Plays

Henrik Ibsen. A Doll’s House

August Strindberg. Miss Julie

Oscar Wilde. The Importance of Being Earnest

George Bernard Shaw. Pygmalion

Anton Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard

Luigi Pirandello. Six Characters in Search of an Author

John Millington Synge. The Playboy of the Western World

Susan Glaspell. The Verge.

Eugene O’Neill. Desire Under the Elms

Thornton Wilder. Our Town

Bertold Brecht. The Threepenny Opera

Lillian Hellman. The Children’s Hour

Samuel Beckett. Endgame

Eugène Ionesco. Rhinoceros

Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie

Arthur Miller. All My Sons

Edward Albee. The Zoo Story

Lorraine Hansberry. A Raisin in the Sun

Harold Pinter. The Birthday Party

Wole Soyinka.The Lion and the Jewel

Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Sam Shepard. Buried Child

August Wilson. The Piano Lesson

Marsha Norman. ‘night Mother

Wendy Wasserstein. The Sisters Rosensweig

Drama Criticism

George Bernard Shaw.  “The Technical Novelty of Ibsen’s Plays”

August Strindberg.  “Author’s Preface toMiss Julie”

Francis Fergusson.  “From The Idea of a Theater”

Luigi Pirandello. “Preface to Six Characters in Search of an Author”

Karen Malpede.  “Reflections on The Verge”

Doris Alexander.  “Desire Under the Elms”

Thornton Wilder. “Some Thoughts on Playwriting”

Bertolt Brecht. “Selected Writings on The Threepenny Opera”

Martin Esslin. “Samuel Beckett: The Search for Self”

Eugène Ionesco. “FromNotes and Counter Notes: Writings on the Theatre”

Geoffrey Borny.  “The Two Glass Menageries:Reading Edition and Acting Edition”

Arthur Miller. “Ibsen and the Drama of Today”

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. “The Chitlin Circuit”

Katherine H. Burkman.  “The Demeter Myth and Doubling in Marsha Norman’s ‘night Mother”

Chronology of Drama, History and Culture

Glossary