British Drama

• Contemporary Drama
• Modern Drama
• Victorian Drama
• Romantic Drama
• Neo-Classical / Augustan Drama
• Restoration Drama
• Puritan Period Drama
• Caroline Drama
• Jacobean Drama
• Elizabethan Drama
• Age of Revival Drama
• Chaucerian Drama
• Pre-Chaucerian / Anglo Norman Drama
• Old English Drama

World Literature and Drama

• European Drama
• American Drama
• Indian Drama
• Post Colonial Drama

Major Texts

British Drama: From Elizabethan to Victorian

1. Christopher Marlowe- Doctor Faustus **
2. William Shakespeare- Macbeth
3. William Shakespeare- King Lear **
4. William Shakespeare- Hamlet
5. William Shakespeare- Othello
6. William Shakespeare- Midsummer
7. William Shakespeare – Twelfth Night, or What You Will (1601)
8. William Shakespeare- Tempest
9. Ben Jonson- Volpone **
10. Ben Jonson- The Alchemist **
11. Ben Jonson- Every Man in His Humour **
12. Ben Jonson- Epicoene
13. Thomas Middleton- The Revenger’s Tragedy
14. John Webster- The White Devil
15. John Webster – The Duchess of Malfi (1612 – ’13)

British Drama: Modern & Postmodern

1. William Congreve- The Way of the World **
2. Aphra Behn- The Rover
3. John Gay- The Beggar’s Opera
4. Richard Brinsley Sheridan- The School of Scandal
5. Oliver Goldsmith- She Stoops to Conquer
6. Oscar Wilde- Lady Windermere’s Fan
7. Oscar Wilde- A Woman of No Importance
8. George Bernard Shaw- Arms and the Man
9. George Bernard Shaw- Pygmalion
10. T.S. Eliot- The Cocktail Party
11. T.S. Eliot- Murder in Cathedral
12. Edward Bond- Lear
13. John Millington Synge- Riders of the Sea
14. Harold Pinter- Birthday Party
15. Harold Pinter- Homecoming
16. Harold Pinter- The Caretaker
17. Samuel Beckett- Waiting for Godot
18. Tom Stoppard- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
19. John Osborne- Look Back in Anger
20. Terrace Rattigan- The Browing Version
21. Caryl Churchill- Top Girls

American Drama

1. Tennessee Williams’s- The Glass Menagerie
2. Tennessee Williams’s- A Streetcar Named Desire
3. Arthur Miller’s- All My Sons
4. Arthur Miller’s- Death of a Salesman
5. Eugene O’Neill- Long Day’s Journey into Night
6. Eugene O’Neill- The Emperor Jones
7. Edward Albee- Who’s Afraid of Virgina Wolf
8. Lorraine Hansberry- A Raisin in the Sun
9. August Wilson’s- Fences
10. August Wilson’s- Piano Lesson

Post Colonial Drama

Wole Soyinka- Death and the Kings Horsemen

Derek Walcott’s- Dream on Monkey Mountain

European Drama

1. Sophocles- Oedipus Rex
2. Eugène Ionesco- Rhinoceros
3. Euripides- The Bacchae
4. Luigi Pirandello- Six Characters in Search of an Author
5. Anton Chekhov- The Cherry Orchard
6. Bertolt Brecht- Mother Courage and Her Children
7. Eugène Ionesco- The Chairs
8. Henric Ibsen- Ghosts
9. Albert Camus- The Plague
10. Henrik Ibsen- A Doll’s House

Indian Drama

1. Vijay Tendulkar- Silence! The Court is in the Session
2. Mahesh Dattani- Dance Like A Man
3. Girish Karnad- Hayavadana

Terminologies Related to Drama