DRAMATURGY AND DRAMATIC CRITICISM READING LIST GREEK Aeschylus The Oresteia Aristophanes The Birds Aristotle: Poetics, Book VI Lysistrata Euripides The Bacchae Cyclops Hippolytus Helen Medea The Trojan Women Sophocles Antigone Oedipus at Colonus Oedipus the King ROMAN Plautus Menaechmi MEDIEVAL Anonymous Everyman The York Cycle (selections) The Second Shepherd’s Play ELIZABETHAN/JACOBEAN Ford ’Tis Pity She's a Whore Jonson The Alchemist Volpone Marlowe Doctor Faustus Edward II Middleton The Changeling (with Rowley) Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra As You Like It Comedy of Errors Hamlet Henry IV, Parts I and II Henry V Julius Caesar King Lear Macbeth Measure for Measure The Merchant of Venice A Midsummer Night's Dream Othello Richard II Richard III Romeo and Juliet The Tempest Twelfth Night The Winter's Tale Webster The Duchess of Malfi RESTORATION Behn The Rover, Part 1 Congreve The Way of the World Dryden All for Love Wycherly The Country Wife SPANISH GOLDEN AGE Calderon Life Is a Dream The Phantom Lady Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna Tirso de Molina The Trickster of Seville FRENCH CLASSICISM Corneille The Cid In Dukore: The Cid Controversy Molière The Misanthrope Racine Preface to Phaedra The Miser Tartuffe Racine Phaedra BRITISH AND IRISH THEATER 18th Century Farquhar The Beaux’ Stratagem Gay The Beggars’ Opera Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer Sheridan The School for Scandal 19th Century Shaw Mrs. Warren’s Profession Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest 20th Century Bond Saved Coward Private Lives Churchill Cloud Nine Top Girls Eliot Murder in the Cathedral Friel Translations Hare Plenty O'Casey Juno and the Paycock Orton What the Butler Saw Osborne Look Back in Anger Pinter The Birthday Party The Homecoming Shaw Heartbreak House Shaw Prefaces to listed plays Major Barbara Man and Superman Pygmalion Saint Joan Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead Synge Playboy of the Western World Riders to the Sea MODERN RUSSIAN THEATER Chekhov The Cherry Orchard The Seagull Three Sisters Uncle Vanya Gogol The Government Inspector Gorky The Lower Depths Mayakovsky The Begbug Turgenyev A Month in the Country SCANDINAVIAN DRAMA Ibsen A Doll House Ghosts Hedda Gabler The Master Builder Peer Gynt When We Dead Awaken The Wild Duck Strindberg The Dance of Death, Part 1 Strindberg: Preface to Miss Julie Preface A Dream Play to A Dream Play The Father Ghost Sonata Miss Julie The Pelican The Road to Damascus, Part 1 ITALIAN THEATER Fo Accidental Death of an Anarchist Goldoni The Servant of Two Masters Gozzi The King Stag Machiavelli The Mandrake Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author MODERN SPANISH THEATER Lorca Blood Wedding House of Bernarda Alba The Love of Don Perlimplin for Belisa in the Garden GERMAN LANGUAGE THEATER 18th and 19th Centuries Buechner Woyzeck Goethe Faust I Lessing Hamburg Dramaturgy (in Dukore) Kleist Prince of Homburg Schiller Mary Stuart Wedekind Spring Awakening GERMAN LANGUAGE THEATER (cont’d) 20th Century Brecht Baal The Good Person of Setzuan In the Jungle of Cities Mother Courage and her Children St. Joan of the Stockyards The Threepenny Opera The Caucasian Chalk Circle Duerrenmatt The Visit of the Old Woman Handke Offending the Audience Kaiser From Morn to Midnight Kroetz Farmyard Request Concert Mueller Hamletmachine Weiss Marat/Sade FRENCH LANGUAGE THEATER 18th Century Beaumarchais The Marriage of Figaro Marivaux The Triumph of Love 19th Century Dumas fils The Lady of the Camellias Feydeau A Flea in her Ear Zola Preface to Therese Raquin Maeterlinck The Intruder Hugo: Preface to Cromwell 20th Century Beckett Endgame Happy Days Krapp's Last Tape Rockaby Waiting for Godot Genet The Balcony The Maids Ionesco Amedee The Bald Soprano The Chairs The Lesson Rhinoceros Jarry Ubu Roi Sartre No Exit AMERICAN DRAMA Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Zoo Story Fornes Fefu and Her Friends Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun Hecht/MacArthur The Front Page Hellman The Little Foxes Kaufman/Hart You Can’t Take It with You Kennedy Funnyhouse of a Negro Kushner Angels in America Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross Miller The Crucible Death of a Salesman Odets Awake and Sing! Waiting for Lefty O'Neill The Emperor Jones The Hairy Ape The Iceman Cometh Long Day's Journey Into Night Parks The America Play Rice The Adding Machine Shepard Buried Child Curse of the Starving Class Tooth of Crime True West Stein Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights Treadwell Machinal Wilder Our Town The Skin of our Teeth Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Glass Menagerie A Streetcar Named Desire Wilson Joe Turner’s Come and Gone AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN THEATER Cesaire A Tempest Fugard Blood Knot Master Harold and the Boys THEORY AND CRITICISM Aristotle The Poetics Artaud The Theater and Its Double Bentley The Life of the Drama The Playwright as Thinker Theory of the Modern Stage Boal Theater of the Oppressed Brecht Brecht on Theater (Willet, ed.) Brockett History of the Theater Brook The Empty Space Brustein Theater of Revolt Chaikin The Presence of the Actor Clurman The Fervent Years Dukore Dramatic Theory and Criticism Fuchs The Death of Character Gilman Making of Modern Drama Grotowski Towards a Poor Theater Ionesco Notes and Counternotes Lehmann, Postdramatic Theatre Meyerhold On Theater (Braun, ed. Nietzsche The Birth of Tragedy Robinson The Other American Drama Rogoff Vanishing Acts Shaw, The Quintessence of Ibsenism .