Kent Uni's "50 plays you must have read as a drama student"

Ancient • Aeschylus, The Oresteia • Euripides, The Bacchae, Medea • Plautus, The Rope • Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus Rex

Medieval • Anon, The Castle of Perseverance • Anon, Everyman • Anon, Mankind

Early Modern • Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century European • Calderon, Life Is a Dream • Moliere, Tartuffe • Jean Racine, Phédre

Restoration • Aphra Behn, The Rover • George Etherege The Man of Mode

Eighteenth Century • George Lillo George Barnwell, or the London Merchant

European Classics and Romanticism • Georg Büchner, Woyzeck • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust • Friedrich Schiller, Maria Stuart

Victorian Plays and Melodrama • Collection: The Lights o’ London and other Victorian Plays (Oxfords Worlds Classics) • Colin H Hazlewood, Lady Audley’s Secret • Douglas Jerrold, Black-Ey’d Susan

Nineteenth Century and Naturalism • Nikolai Gogol, The Government Inspector • Gerhart Hauptmann, The Weavers • Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, Peer Gynt • Thomas William Robertson, Caste • August Strindberg, Miss Julie, A Dream Play

Modern European • Antonin Artaud, Spurt of Blood • Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage, Caucasian Chalk Circle • Jean Genet, The Balcony • Alfred Jarry, The Ubu Plays • Georg Kaiser, From Morn to Midnight • Heiner Müller, Hamletmachine • Luigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author • Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening

Twentieth Century British • Edward Bond, Saved • Sean O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars • Caryl Churchill, Cloud Nine, • Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey • Harley Granville Barker, The Voysey Inheritance • Sarah Kane, Blasted • John McGrath The Cheviot, The Stag and the Black, Black Oil • John Osborne, Look Back in Anger • Terrence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea • Mark Ravenhill, Shopping and Fucking

• Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women • George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion, Mrs Warren’s Profession • Peter Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun • Timberlake Wertenbaker, The Love of the Nightingale

Twentieth Century American • Edward Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf • Marie Irene Fornes, The Conduct of Life • Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun • Tony Kushner, Angels in America • Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman • Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night • Gertrude Stein, Four Saints in Three Acts • Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire • Thornton Wilder, Our Town

World Theatre • Aime Césaire, A Tempest • Fugard, Kani and Ntshona, The Island • Wole Soyinka, Death and the King’s Horseman • Noh Plays of Japan: An Anthology, Arthur Waley, ed., Dover 1998