Ancient
Greece
Aeschylus
The Oresteia (Agamemnon,
Libation Bearers, The Eumenides)
Sophocles
Oedipus the King *
Oedipus at Colonus
Antigone
Electra
Euripides
Medea*
Hippolytus
The Trojan Women
The Bacchae
Aristophanes
The Birds*
Lysistrata
Women at the Thesmophoria*
Menander
The Grouch
Ancient
Rome
Seneca
Medea*
Thyestes
Plautus
The Menaechmi*
Amphitryon
Terence
The Self-Tormenter
Classical India
King Sudraka
The Little Clay Cart
Kalidasa
Shakuntala
Classical
China
Chi Chün-hsiang
The Orphan of Chao*
Classical Japan
Kan’ami Kiyotsugu
Matsukaze*
Chikamatsu Monzaemon
The Love Suicides at Amijima
Medieval
Europe
Hrosvitha
Dulcitius
Ethelwold
Quem Quaeritis*
Anonymous
Second Shepherd’s Play*
Everyman*
Early
Modern England
Christopher Marlowe
Doctor Faustus*
Thomas Kyd
The Spanish Tragedy
Ben Jonson
Volpone, or The Fox
William Shakespeare
Richard III *
Henry IV, parts I & II
Romeo and Juliet
Julius Caesar
Hamlet*
Othello
King Lear
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
John Webster
The Duchess of Malfi
John Ford
‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
George Villiers
The Rehearsal
William Wycherly
The Country Wife
Aphra Behn
The Rover*
William Congreve
The Way of the World
Susanna Centlivre
The Busie Body
George Lillo
The London Merchant*
Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The Rivals
The School for Scandal*
Early
Modern Europe
Niccolo Machiavelli
Mandragola (a.k.a. The Mandrake)*
Carlo Goldoni
The Servant of Two Masters
Lope de Vega
Fuente Ovejuna
Pedro Calerón de la Barca
Life is a Dream*
Pierre Corneille
The Cid*
Jean Racine
Phaedre
Molière
Tartuffe*
The Misanthrope
The Miser
Beaumarchais
The Marriage of Figaro
19th-
and 20th-Century Germany, Austria, and
Switzerland
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faust, Parts I & II
Georg Büchner
Danton’s Death
Woyzeck*
Arthur Schnitzler
La Ronde
Frank Wedekind
Spring Awakening
Ernst Toller
Hurrah, We Live!
Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill
The Three Penny Opera
Bertolt Brecht
In the Jungle of Cities
Mother Courage and Her Children*
The Good Woman (or Person) of Setzuan
Galileo*
Friedrich Duerrenmatt
The Visit
Max Frisch
Biedermann and the Firebugs
Peter Weiss
Marat/Sade
Heiner Müller
Hamletmachine
Thomas Bernhard
Eve of Retirement
19th-
and 20th-Century Scandinavia
Henrik Ibsen
Peer Gynt
Hedda Gabler*
A Doll’s House
Ghosts
August Strindberg
Miss Julie*
A Dream Play
19th-
and 20th-Century France
Victor Hugo
Hernani
Edmond Rostand
Cyrano de Bergerac
George Feydeau
A Flea in Her Ear
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Intruder*
Madame Rachilde
The Crystal Spider*
Alfred Jarry
Ubu Roi
Jean Cocteau
The Eiffel Tower Wedding Party*
Antonin Artaud
Spurt of Blood*
Jean Giraudoux
The Madwoman of Chaillot
Jean-Paul Sartre
No Exit
Eugène Ionesco
The Chairs
Rhinoceros
Jean Genet
The Balcony
The Screens
Bernard-Marie Koltès
Roberto Zucco
Yasmina Reza
‘Art’
20th-Century
Italy and Spain
Luigi Pirandello
Six Characters in Search of an Author*
Federico Garcìa Lorca
Blood Wedding
The House of Bernarda Alba
Fernando Arrabal
Guernica
Dario Fo
Accidental Death of an Anarchist
19th-
and 20th-Century Russia and Eastern Europe
Nikolai Gogol
The Government Inspector
Ivan Turgenev
The Month in the Country
Leo Tolstoy
The Power of Darkness
Anton Chekhov
The Sea Gull*
Uncle Vanya
The Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard*
Maxim Gorky
The Lower Depths
Karel Capek
R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)
Vladimir Myakovsky
