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100 Or So Plays It Would Be a Good Idea to Know If You Want to Write Your Own


Aeschylus. The Oresteia (Agamemnon (Download from Bartleby), The Libation Bearers (Download from Bartleby), and The Eumenides (Download from Bartleby)).

Sophocles. Oedipus Rex. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Antigone. (Download from Bartleby)

Euripides. The Bacchae. (Download from Bartleby)

———. Hippolytus. (Download both texts from Project Gutenberg)

Kalidasa. Shakuntala. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Anonymous. Everyman. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Ujinobu. Awoi No Uye. (Translation, Ezra Pound)

Marlowe, Christopher. Dr. Faustus. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. King Lear. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Macbeth. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Twelfth Night. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. The Tempest. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro. Life Is a Dream. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Moliere. The Misanthrope

———. Tartuffe. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Hsien-Tsu, Tang. The Peony Pavilion.

Racine, Jean-Baptist. Phedre. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Corneille, Pierre. Le Cid. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Congreve, William. The Way of the World.

Wycherley, William. The Country Wife.

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang. Faust I&2. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

von Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich. Maria Stuart (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Goldsmith, Oliver. She Stoops to Conquer. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Chekhov, Anton. The Seagull. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Uncle Vanya. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. The Three Sisters. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. The Cherry Orchard. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Ibsen, Henrik. Peer Gynt.

———. A Doll's House. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Hedda Gabler. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Strindberg, August. The Father. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. A Dream Play.

Shaw, George Bernard. Mrs. Warrens Profession. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Man and Superman. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Saint Joan.

Brecht, Bertolt. Baal.

———. Mother Courage.

———. The Life of Galileo.

Lorca, Federico Garcia. Blood Wedding.

———. The House of Bernarda Alba.

———. Yerma.

Tagore, Rabindranath. The Post Office. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

Wedekind, Frank. Spring Awakening.

———. The Lulu Plays.

Pirandello, Luigi. Six Characters in Search of an Author.

———. Enrico IV.

Yeats, William Butler. Cathleen ni Houlihan.

Synge, John Millington. The Playboy of the Western World. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Riders to the Sea. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

O'Casey, Sean. The Plough and the Stars.

———. Juno and the Paycock.

O'Neill, Eugene. The Hairy Ape. (Download from Project Gutenberg)

———. Desire under the Elms.

———. Long Day's Journey Into Night.

Odets, Clifford.Waiting for Lefty.

———. Awake and Sing.

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman.

———. All My Sons.

———. The Crucible.

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.

———. The Glass Menagerie.

———. Camino Real.

Wilder, Thornton. Our Town.

———. The Skin of Our Teeth.

Kaufman, George S. and Moss Hart. You Can't Take It With You.

Hellman, Lillian. The Little Foxes.

Rodgers, Richard and Oscar Hammerstein. Oklahoma.

———. Carousel.

Loesser, Frankand Jo Swerling. Guys and Dolls.

Giraudoux, Jean.The Madwoman of Chaillot.

———. Tiger at the Gates.

Anouilh, Jean. Antigone.

———. Ring Round the Moon.

Cocteau, Jean. The Infernal Machine.

Sartre, Jean-Paul. No Exit.

Camus, Albert. Caligula.

Genet, Jean. The Maids.

———. The Blacks.

Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger.

———.The Entertainer.

Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.

———. Arcadia.

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot.

———. Endgame.

Ionesco, Eugene. The Bald Soprano.

———. Rhinoceros.

Albee, Edward. The Zoo Story.

———. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Mamet, David. American Buffalo.

———. Glengarry Glen Ross.

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun.

Kennedy, Adrienne. Funnyhouse of a Negro.

Wilson, August. Fences.

———. The Piano Lesso.

Kushner, Tony. Angels in America.

———. Homebody/Kabul.

Rivera, Jose. Marisol.

Fornes, Maria Irene. Fefu and Her Friends.


 








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