Dramatic Anthologies

Twelve Plays for Theatre

Twelve representative plays from the Greeks to the present

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
Niccolò Machiavelli, Clizia
William Shakespeare, Hamlet
Molière, The Misanthrope
Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
Henrik Ibsen, A Doll’s House
Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross
Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life…
August Wilson, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone
David Henry Hwang, M. Butterfly

"The vastness and richness of theater enveloped me as I read this book. I savored the newly commissioned Hamlet, pondered George Bernard Shaw's essay at the beginning of Major Barbara, and contemplated the presence of August Wilson as an Afro-American writer…. Something of the whole world is in this book." --Curriculum Review

Eight Plays for Theatre

Eight representative plays from the Greeks to the present, six of which are used as historical models in Cohen’s Theatre

Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannos
Anonymous, The Plaie Called Corpus Christi: The Beginnings
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), The Bourgeois Gentleman
August Strindberg, Miss Julie
Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
Samuel Beckett, Happy Days
Sam Shepard, Fool for Love