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Featured Genre: Plays

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CLASSICAL

Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
882 Sophocles

The Bacchae by Euripides
882 Euripides

Eumenides by Aeschylus
882 Aeschylus

Lysistrata by Aristophanes
T Fiction Aristophanes

Medea by Seneca
In The Portable Roman Reader
870.8 D

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
822.33 Shakespeare

For Beginners:
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Romeo and Juliet
Richard III
As You Like It

Intermediate:
King Lear
Macbeth
Twelfth Night
Richard II

Advanced:
Henry V
Hamlet
Othello
Much Ado about Nothing

OTHER ELIZABETHANS AND CONTEMPORARIES

The Miser by Moliere
842 Moliere

Volpone by Ben Jonson
In Four Great Elizabethan Plays
822.08 Gassner

Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
In Four Great Elizabethan Plays
822.08 Gassner

Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
In The Great Playwrights
808.82 Bentley

RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY

The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
In Studies in Drama
808.82 Bonazza

She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith
822 Goldsmith

The Country Wife by William Wycherley
In Six Restoration Plays
822.4082 Wilson

The Way of the World by William Congreve
In Six Restoration Plays
822.4082 Wilson

THE MODERN DRAMATISTS

Miss Julie by August Strindberg
In Studies in Drama
808.82 Bonazza

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen
839.82 Ibsen

The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
In Studies in Drama
808.82 Bonazza

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
822 Shaw

TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN CLASSICS

Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
812 Miller

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
812 Williams

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
812 Williams

Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
812 O'Neill

Desire under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill
812 O'Neill

Our Town by Thornton Wilder
812 Wilder

POSTMODERN DRAMATISTS

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
In 50 Best Plays of the American Theatre
812.08 Fifty

The Zoo Story by Edward Albee
812 Fifty

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
T Paperback Beckett

The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionesco
842 Ionesco

Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
852.91 Pirandello

The Balcony by Jean Genet
In Nine Plays of the Modern Theater
808.82 Nine

MORE GREAT READS

'Night Mother by Marsha Norman
812.54 Norman

Bus Stop by William Inge
812 Inge

Equus by Peter Shaffer
822 Shaffer

The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
In Four Great Elizabethan Plays
822.08 Gassner

The Sisters Rosensweig by Wendy Wasserstein
812.54 Wasserstein

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
812 Hansberry

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
842.914 Sartre

Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
In Plays of Our Time
808.82 Cerf

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
828 Wilde

Picnic by William Inge
812 Inge

The Crucible by Arthur Miller
812.52 Miller

Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
812 Lawrence

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams
In Best American Plays 1951-1957
812.08 B

The Children's Hour by Lillian Hellman
812 Hellman

New and Bestselling

Award Winners

Children's Book Awards
Books Featured on TV and Radio
Online Reading Group Guides
LibraryThing

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Juvenile Series and Sequels

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