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A SELECTED LIST OF PERIOD PLAYS FOR THE HIGH SCHOOL THEATRE
Plays for Production or Reading
 

Greek
Aeschylus, PROMETHEUS BOUND
Sophocles, OEDIPUS REX, ANTIGONE
Euripides, MEDEA, THE TROJAN WOMEN, CYCLOPS, THE BACCHAE
Aristophanes, LYSISTRATA, THE FROGS, THE BIRDS

Roman
Plautus, THE MENAECHIMI (THE TWINS), MILES GLORIOSUS (THE BRAGGART WARRIOR)
Terence, ADELPHOE (THE BROTHERS) Seneca, HERCULES

Medieval
Anonymous, MASTER PIERRE PATELIN
Anonymous, EVERYMAN

Renaissance
William Stevenson, GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE
Nicholas Udall, RALPH ROISTER DOISTER
Niccolo Machiavelli, LA MANDRAGOLA (THE MANDRAKE)
Lope de Vega Carpio, FUENTE OVEJUNA

Elizabethan
Christopher Marlowe, DOCTOR FAUSTUS, EDWARD II
Ben Johnson, VOLPONE, BARTHOLOMEW FAIR
John Webster, THE DUTCHESS OF MALFI
John Ford, 'TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE
William Shakespeare, ROMEO AND JULIET, A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM,
HAMLET, MACBETH, THE COMEDY OF ERRORS, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE,
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, AS YOU LIKE IT, MUCH ADO ABOUT
NOTHING, TWELFTH NIGHT, KING LEAR, THE TEMPEST, ANTONY AND
CLEOPATRA, HENRY IV (PART 1)

Restoration
William Congreve, THE WAY OF THE WORLD
George Etherege, THE MAN OF MODE, OR SIR FOPLING FLUTTER
William Wycherley, THE COUNTRY WIFE
Pierre Corneille, LE CID
Moliere, THE DOCTOR IN SPITE OF HIMSELF, TARTUFFE, THE IMAGINARY INVALID, THE MISER, THE BOURGEOIS GENTLEMAN, THE VERSAILLES IMPROMPTU

Georgian (18th century)
John Gay, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
Oliver Goldsmith, SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER
Richard Sheridan, THE RIVALS, THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL
Pierre Beaumarchais, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO, THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Carlo Goldoni, THE SERVANT OF TWO MASTERS Royall Tyler, THE CONTRAST

19th Century
Dion Boucicault, OCTOROON
Edmond Rostand, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, THE ROMANCERS
Nikolai Gogol, THE INSPECTOR GENERAL
Alexander Ostrovsky, THE THUNDERSTORM
Ivan Turgenev, A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY
Anna Cora Mowatt, FASHION
Augustin Daly, UNDER THE GASLIGHT
William Gillette, SECRET SERVICE
George Aiken (adaptor), UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Late 19th & Early 20th Centuries
Henrik Ibsen, HEDDA GABLER, A DOLL'S HOUSE, PEER GYNT
August Strindberg, THE FATHER, MISS JULIE
George Bernard Shaw, SAINT JOAN, CANDIDA, PYGMALION, HEARTBREAK HOUSE, MRS. WARREN'S PROFESSION
James Barrie, PETER PAN
Maurice Maeterlinak, THE BLUE BIRD
Anton Chekhov, THE CHERRY ORCHARD, THE THREE SISTERS, UNCLE VANYA, ON THE HARMFULNESS OF TOBACCO
Oscar Wilde, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN

Experimental 20th Century
Eugene lonesco, THE BALD SOPRANO, RHINOCEROS
Samuel Beckett, WAITING FOR GODOT
Jean-Paul Sarte, NO EXIT
Bertolt Brecht, THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE, MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN, GALILEO
Alfred Jarry, UBU ROI