAMER: The Normal Heart
WASSERSTEIN: The Heidi Chronicles; The Sisters Rosenweig
THE BRITISH Styles
ANONYMOUS: Everyman; The Second Shepherd's Play
BEN JOHNSON: Volpone; The Alchemist
MARLOWE: Edward II; Dr. Faustus
SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet; Julius Caesar; Othello; Macbeth; King Lear; Romeo and Juliet; Twelfth Night; As You Like It; A Midsummer Night's Dream; The Tempest; Much Ado About Nothing; Richard II; Henry IV Parts 1 and 2; Henry V; Richard III
BEHN: The Rover
WYCHERLEY: The Country Wife
SHERIDAN: The Rivals; The School for Scandal
GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Conquer
WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest; Lady Windermere's Fan
SHAW: Pygmalion; Major Barbara; Man and Superman; Arms and the Man; Saint Joan; Caesar and Cleopatra; Mrs. Warren's Profession; Heartbreak Hotel
SYNGE: Playboy of the Western World
COWARD: Hay Fever; Private Lives; Blithe Spirit
BECKETT: Waiting for Godot; Endgame; Happy Days; Krapp's Last Tape
OSBORNE: Look Back in Anger; The Entertainer
PINTER: The Caretaker; The Homecoming; The Dumbwaiter; The Birthday Party; The Lover; The Collection
STOPPARD: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Travesties; The Real Thing; Jumpers
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GOGOL: The Inspector General
TURGENOV: A Month in the Country
CHEKHOV: The Sea Gull; Uncle Vanya; The Three Sisters; The Cherry Orchard; The Marriage Proposal; The Boor
IBSEN: Hedda Gabler; A Doll's House; Ghosts; The Master Builder; An Enemy of the People (adapted by Arthur Miller)
STRINDBERG: Miss Julie; The Father; A Dream Play; The Ghost Sonata
THE GREEKS AND ROMANS:
AESCHYLUS: The Oresteia Trilogy; Prometheus Bound
SOPHOCLES: Oedipus Rex; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone; Electra
EURIPIDES: Medea; The Trojan Women; The Bacchae; Hyppolytus
ARISTOPHANES: The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata
PLAUTUS: The Twin Manaechmi (very similar to Shakespeare's "A Comedy of Errors"); Amphitryon
SENECA: Medea
GOETHE: Faust I and II
GERMAN
WEDEKIND: Spring's Awakening; The Lulu Plays
STERNHEIM: The Snob
BRECHT: The Threepenny Opera; Mother Courage; Galileo; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; The Good Person of Setzuan; Man is Man
WEISS: Marat/Sade
Jarry: Ubu Rex (roi), and the whole trilogy.
THE FRENCH:
MOLIERE: Tartuffe; The Miser; The School for Wives; The Misanthrope; The Doctor in Spite of Himself
BEAUMARCHAIS: The Barber of Seville; The Marriage of Figaro
DUMAS, FILS: Camille
ZOLA: Therese Raquin
GIRADOUX: The Madwoman of Chaillot; Amphitryon 38; The Enchanted; Tiger at the Gates; Electra
SARTRE: The Flies; No Exit (existentialism, anyone?)
IONESCO: The Bald Soprano; The Chairs; The Lesson; Rhinoceros
GENET: The Maids; The Blacks; The Balcony
PLUS: The Complete works of Shakes.
Updated On: 2/26/10 at 03:13 PM
