A treasury of the theatre

V. 1: World drama from Aeschylus to Turgenev

The classic age

Agamemnon / Aeschylus

Oedipus the king / Sophocles

The Trojan women / Euripides

The frogs / Aristophanes

The menaechmi / Plautus

The brothers / Terence

The Oriental theatre

Shakuntala / Kalidasa

Sotoba Komachi / Kwanami Kiyotsugu

The Medieval drama

Abraham and Isaac / Unknown

The second shepherds' play / Unknown

Everyman / Unknown

The Renaissasnce

The tragical history of Doctor Faustus / Christopher Marlowe

Hamlet / William Shakespeare

Volpone / Ben Jonson

The duchess of Malfi / John Webster

Fuente Ovejuna / Lope de Vega

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The misanthrope / Molière

Phaedra / Jean Racine

The way of the world / William Congreve

The school for scandal / Richard B. Sheridan

The Romantic and early Realistic drama

Faust, Part one / J.W. von Goethe

No trifling with love / Alfred de Musset

Danton's death / Georg Büchner

The inspector / Nikolai Gogol

Maria Magdalena / Friedrich Hebbel

A month in the country / Ivan Turgenev

V. 2: Modern European drama from Henrik Ibsen to Jean-Paul Sartre

Realism and Naturalism

Ghosts / Henrik Ibsen

Hedda Gabler / Henrik Ibsen

The father / August Strindberg

The vultures / Henry Becque

The weavers / Gerhart Hauptmann

The tenor / Frank Wedekind

The power of darkness / Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy

The cherry orchard / Anton Chekhov

The lower depths / Maxim Gorki

Departures from realism

The intruder / Maurice Maeterlinck

Cyrano de Bergerac / Edmond Rostand

There are crimes and crimes / August Strindberg

Liliom / Ferenc Molnar

Six characters in search of an author / Luigi Pirandello

R.U.R. / Karel Capek

Blood wedding / Federico García Lorca

from The private life of the master race / Bertolt Brecht

The flies / Jean-Paul Sartre

V. 3: Modern British and American drama from Oscar Wilde to Arthur Miller

Modern drama in England and Ireland

The importance of being Earnest / Oscar Wilde

Candida / George B. Shaw

The admirable Crichton / James M. Barrie

Escape / John Galsworthy

The workhouse ward / Lady Gregory

Riders to the sea / John Millington Synge

The plough and the stars / Sean O'Casey

The circle / W.Somerset Maugham

Journey's End / R. C. Sherriff

Blithe Spirit / Noel Coward

Modern American Drama

Anna Christie / Eugene O'Neill

The hairy ape / Eugene O'Neill

What price glory? / Laurence Stallings and Maxwell Anderson

Elizabeth the queen / Maxwell Anderson

The green pastures / Marc Connelly

Our town / Thornton Wilder

Golden boy / Clifford Odets

The little foxes / Lillian Hellman

My heart's in the highlands / William Saroyan

The glass menagerie / Tennessee Williams

Death of a salesman / Arthur Miller.