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What are some essential plays one needs to have read or seen?
Is there a chart?

>> No.14731476

>>14731290
great board

>> No.14731579

There are like hundreds of them. Maybe start with the Greeks and Romans (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plautus, Terence, Seneca the Younger). Move on to early modern dramatists from Spain (Lope, Calderon), England (Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Dryden), and France (Corneille, Moliere, Racine). Jump to the Enlightenment and Romanticism (Lessing, Goethe and Schiller in Germany, Pushkin in Russia). After this comes the Realist era (Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov). Then you can read some of the works from the Decadent and Modern periods (Wilde, Shaw, Brecht, Pirandello, Beckett). Then there's much more beyond that, but that's a good enough place to start. Just look up their most famous works.

>> No.14731629

>>14731579
Fair general list, anon.

>> No.14731674

>>14731579
This is really comprehensive. Good job.

I would maybe add to the modern/postmodern plays Peter Handke. Check out 'Offending the Audience'.

>> No.14731686

>>14731579
What do you think of Eugene O'Neill?

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>> No.14732954

>>14731579
Good post.