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v. 1. Antiquity through the eighteenth century

v. 2. The nineteenth century to the present.

v. 1. Introduction. Drama and theater ; A short history of theater ; Greek theater ; Roman theater ; Classical Indian theater ; Classical Chinese theater ; Classical Japanese theater ; Medieval European theater ; Theater in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 ; English theater, 1576-1642 ; Spanish theater, 1580-1700 ; French theater, 1630-1700 ; English theater, 1660-1700 ; Eighteenth-century theater ; Romanticism and melodrama, 1800-1880 ; Modern theater, 1880-1945 ; Postwar theater, 1945-1970 ; Contemporary theater ; Reading drama, imagining theater

Agamemnon (458 B.C.E.) / Aeschylus

Oedipus the King (ca. 428 B.C.E.) / Sophocles

Lysistrata (411 B.C.E.) / Aristophanes

The Bacchae (406 B.C.E.) / Euripides

Pseudolus (191 B.C.E.) / Titus Maccius Plautus

Thyestes (ca. 60 C.E.) / Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The little clay cart (ca. 2nd or 3rd century C.E.) / Shudraka

The martyrdom of the holy virgins Agape, Chionia, and Hirena (Dulcitius) (965-975?) / Hrotsvit of Gandersheim

Snow in midsummer (13th century) / Guan Hanqing

Atsumori (ca. 1400) / Zeami Motokiyo

The second shepherd's play (ca. 1475) / The Wakefield Master

Everyman (ca. 1510) / Anonymous

The Spanish tragedy (1587) / Thomas Kyd

Doctor Faustus (1590-63) / Christopher Marlowe

The shoemaker's holiday (1600) / Thomas Dekker

Hamlet (1600-1601) ; Twelfth Night (1600-1601) / William Shakespeare

Volpone (1606) / Ben Jonson

The Duchess of Malfi (1631-14) / John Webster

Fuenteovejuna (ca. 1614) / Lope de Vega Carpio

Life is a dream (1636) / Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Tartuffe (1664-69) / Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin)

The country wife (1675) / William Wycherley

The Rover (1677) / Aphra Behn

Phaedra (1677) / Jean Racine

Loa for The divine Narcissus (ca. 1690) / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz

The London merchant (1731) / George Lillo

The mistress of the inn (1752) / Carlo Goldoni

The school for scandal (1777) / Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Faust, Part 1 (1808) / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

v. 2. Introduction Drama and theater ; A short history of theater ; Greek theater ; Roman theater ; Classical Indian theater ; Classical Chinese theater ; Classical Japanese theater ; Medieval European theater ; Theater in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 ; English theater, 1576-1642 ; Spanish theater, 1580-1700 ; French theater, 1630-1700 ; English theater, 1660-1700 ; Eighteenth-century theater ; Romanticism and melodrama, 1800-1880 ; Modern theater, 1880-1945 ; Postwar theater, 1945-1970 ; Contemporary theater ; Reading drama, imagining theater

Woyzeck (1836) / Georg Buchner

Escape, or, a leap for freedom (1858) / William Wells Brown

Miss Julie (1888) / August Strindberg

Hedda Gabler (1891) / Henrik Ibsen

Importance of being Earnest (1895) / Oscar Wilde

Ubu the King (1896) / Alfred Jarry

Cherry orchard (1904) / John Millington Synge

Riders to the sea (1904) / John Millington Synge

Pygmalion (1913) / George Bernard Shaw

Trifles (1916) / Susan Glaspell

Six characters in search of an author (1921) / Luigi Pirandello

Soul gone home (1936) / Langston Hughes

House of Bernarda Alba (1936) / Federico García Lorca

Good person of Szechwan (1938-40) / Bertolt Brecht

Maids (1947) / Jean Genet

Streetcar named desire (1947) / Tennessee Williams

Death of a salesman (1949) / Arthur Miller

Song of death (1950) / Tawfiq Al-Hakim

Waiting for Godot (1953) / Samuel Beckett

Sea at dauphin (1954) / Derek Walcott

Long day's journey into night (1957) / Eugene O'Neill

Old times (1970) / Harold Pinter

Death and the king's horseman (1975) / Wole Soyinka

Buried child (1978) / Sam Shepard

Crackwalker (1980) / Judith Thompson

"Master Harold" ... and the boys (1982) / Athol Fugard

Mud (1983) / Maria Irene Fornes

Glengarry Glen Ross (1983) / David Mamet

Golden Age (1985) / Louis Nowra

Fences (1985) / August Wilson

M. Butterfly (1988) / David Henry Hwang

Angels in America, Part I, millennium approaches (1991) / Tony Kushner

America play (1994) / Suzan-Lori Parks

Goat (2002) / Edward Albee

Number (2002) / Caryl Churchill.