The Bedbug
Slawomir Mrozek
Tango
Václav Havel
Tempation*
19th-
and 20th-Century Britain (Including Ireland)
Gilbert and Sullivan
H.M.S. Pinafore
The Pirates of Penzance
George Bernard Shaw
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Pygmalion
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest*
Harley Granville Barker
The Voysey Inheritance
John Millington Synge
The Playboy of the Western World
Noel Coward
Blithe Spirit
Private Lives
Sean O’Casey
Juno and the Paycock
The Plough and the Stars
J.B. Priestly
An Inspector Calls
Terrance Rattigan
The Browning Version
Brendan Behan
The Quare Fellow
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot*
Endgame*
Happy Days
Jack Osborne
Look Back in Anger
Shelagh Delaney
A Taste of Honey*
Robert Bolt
A Man for All Seasons
Edward Bond
Saved
Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party
The Homecoming*
Betrayal
Joel Orton
Loot
Peter Nichols
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Peter Shaffer
Equus
Amadeus
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Arcadia
David Hare & Howard Brenton
Pravda
David Hare
Stuff Happens
Caryl Churchill
Cloud 9*
Top Girls
Michael Frayn
Noises Off
Copenhagen
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Our Country’s Good
Brian Friel
Translations
Martin McDonagh
The Beauty Queen of Leenane
The Pillowman
Sarah Kane
Blasted
United
States
Royall Tyler
The Contrast*
Anna Cora Mowatt
Fashion*
George Aiken
Uncle Tom’s Cabin*
Dion Boucicault
The Octoroon*
Elmer Rice
The Adding Machine
Sophie Treadwell
Machinal*
Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
The Front Page
Clifford Odets
Waiting for Lefty
Kaufman & Hart
You Can’t Take It With You
The Man Who Came to Dinner*
Lillian Hellman
The Little Foxes
Thornton Wilder
Our Town
The Skin of Our Teeth*
Eugene O’Neill
The Iceman Cometh
Long Day’s Journey into Night*
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie
A Streetcar Named Desiree*
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Arthur Miller
All My Sons
Death of a Salesman*
The Crucible
William Inge
Bus Stop
Lorraine Hansberry
A Raisin in the Sun*
Edward Albee
The Zoo Story*
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?*
A Delicate Balance
The Goat or Who is Sylvia?
Lanford Wilson
Talley’s Folly
Adrienne Kennedy
Funnyhouse of a Negro
Sam Shepard
Buried Child*
True West
Neil Simon
The Odd Couple
David Mamet
Glengarry Glen Ross
Oleanna
David Rabe
Hurlyburly
Ira Levin
Deathtrap*
Luis Valdez
Zoot Suit*
Marìa Irene Fornés
Fefu and Her Friends*
The Conduct of Life
August Wilson
Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
Fences*
The Piano Lesson
George C. Wolfe
The Colored Museum*
Charles Ludlam
The Mystery of Irma Vep*
Wallace Shawn
Aunt Dan and Lemon
The Designated Mourner
John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation
David Henry Hwang
M. Butterfly*
Tony Kushner
Angels in America, Parts I* & II*
José Rivera
Marisol*
Anna Deavere Smith
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
Paula Vogel
How I Learned to Drive*
Moisès Kaufman
The Laramie Project*
Suzan-Lori Parks
Topdog/Underdog*
John Patrick Shanley
Doubt
Tracy Letts
August: Osage County*
Bruce Norris
Clyboubourne Park*
Contemporary
“World” Drama
Aimé Césaire
A Tempest
Griselda Gambaro
Information for Foreigners*
Derek Walcott
Pantomime
Wole Soyinka
Death and the King’s Horseman
Jean-Claude Carrière and Peter Brook
The Mahabharata
Athol Fugard
“Master Harold”… and the boys
Gao Xingjian
The Other Shore*
Manjula Padmanabhan
Harvest*
