Reading List for the General Public
Classic Works of Fiction
Contemporary Works of Fiction
Works of World Drama
Works of Children's Literature
READING LIST FOR THE PUBLIC:
DRAMA
A
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
(Greek, 5th century BCE)
Albee, Edward, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (American,
20th century)
Anon., Everyman (English, 15th century)
Anon., The Second Shepherds' Play (English, 15th century)
Anouilh, Jean, Antigone (French, 20th century)
Aristophanes, Lysistrata (Greek, 5th century BCE)
B
Baldwin, James, Blues for
Mister Charlie (American, 20th century)
Baraka, Imamu, Dutchman (American, 20th century)
Barnes, Peter, The Ruling Class (English, 20th century)
Beaumarchais, Pierre de, The Marriage of Figaro (French,
18th century)
Beckett, Samuel, Waiting for Godot (Irish-French, 20th century)
Brecht, Bertolt, The Caucasian Chalk Circle (German,
20th century)
Büchner, Georg, Woyzeck (German, 19th century)
C
Calderon, Pedro, Life Is
a Dream (Spanish, 17th century)
Camus, Albert, Caligula (French, 20th century)
Chekhov, Anton, The Cherry Orchard (Russian, 19th-20th century)
Chikamatsu, Chusinguia: Treasury of Royal Retainers (Japanese,
17th-18th century)
Cocteau, Jean, The Infernal Machine (French, 20th century)
Congreve, William, The Way of the World (English, 17th century)
Corneille, Pierre, The Cid (French, 17th century)
D
Dryden, John, All for Love
(English, 17th century)
Dumas, Alexandre (fils), The Lady of the Camelias (French,
19th century)
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich, The Physicists (Swiss, 20th century)
E
Eliot, T. S., Murder in
the Cathedral (American-English, 20th century)
Euripides, The Bacchae (Greek, 5th century BCE)
F
Frisch, Max, The Firebugs
(Swiss, 20th century)
Fry, Christopher, The Lady's Not for Burning (English, 20th
century)
Fugard, Athol, Master Harold and the Boys (South Africa,
20th century)
G
Gay, John, The Beggar's
Opera (English, 18th century)
Genet, Jean, The Balcony (French, 20th century)
Giraudoux, Jean, Tiger at the Gates (French, 20th century)
Goethe, Johann von, Faust (German, 18th-19th century)
Gogol, Nikolai, The Gamblers (Russian, 19th century)
Goldsmith, Oliver, She Stoops to Conquer (English,
18th century)
H
Hansberry, Lorraine, A Raisin
in the Sun (American, 20th century)
Hellman, Lillian, The Little Foxes (American, 20th
century)
Hochhuth, Rolf, The Deputy (German, 20th century)
Hugo, Victor, Hernani (French, 19th century)
I
Ibsen, Henrik, Hedda Gabler
(Norwegian, 19th century)
Inge, William, Picnic (American, 20th century)
Ionesco, Eugene, Rhinoceros (French, 20th century)
J
Jonson, Ben, Volpone (English, 17th century)
K
Kalidos, Shakuntala
(Indian, 5th century)
Kennedy, Adrienne Funnyhouse of a Negro (American, 20th
century)
Kipphardt, Heinar, In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer
(German, 20th century)
Kramer, Larry, Faggot (American, 20th century)
Kushner, Tony, Angels in America (American, 20th century)
L
Lorca, Federico Garcia, The House of Bernarda Alba (Spanish, 20th century)
M
MacLeish, Archibald, J.
B. (American, 20th century)
Maeterlinck, Maurice, The Blue Bird (Belgian, 20th century)
Mamet, David, American Buffalo (American, 20th century)
Marlowe, Christopher, Dr. Faustus (English, 16th century)
McCullers, Carson, Member of the Wedding (American, 20th
century)
Miller, Arthur, Death of a Salesman (American, 20th century)
Moliere, Jean Baptiste, Tartuffe (French, 17th century)
Montherlant, Henri de, La Reine Morte (French, 20th century)
O
O'Casey, Sean, Juno and
the Paycock (Irish, 20th century)
Odets, Clifford, Waiting for Lefty (American, 20th century)
O'Neill, Eugene, Long Day's Journey into Night (American,
20th century)
Orton, Joe, What the Butler Saw (English, 20th century)
P
Pinter, Harold, The Birthday
Party (English, 20th century)
Pirandello, Luigi, Six Characters in Search of an Author
(Italian, 20th century)
Plautus, Titus, Amphitryon (Roman, 3rd-2nd century BCE)
R
Racine, Jean, Phaedra
(French, 17th century)
Rice, Elmer, The Adding Machine (American, 20th century)
Rostand, Edmond, Cyrano de Bergerac (French, 19th century)
S
Sanchez, Florencio, Down
the Gully (Argentine, 20th century)
Sartre, Jean Paul, No Exit (French, 20th century)
Schiller, Friedrich, Maria Stuart (German, 18th century)
Shaffer, Peter, Amadeus (English, 20th century)
Shakespeare, William, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's
Dream (English, 16th-17th century)
Shange, Ntosake, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When
the Rainbow Is Enuf (American, 20th century)
Shaw, George Bernard, Major Barbara (Irish, 20th century)
Solorzano, Carlos, The Hands of God (Guatemalan, 20th century)
Sophocles, Oedipus the King (Greek, 5th century BCE)Soyinka, Wole,
A Dance of the Forests (Nigerian, 20th century)
Stoppard, Tom, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (English,
20th century)
Strindberg, August, Miss Julie (Swedish, 19th-20th century)
Synge, John Millington, Playboy of the Western World (Irish,
20th century)
T
Terence (Publius Terentius Afer),
The Eunuch (Roman, 2nd century BCE)
Tsuchi, Sukeroku: Flower of Edo (Japanese)
U
Usigli, Rodolfo, El Gesticulador (Mexican, 20th century
W
Webster, John, The Duchess
of Malfi (English, 17th century)
Weiss, Peter, Marat/Sade (The Assassination of Marat as Performed
by the Inmates of Charenton Asylum under the Direction of the Marquis
de Sade) (German, 20th century)
Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest (English-Irish,
19th-20th century)
Wilder, Thornton, Our Town (American, 20th century)
Williams, Tennessee, A Streetcar Named Desire (American,
20th century)
Wilson, August, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (American, 20th
century)
Wycherley, William, The Country Wife (English, 17th century)
Y
Yeats, William Butler, The Countess Cathleen (Irish, 20th century)