Plays List - Let's Read Plays! Event 2012

Shakespeare
Comedy A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Merchant of Venice
Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
Twelfth Night
As You Like It
All's Well That Ends Well
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merry Wives of Windsor
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
Tragedy Romeo and Juliet
Anthony and Cleopatra
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Coriolanus
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
History Richard II
Richard III
Henry IV
Henry V
Henry VI
Henry VIII
Cymbeline
King John
Pericles
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
An Ideal Husband
Lady Windermere's Fan
A Woman of No Importance
Salome
Others Anton Chekhov The Cherry Orchard
The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
Ivanov
Goethe Faust
Tenesse Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
The Glass Menagerie
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Suddenly
Last Summer

The Rose Tattoo


George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion
Saint Joan
Caesar and Cleopatra
Arms and the Man

Ancient Greek

Sophocles

Oedipus The King
Antigone
Ajax
Electra
Euripides The Bacchae
The Troja Women
Medea
Hyppolitus
Alcestis
Aeschylus The Oresteia
The Persians
Prmetheus Bound
Seven Against Thebes
The Supplicants
Aristophanes Lysistrata
The Clouds 
The Birds
The Frogs
The Knights

6 comments:

  1. May I suggest George Bernard Shaw? He's brilliant!..and..er...he hated Shakespeare...but that's beside the point. Most of his plays are social satire. You might be familiar with his work Pygmalion, which was made into the movie My Fair Lady starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn. Two or three other famous plays of his are Arms and the Man, Joan of Arc, and Major Barbara. He has quite a few more but the ones I've mentioned are the ones I'm familiar with.

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    1. Of course you may, Risa. Of course the list is far from complete, it's only to give suggestions. But OK, I will add Bernard Shaw in it, I have wanted to read one of his plays too anyway. Thanks for the idea.. :)

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    2. You're welcome. :) .... if you're planning to give Shaw a try I would recommend starting with Arms and the Man....it's a favourite of mine. :D

      And I have one more name to throw out there...I can't believe I forgot him! -- Christopher Marlowe. He's Shakespeare's contemporary well known for The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Tamberlaine parts one and two. :)

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    3. Actually I've been thinking about Saint Joan; I'm quite curious of how he would put a saint scene on play. But thanks for the suggestion anyway, I'll browse for them to get a better feeling. :)

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  2. I would also suggest some Lope de Vega (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lope_de_Vega) for the list. "The Dog in the Manger" is my favourite! His style is very light and the dialogs are very witty.

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