A list of every script I can remember reading, arranged by time of writing, more or less. Nerdy, I know, exceedingly nerdy.
Greek
Antigone, Sophocles
Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
The Eumenides, Aeschylus
Medea, Euripides
The Frogs, Aristophanes
Roman
Menaechmi, Plautus
Middle Ages
Abhijñānaśākuntalam (or Sacoontala), Kalidasa
Job, Unknown
Pafnutius, Hrosvitha
Commedia
Renaissance
The Servant of Two Masters, Carlo Goldoni
The Dog in the Manger, Lope de Vega
Fuente Ovejuna, Lope de Vega
A Midsummer Night Dream,* William Shakespeare
As You Like It, William Shakespeare
Hamlet,* William Shakespeare
Henry V, William Shakespeare
Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare
King Lear, William Shakespeare
Macbeth,* William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure,* William Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare
Othello,* William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet,* William Shakespeare
The Comedy of Errors, William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
The Merry Wives of Windsor, William Shakespeare
The Taming of the Shrew,* William Shakespeare
The Tempest,* William Shakespeare
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, William Shakespeare
Twelfth Night,* William Shakespeare
Volpone, Ben Johnson
Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlow
Restoration
Tartuffe, Moliere
The Imaginary Invalid, Moliere
The School for Wives, Moliere
The Way of the World, William Congreve
The Rover, Aphra Behn
Early Modern
Woyzeck, Georg Buchner
Miss Julie, August Strindberg
Cyrano de Bergerac, Edmond Rostand
Henry IV, Luigi Pirandello, trans Tom Stoppard
A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen
Ghosts, Henrik Ibsen
An Enemy of the People, Henrik Ibsen
The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen
Modern
The Importance of Being Ernest, Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde
The Playboy of the Western World, John Millington Synge
Riders to the Sea, John Millington Synge
Mrs. Warrens Profession, George Bernard Shaw
Arms and the Man, George Bernard Shaw
Candida, George Bernard Shaw
The Devil’s Disciple, George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman, George Bernard Shaw
Passion, Poison, Petrification, George Bernard Shaw
Cathleen ni Houlihan, William Butler Yeats
Three Sisters, Anton Checkhov
The Cherry Orchard, Anton Checkhov
Mother Courage and Her Children, Bertold Brecht
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Bertold Brecht
The Hairy Ape, Eugene O’Neill
Desire Under the Elms, Eugene O’Neill
Mourning Becomes Electra, Eugene O’Neill
The Iceman Cometh, Eugene O’Neill
Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
In the Zone, Eugene O’Neill
All My Sons,* Arthur Miller
Death of A salesman,* Arthur Miller
The Crucible,* Arthur Miller
A View from the Bridge, Arthur Miller
A Memory of Two Mondays, Arthur Miller
After the Fall, Arthur Miller
A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,* Tennessee Williams
The Glass Menagerie,* Tennessee Williams
Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett
Krap’s Last Tape, Samuel Beckett
Happy Days, Samuel Beckett
Blood Wedding, Federico Garcia Lorca
Blithe Spirit, Noel Coward
Out Town, Thornton Wilder
The Matchmaker, Thornton Wilder
The Good Doctor, Neil Simon
The Odd Couple, Neil Simon
The Odd Couple (female version), Neil Simon
The Gingerbread Lady, Neil Simon
I Ought to Be in Pictures, Neil Simon
The Piano Lesson, August Wilson
Fences, August Wilson
The Birthday Party, Harold Pinter
A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
Inherit the Wind, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee
Arsenic and Old Lace, Joseph Kesselring
You Can’t Take It With You, George S. Kaufman
The Man Who Came To Dinner, George S. Kaufman
The Curious Savage, John Patrick 50
The Woman in Black, Stephen Mallatratt
Post-Modern
A Lion in Winter, James Goldman 66
Foxfire, Susan Coopper, Hume Cronyn
The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail, Robert Edwin Lee, Jerome Lawrence
The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on C. S. Lewis
W;t, Margret Edson
Well, Anna Kron
The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, Suzan-Lori Parks
