I Getting Started
What is Drama?
Whom Do You Seek (Quem Quaeritis?), Anonymous
Mistakes, Conflicts, and Audience-Awareness
Plot, Character, Theme
In Brief: How To Read a Play
Trifles Susan Glaspell
A Second Short Play For Study: A Performer-Generated Script
My Brazil: A Recital Rachel Rosenthal
Some Kinds of Drama
II A Collection of Plays
Classical Greek Theater: With a Note on Roman Drama
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
Antigone, Sophocles
Medea, Euripedes
Lysistrata, Aristophanes
Medieval Theater: England and Japan
The Second Shepherds' Play, The Wakefield Master Everyman, Anonymous
Dojoji, Anonymous
English Renaissance Theater
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe
A Midsummer Night's Dream William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare
Seventeenth-Century Drama: England and the Continent
Fuente Ovejuna Lope de Vega
The Cid: A Tragedy Pierre Corneille
The Insane Asylum: A Commedia dell'arte Scenario, Anonymous
Tartuffe Moliere
The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers Aphra Behn
Classic Modern Drama
A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen
Miss Julie August Strindberg
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People Oscar Wilde
The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov
Major Barbara Bernard Shaw
American Theater Comes of Age
The Emperor Jones Eugene O'Neill
Machinal Sophie Treadwell
Waiting for Lefty Clifford Odets
The Mother of Us All Gertrude Stein
Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller
The American Musical
Gypsy: A Musical Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim and Jule Styne
Suddenly Last Summer Tennessee Williams
The Sandbox Edward Albee
African American Theater
Funnyhouse of a Negro Adrienne Kennedy
Hispanic American Theater
Los Vendidos Luis Valdez
The World Stage in the Twentieth Century
Women's Theater
Votes for Women Elizabeth Robins
Purgatory William Butler Yeats
The Good Woman of Setzuan Bertolt Brecht
The Dumb Waiter Harold Pinter
Krapp's Last Tape: A Play in One Act Samuel Beckett
The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite Wole Soyinka
We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay! Dario Fo
Pantomime Derek Walcott
Top Girls Caryl Churchill
The Real Thing Tom Stoppard
Contemporary American Visions
True West Sam ShepardGlengarry Glen Ross and David MametTerminal and Susan Yankowitz and Joseph Chaikin
Asian American Theater
The Dance and the Railroad David Henry Hwang
Fences August Wilson
The Conduct of Life Maria Irene Fornes
Fires in the Mirror Anna Deveare Smith
Angels in America
Part I The Millennium Approaches Tony Kushner
In the Blood Suzan-Lori Parks
III Writing About Drama
Writing About Drama?
Basic Matters
Writing about a Film Based on a Play
A Sample Student Essay, Using Sourc"