Dramas

Use our teaching resources with your class in concert with reading great dramatic works and open windows into exciting new worlds for students. As students develop practical reading, writing, and interpretation skills, they build their appreciation for a range of dramatic genres and deepen students’ understanding of human nature.

Teacher Resources

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A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen

This 1879 drama initiated a new chapter in women’s history. A Doll's House demonstrates the stifling effects of patriarchal society in the context of what seems to be a happy family. Compressed time and... more

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Oedipus the King by Sophocles

This tragedy from the Golden Age of Greece tells the ancient story of Oedipus and demonstrates the damaging consequences of hubris. Sophocles transformed a tale of individual woe into an archetypal chronicle... more

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All My Sons by Arthur Miller

The action of All My Sons takes place in less than a twenty-four hour period. The setting is the Midwestern backyard of Joe Keller in the 1940s. Complex characters illustrate Arthur Miller’s mixed feelings... more

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Antigone by Sophocles

Antigone is a fifth-century b.c. Greek tragedy that is reflective of the ancient Greek belief in oracles and curses. It teaches that all choices have consequences and that laws must be just and reasonable.... more

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The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Crucible is a timeless play that treats Salem witch hunts of 1692 as an analogy to McCarthy hearings of 1953. Beyond its historical interest, it emphasizes personal self-sacrifice for the good of... more

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Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Edmond Rostand’s drama Cyrano de Bergerac is a combination of comedy, heroism, romance, and poetry with love as a key theme. The action is set in the seventeenth-century France of Louis XIII and XIV.... more

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Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller

In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller has created a contemporary tragic hero and theme. Willy Loman, derived from Miller’s observations of human behavior of known people, possesses an image of himself... more

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Equus by Peter Shaffer

Winner of the 1974 Tony award, Peter Shaffer’s Equus dramatizes psychologist Martin Dysart’s case of a young boy, Alan, who has blinded six horses in late twentieth-century England. The play stresses... more

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The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams

This play is a dramatic study of conflicting motivations and tortured memories. Tennessee Williams called The Glass Menagerie a “memory play.” Williams aptly titled it for the fragile world in which his... more

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The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest is a three-act comedy written in 1894 which reveals the author’s superior command of language, wit, and mocking of Victorian pretensions and unforgettable epigrams. It... more

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Inherit the Wind by Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee

This courtroom drama is set in a small town and emphasizes timeless and universal themes of freedom of speech and freedom of individual religious beliefs. It focuses on the validity of a Tennessee law... more

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Major Barbara/Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw

This drama is set in late nineteenth-century Victorian England. Major Barbara is one of George Bernard Shaw’s “discussion” plays, a style of playwriting that is achieved through a series of conversations.... more

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A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

A Man for All Seasons is a historical drama based on the conflict between King Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More. The play emphasizes the commitment to conscience as opposed to acceptance and adaptation... more

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"MASTER HAROLD". . . and the boys/Fences by Athol Fugard/August Wilson

A political allegory, “MASTER HAROLD” . . . and the boys deals with family, race, society, government, and art. Set the fifties in South Africa, the drama exposes difficult relationships that exist among... more

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The Miracle Worker by William Gibson

The Miracle Worker tells the story of Helen Keller, who as a child was stricken by a mysterious fever that left her both deaf and blind, and her teacher, who worked to free Helen from a lifetime in a... more

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Murder in the Cathedral/Galileo by T. S. Eliot/Bertolt Brecht

The drama portrays conflicts in the mind of Thomas Becket as he awaits the violent end of his relationship with Henry II (1170). Murder in the Cathedral is a play T. S. Eliot wrote specifically for Canterbury... more

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The Oresteia by Aeschylus

The Oresteia is a trilogy that dramatizes the reckoning of the curse fixed upon the mythical House of Atreus. The story includes love and hatred, betrayal and loyalty, revenge and justice, and virtue... more

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Our Town by Thornton Wilder

Our Town captures with simple elegance the routine of the inhabitants of a small New England village, focusing with particular poignancy on the love and courtship of Emily Webb and George Gibbs. In style,... more

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The Piano Lesson by August Wilson

Winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best New Play in 1990 and Pulitzer Prize, The Piano Lesson is a story of living with the ghosts of one’s past. It illuminates the dilemma of African... more

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Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw took the premise of the Pygmalion myth and turned it into a play. The central theme of Pygmalion is that a Cockney flower girl will behave like a lady if she is treated like one and... more

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