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August Wilson edition

A thread for the discussion of theater, both as written and as performed.

>What are the essential plays?
While this website is usually seen as a meme, it does contain a good list of the most acclaimed plays of all time.
https://www.scaruffi.com/fiction/bestth.html

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And here are the charts. Part one...

>> No.17401222

>>17401217
Not literature

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... and part two.

>>17401222
How so? (And checked.)

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>>17401217
Following for interest.

>>17401222
You are absolutely, utterly, thoroughly retarded if you unironically believe that.

>> No.17401965

>>17401232
welcome to /lit/

>> No.17402000

>>17401225
>>17401221
I disagree about Yeats being there, I dont think his skill as a playwright is that impressive, I think there's others who are greater. He is my favourite poet of all time though, soothes my soul.

Also I think Peter Handke deserves a spot in contemporary (or 20th century, idk where he should be I suck at plays lol, but I enjoyed some of his plays a lot)

>> No.17402389

I just finished The Piano Lesson. Very intriguing play. It is almost Brechtian in that it presents significant moral questions that it never even attempts to answer, as well as in the play's use of music.