Comprehensive Reading and Listening List Begin Reading Now and Have It Completed by the Time You Finish Graduate School

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Comprehensive Reading and Listening List Begin reading now and have it completed by the time you finish Graduate School

Greek______Aeschylus Agamemmnon The Libation Bearers Eumenides

Sophocles Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus Antigone

Euripides The Bacchae Medea The Trojan Women Electra

Aristophanes Lysistrata The Birds

Medieval______Anonymous Everyman The Second Shepherd’s Play

English Renaissance______Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus Edward II Tambourlaine

Shakespeare Entire Cannon

Spanish Renaissance______Calderon Life is a Dream

English Jacobean______John Webster The White Devil The Duchess of Malfi

Ben Johnson Valpone The Alchemist

John Ford ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore

British Restoration and Georgian______Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

William Congreve The Way of the World

British Restoration and Georgian Continued______Philip Brinsley Sheridan The Rivals School for Scandal

William Wycherly The Country Wife

French Neo-Classical______Moliere School for Wives Tartuffe The Misanthrope

Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters

European 19th Century______Anton Chekov The Seagull Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard

Henrik Ibsen A Doll’s House Hedda Gabler Ghosts The Master Builder An Enemy of the People

August Strindberg Miss Julie A Dream Play

Edmond Rostand Cyrano de Bergerac

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest The Ideal Husband

John Gay The Beggar’s Opera

European Early 20th Century______Georges Feydeau A Flea in Her Ear

Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children Good Person of Sechuan Caucasian Chalk Circle

Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author

Federico Garcia Lorca The House of Bernarda Alba Yerma Blood Wedding European Early 20thCentury Continued______Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros The Bald Saprano Exit the King

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion Misalliance St. Joan

Sean O’Casey The Plough and the Stars The Shadow of a Gunmen

John Millington Synge Playboy of the Western World Rider’s to the Sea

Noel Coward Private Lives Blithe Spirit

Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot Endgame Happy Days

American Early 20th Century______Eugene O’Neil Long Days Journey Into Night Moon for the Misbegotten The Iceman Cometh Ah! Wilderness

Thorton Wilder Our Town The Skin of our Teeth

Clifford Odets Awake and Sing Golden Boy Waiting for Lefty

Kauffman and Hart You Can’t Take it With You

William Inge Picnic Bus Stop

Lillian Hellman The Little Foxes The Children’s Hour

European Latter 20th Century______Harold Pinter The Homecoming The Birthday Party The Caretaker Betrayal European Latter 20th Century Continued______John Osborn Look Back in Anger

Peter Schaffer Amadeus Equs

Caryl Churchill Cloud Nine Top Girls

Wole Soyinka Death and the King’s Horseman

Athol Fugard Master Harold and The Boys

Brian Friel Dancing at Lughnasa Translations

Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead The Real Thing The Invention of Love Arcadia Coast of Utopia Plays

American Latter 20th Century______Arthur Miller All My Sons Death of a Salesman A View Form the Bridge The Crucible

Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Glass Menagerie

Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun

Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf A Delicate Balance Three Tall Women

Neil Simon Barefoot in the Park The Odd Couple Brighton Beach Trilogy Lost in Yonkers

Sam Shephard Buried Child True West A Lie of the Mind