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A hundred plays I particularly love:

Late 20C: The Invention of Love, After Magritte; Krapp's Last Tape, Human Wishes; Old Times; The Duck Variations

Early 20C: Blood Wedding, Yerma; The Difficult Man, The Tower, The Mine at Falun, The Little Theater of the World; Spring Awakening; Back to Methuselah, Pen Poison & Petrification, Man and Superman; Long Day's Journey Into Night; Separate Tables; The Glass Menagerie; Brief Encounter; (Valery's) Faust; Bowl Cat & Broomstick; At the Hawk's Well; Masque of Mercy

Late 19C: St. John's Night, Love's Comedy, Emperor and Galilean, Peer Gynt, Brand, Lady from the Sea, John Gabriel Borkman, Master Builder, When We Dead Awaken; Trial by Jury, Pirates of Penzance, Engaged; The Cherry Orchard; Dance of Death, To Damascus, Ghost Sonata, The Father, Easter; A Month in the Country; Importance of Being Earnest, A Woman of No Importance; Atalanta in Calydon; The Power of Darkness

Early 19C: Faust, Iphigenia, Goetz von Berlichingen, Egmont; Danton's Death, Leonce and Lena; Lorenzaccio, Fantasio; The Robbers, Wallenstein, Don Carlos; The Broken Pitcher; The Borderers; Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, Hellas; Cain, Manfred; Death's Jest-Book, The Bride's Tragedy

Renaissance to 1800: Othello, Love's Labor's Lost, A Winter's Tale, Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet; A King and No King, The Faithful Shepherdess, The Woman-Hater; Love for Love, The Double-Dealer, The Way of the World; Don Juan, The Hypochondriac; The Liar; Andromache, Phaedra; The Critic, The Rivals; Tamburlaine, The Jew of Malta; Comus, Samson Agonistes; The Revenger's Tragedy; The Broken Heart; Three Hours After Marriage, The What-d'ye-Call-It; Box and Cox; The False Confessions, The Dispute

Pre-Renaissance: Philoctetes, Electra; The Birds

Dame!

Date: 2005-07-06 10:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nightspore.livejournal.com
Have I read a hundred plays? I must have, sure, I guess. Still....

Date: 2005-07-06 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] proximoception.livejournal.com
Oddly I didn't have to pad this one, though about half are on for fun not profundity.

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