REPRESENTATIVE PLAYWRIGHTS READING LIST

(ENGLISH AND AMERICAN)

Restoration and Restoration-Style Comedy

• SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
• THE RIVALS
• THE WAY OF THE WORLD
• THE COUNTRY WIFE
• SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

Shakespeare

COMEDIES
TRAGEDIES
HISTORIES

Modern

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS

•         CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
•         STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
•         SUMMER AND SMOKE
•         THE ECCENTRICITIES OF THE NIGHTINGALE
•         THE GLASS MENAGERIE

EUGENE O’NEILL

•         DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS
•         MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA
•         LONG DAYS JOURNEY INTO NIGHT
•         7 PLAYS OF THE SEA

ARTHUR MILLER

•         THE CRUCIBLE
•         ALL OUR SONS

LANFORD WILSON

DAVID RABE

•         HURLYBURLY

AR GURNEY

•         COCKTAIL HOUR
•         LOVE LETTERS

CARYL CHURCHILL

•         TOP GIRLS

CHRISTOPHER DURANG

•         BEYOND THERAPY

JEFFREY SWEET

HORTON FOOTE