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Theatre of Cruelty and Comedy

The Greeks invent tragedy. Marlowe and Shakespeare English it. Moliere and Racine French it. Ibsen and Strindberg modernise it. Chekhov and Wilde end the nineteenth century with heartbreak and laughter respectively. Pirandello breaks the stage. Brecht politicises it. O'Neill, Miller, and Williams make it American. Beckett empties it. Ionesco fills it with rhinoceroses. Stoppard makes it clever. Soyinka makes it sacred.

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    Oedipus RexSophocles (-429)
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    AntigoneSophocles (-441)
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    MedeaEuripides (-431)
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    The BacchaeEuripides (-405)
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    LysistrataAristophanes (-411)
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    OresteiaAeschylus (-458)
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    Doctor FaustusChristopher Marlowe (1592)
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    The MisanthropeMolière (1666)
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    King LearWilliam Shakespeare (1606)
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    HamletWilliam Shakespeare (1601)
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    MacbethWilliam Shakespeare (1606)
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    OthelloWilliam Shakespeare (1604)
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    The TempestWilliam Shakespeare (1611)
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    PhèdreJean Racine (1677)
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    Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen (1891)
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    A Doll's HouseHenrik Ibsen (1879)
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    Miss JulieAugust Strindberg (1888)
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    The Cherry OrchardAnton Chekhov (1904)
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    The Importance of Being EarnestOscar Wilde (1895)
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    Six Characters in Search of an AuthorLuigi Pirandello (1921)
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    The Threepenny OperaBertolt Brecht (1928)
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    Long Day's Journey into NightEugene O'Neill (1956)
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    Death of a SalesmanArthur Miller (1949)
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    A Streetcar Named DesireTennessee Williams (1947)
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    A Raisin in the SunLorraine Hansberry (1959)
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    Waiting for GodotSamuel Beckett (1953)
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    EndgameSamuel Beckett (1957)
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    RhinocerosEugène Ionesco (1959)
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    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?Edward Albee (1962)
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    ArcadiaTom Stoppard (1993)
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    Death and the King's HorsemanWole Soyinka (1975)