This list contains titles of plays students are likely to encounter during their theatre and cinema studies. It is compiled from a list of those most often incorporated into various classes across the department’s curriculum. Though not exhaustive, it does include a wide range of playwrights, genres, historical time periods and cultural influences. It is provided here as a springboard for the necessary habit of reading plays. Serious students of theatre and cinema should be reading at least one play every couple of weeks. As a part of this practice it is helpful to document the reading through the use of a journal or index card file. This record-keeping can provide a very useful resource for the student’s future studies or work. A solid knowledge of the canon of dramatic literature is an invaluable foundation for the development of any theatre and cinema artist

The Rover by Aphra Behn
Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht
Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderon
The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov
Master Harold...and the Boys by Athol Fugard
Dulcitius by Hrosvitha
Shakuntala by Kalidasa
Matsukaze by Kanami Kiyotsugu
All My Sons by Arthur Miller
The Crucible by Arthur Miller
The Misanthrope by Moliere
Tartuffe by Moliere
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello
The Menaechmus by Brothers Plautus
No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Dentist by Flaminio Scala
Hamlet by William Shakespeare
Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw
Antigone by Sophocles
Oedipus the King by Sophocles
Loa to the Divine Narcissus by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
Death and the King's Horseman by Wole Soyinka
Miss Julie by August Strindberg
On Golden Pond by Ernest Thompson
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams
Summer and Smoke by Tennessee Williams
Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
Talley's Folly by Lanford Wilson