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Major Texts of Drama in English

About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

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British Drama: From Elizabethan to Victorian

  3. William Shakespeare- King Lear **
  4. William Shakespeare- Hamlet
  6. William Shakespeare- Midsummer
  12. Ben Jonson- Epicoene
  13. Thomas Middleton- The Revenger’s Tragedy
  15. John Webster – The Duchess of Malfi (1612 – ’13)

British Drama: Modern & Postmodern

  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
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