2012-13 Drama Book List
Reading list for the 2010-2011 MFA comprehensive exam in Playwriting / Drama
MODERN AND COMTEMPORARY PLAYS
Ibsen: The Master Builder, Hedda Gabler
Chekov: The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull
Genet: The Balcony
Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest
Shaw: Major Barbara
O'Neill: Long Day's Journey into Night, The Iceman Cometh
Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie
Miller. Death of a Salesman, The Crucible
Pinter: Homecoming
Beckett: Waiting for Godot
Ionesco: The Bald Soprano, Shepard: The Curse of the Starving Class, Fool for Love
Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
Albee: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Norman: ‘Night, Mother
Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
David Mamet: Glengarry Glen Ross
Tony Kushner: Angels in America
GREEK & ROMAN PLAYS
Sophocles: Oedipus series
Aristophanes: Lysistrata
Seneca: Medea
ELIZABETHAN PLAYS
Shakespeare: Hamlet, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Midsummer Night’s
Dream
Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
CRITICAL TEXTS
Francis Fergusson: The Idea of Theatre
Albert Bermel: Contradictory Characters
Eric Bentley: The Life of the Drama
Peter Brook: The Empty Space
FICTION
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Edith Warton: The House of Mirth
William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man is Hard to Find
Toni Morrison: Beloved
Raymond Carver: Cathedral
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
James Joyce: Dubliners
Virginia Woolf: To The Lighthouse
Ian McEwan: Atonement
Gustave Flaubert: Madame Bovary
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Manuel Puig: Kiss of the Spider Woman
Gabriel Garcia-Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude
POETRY & DRAMATIC WRITING
Auden: The English Auden, Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writing
Elizabeth Bishop: The Complete Poems (http://www.poemhunter.com/elizabeth-bishop)
Derek Walcott: Omeros
Federico Garcia Lorca: The Poet in New York
