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

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1 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 Euripides Aristophanes Oedipus Rex Oedipus at Colonus Antigone The Bacchae Medea The Trojan Women Electra 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 John Ford Valpone The Alchemist Tis Pity She s a Whore British Restoration and Georgian Oliver Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer William Congreve The Way of the World

2 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 19 th Century Anton Chekov The Seagull Uncle Vanya The Three Sisters The Cherry Orchard Henrik Ibsen August Strindberg Edmond Rostand Oscar Wilde John Gay A Doll s House Hedda Gabler Ghosts The Master Builder An Enemy of the People Miss Julie A Dream Play Cyrano de Bergerac The Importance of Being Earnest The Ideal Husband The Beggar s Opera European Early 20 th Century Georges Feydeau A Flea in Her Ear Bertolt Brecht Luigi Pirandello Federico Garcia Lorca Mother Courage and Her Children Good Person of Sechuan Caucasian Chalk Circle Six Characters in Search of an Author The House of Bernarda Alba Yerma Blood Wedding

3 European Early 20 th Century Continued Eugene Ionesco Rhinoceros The Bald Saprano Exit the King George Bernard Shaw Sean O Casey John Millington Synge Noel Coward Samuel Beckett Pygmalion Misalliance St. Joan The Plough and the Stars The Shadow of a Gunmen Playboy of the Western World Rider s to the Sea Private Lives Blithe Spirit Waiting for Godot Endgame Happy Days American Early 20 th Century Eugene O Neil Long Days Journey Into Night Moon for the Misbegotten The Iceman Cometh Ah! Wilderness Thorton Wilder Clifford Odets Kauffman and Hart William Inge Lillian Hellman Our Town The Skin of our Teeth Awake and Sing Golden Boy Waiting for Lefty You Can t Take it With You Picnic Bus Stop The Little Foxes The Children s Hour European Latter 20 th Century Harold Pinter The Homecoming The Birthday Party The Caretaker Betrayal

4 European Latter 20 th Century Continued John Osborn Look Back in Anger Peter Schaffer Caryl Churchill Wole Soyinka Athol Fugard Brian Friel Tom Stoppard Amadeus Equs Cloud Nine Top Girls Death and the King s Horseman Master Harold and The Boys Dancing at Lughnasa Translations Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead The Real Thing The Invention of Love Arcadia Coast of Utopia Plays American Latter 20 th Century Arthur Miller All My Sons Death of a Salesman A View Form the Bridge The Crucible Tennessee Williams Lorraine Hansberry Edward Albee Neil Simon Sam Shephard A Streetcar Named Desire Cat on a Hot Tin Roof The Glass Menagerie A Raisin in the Sun Who s Afraid of Virginia Woolf A Delicate Balance Three Tall Women Barefoot in the Park The Odd Couple Brighton Beach Trilogy Lost in Yonkers Buried Child True West A Lie of the Mind

5 American Latter 20 th Century Continued David Mamet Glengarry Glen Ross American Buffalo Oleanna August Wilson Beth Henley Lanford Wilson David Henry Hwang Marsha Norman Tony Kushner Tina Howe John Guare Craig Lucas Charles Fuller Alfred Uhry Robert Schenken Margaret Edson Horton Foote Wendy Wasserstein Fences The Piano Lesson Ma Rainey s Black Bottom Crimes of the Heart Tallys Folly Burn This M. Butterfly Night Mother Angels in America: Millennium Approaches Angels in America: Perestroika Painting Churches Six Degrees of Separation House of Blue Leaves Prelude to a Kiss A Soldier s Play Driving Miss Daisy The Kentucky Cycle Wit The Young Man From Atlanta The Heidi Chronicles 21 st Century Contemporary Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive Yasmina Reza Donald Marguiles Art God of Carnage Dinner With Friends

6 21 st Century Contemporary Continued David Auburn Proof Tracy Letts David Lindsay Abaire John Patrick Shanley Doug Wright Nilo Cruz Suzan-Lori Parks Bruce Norris August: Osage County Rabbit Hole Doubt I am My Own Wife Anna in the Tropics Top-dog/Underdog Clybourne Park Musicals Kern/Hammerstein Showboat Gershwin/Gershwin Kaufman/Gershwin Cole Porter Rodgers/Hart Rodgers/Hammerstein Bernstein/Camden Loesser/Burrows Lerner/Loewe Irving Berlin Bock/Harnick Bernstein/Sondheim Steven Sondheim Porgy and Bess Of Thee I Sing Anything Goes Pal Joey Oklahoma Carousel South Pacific On the Town Guys and Dolls How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying My Fair Lady Annie Get Your Gun Fiddler on the Roof West Side Story A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum Company Sweeny Todd and Sunday in the Park With George

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