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 American Latter 20th Century Continued______________________________________ David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross American Buffalo Oleanna August Wilson Fences The Piano Lesson Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom Beth Henley Crimes of the Heart Lanford Wilson Tallys Folly Burn This David Henry Hwang M. Butterfly Marsha Norman Night Mother Tony Kushner Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Angels in America: Perestroika Tina Howe Painting Churches John Guare Six Degrees of Separation House of Blue Leaves Craig Lucas Prelude to a Kiss Charles Fuller A Soldier’s Play Alfred Uhry Driving Miss Daisy Robert Schenken The Kentucky Cycle Margaret Edson Wit Horton Foote The Young Man From Atlanta Wendy Wasserstein The Heidi Chronicles 21st Century Contemporary_________________________________________________ Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive Yasmina Reza Art God of Carnage Donald Marguiles Dinner With Friends 21st Century Contemporary Continued_______________________________________ David Auburn Proof Tracy Letts August: Osage County David Lindsay Abaire Rabbit Hole John Patrick Shanley Doubt Doug Wright I am My Own Wife Nilo Cruz Anna in the Tropics Suzan-Lori Parks Top-dog/Underdog Bruce Norris Clybourne Park Musicals________________________________________________________________ Kern/Hammerstein Showboat Gershwin/Gershwin Porgy and Bess Kaufman/Gershwin Of Thee I Sing Cole Porter Anything Goes Rodgers/Hart Pal Joey Rodgers/Hammerstein Oklahoma Carousel South Pacific Bernstein/Camden On the Town Loesser/Burrows Guys and Dolls How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Lerner/Loewe My Fair Lady Irving Berlin Annie Get Your Gun Bock/Harnick Fiddler on the Roof Bernstein/Sondheim West Side Story Steven Sondheim A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Company Sweeny Todd and Sunday in the Park With George .