Recommended Script Reading List
Theatre students are encouraged to broaden their script knowledge outside the classroom by reading different genres, styles and authors. Below is a recommended script list. Many of these scripts are available for check out through the Department of Theatre Arts.
| Script Title | Author |
|---|---|
| Agamemnon | Aeschylus |
| Oedipus the King | Sophocles |
| Antigone | Sophocles |
| The Bacchants | Euripides |
| Lysistrata | Aristophanes |
| The Menaechmus Twins | Plautus |
| Everyman | Anonymous |
| The Second Shepherd's Play | Anonymous |
| Volpone | Ben Johnson |
| The Duchess of Malfi | H. John Webster |
| Doctor Faustus | Christopher Marlowe |
| Tartuffe | Moliere |
| The Rover | Aphra Behn |
| The Sheep Well | Lope de Vega |
| Life is a Dream | Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
| School for Scandal | Richard Brinslet Sheridan |
| Miss Julie | August Strindberg |
| Hedda Gabler | Henrick Ibsen |
| A Doll's House | Henrick Ibsen |
| Arms and the Man | George Bernard Shaw |
| Pygmalion | George Bernard Shaw |
| The Importance of Being Earnest | Oscar Wilde |
| The Cherry Orchard | Anton Chekhov |
| Six Characters in Search of an Author | Luigi Pirandello |
| The Children's Hour | Lillian Hellman |
| The Little Foxes | Lillian Hellman |
| Mother Courage | Bertolt Brecht |
| Our Town | Thornton Wilder |
| The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams |
| A Streetcar Named Desire | Tennessee Williams |
| Death of a Salesman | Arthur Miller |
| Waiting for Godot | Samuel Beckett |
| Long Day's Journey into Night | Eugene O'Neill |
| Birthday Party | Harold Pinter |
| Homecoming | Harold Pinter |
| A Raisin in the Sun | Lorraine Hansberry |
| Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf? | Edward Albee |
| Buried Child | Sam Shephard |
| The Piano Lesson | August Wilson |
| Fences | August Wilson |
| M. Butterfly | David Henry Hang |
| Angels in America: Part I | Tony Kushner |
| Cloud 9 | Caryl Churchill |
| A Midsummer Night's Dream | William Shakespeare |
| Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespare |
| Hamlet | William Shakespeare |