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Webster University Reading ListANTIQUITY

Aeschylus The Oresteia

Aristophanes Lysistrata

Euripides Medea

Sophocles Oedipus Rex

Plautus The Menaechmi

MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE

Anonymous Everyman

Webster The Duchess of Malfi

Calderon Life is a Dream

Lope de Vega Fuente Ovejuna

Marlowe The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

Moliere Tartuffe; The Miser

Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream; Romeo & Juliet; Much Ado About Nothing;

As You Like It; Richard III; Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Henry V; The

Tempest

RESTORATION, 18th &19th CENTURY

Behn The Rover

Congreve The Way of the World

Goldsmith She Stoops to Conquer

Ibsen A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler

Sheridan The School for Scandal

Strindberg Miss Julie

Wedekind Spring's Awakening

Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Wycherley The Country Wife

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FILMS

Citizen Kane , (1941, Orson Welles)

The Rules of the Game (1939, Jean Renoir)

Modern Times (1936, Charles Chaplin)

Some Like It Hot (1959, Wilder)

Vertigo (1958, Alfred Hitchcock)

Rashomon (1950, Akira Kurosawa)

A Trip to the Moon (1902, Georges Melies)

Battleship Potemkin (1925, Sergei Eisenstein)

The Seventh Seal (1956, Ingmar Bergman

The Bicycle Thief (1949, Vittorio DeSica)

Metropolis (1926, Fritz Lang)

Aguirre: the Wrath of God (1972, Werner Herzog)

Sunset Boulevard (1950, Billy Wilder)

The 400 Blows (1959, Francois Truffaut)

Singin' in the Rain (1952, Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly)

Duck Soup (1933, Leo McCarey)

The Third Man (1949, Carol Reed)