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[Anonymous No.18803561]

What are the best plays not written by Shakespeare?

[Anonymous No.18803580]

Goethe

[Anonymous No.18803586]

>>18803561
death of a salesman

[Anonymous No.18803594]

>>18803561
Racine

[Anonymous No.18804599]

>>18803561
I liked Aristophanes' comedies a lot, particularly Birds and Assembly-Women.

[Anonymous No.18804618]

>>18803561
Anon Shakespeare is a job title. That’s like asking “are there books not written by authors?”

[Anonymous No.18804889]

>>18803561
A Taste of Honey

[Anonymous No.18804899]

sup nigga

[Anonymous No.18804929]

The Orestaia. The peak of Greek drama. Also a reminder of why revenge is a pointless downward spiral.

[Anonymous No.18804951]

sup nigga

[Anonymous No.18805126]

>>18804929
Penis very close to mother face

[Anonymous No.18805157]

>>18803561
What are the best plays WRITTEN by Shakespeare?
comfy answers only

[Anonymous No.18805184]

>>18803561
The Tragedy of Man

[Anonymous No.18805189]

>>18805157
Are you into historical fiction? Check out his Rome plays. An historical order would be Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra. I'm not sure about Titus Andronicus, but it is probably before Julius Caesar.

[Anonymous No.18805196]

>>18805157
The Tempest

[Anonymous No.18805203]

>>18805189
The story of Titus Andronicus is fictional, not historical, unlike Shakespeare's other Roman plays, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus, all of which are based on real historical events and people. Even the time in which Titus is set may not be based on a real historical period. According to the prose version of the play (see below), the events are "set in the time of Theodosius", who ruled from 379 to 395. On the other hand, the general setting appears to be what Clifford Huffman describes as "late-Imperial Christian Rome", possibly during the reign of Justinian I (527–565).[4] Also favouring a later date, Grace Starry West argues, "the Rome of Titus Andronicus is Rome after Brutus, after Caesar, and after Ovid. We know it is a later Rome because the emperor is routinely called Caesar; because the characters are constantly alluding to Tarquin, Lucretia, and Brutus, suggesting that they learned about Brutus' new founding of Rome from the same literary sources we do, Livy and Plutarch."[5] Others are less certain of a specific setting, however. For example, Jonathan Bate has pointed out that the play begins with Titus returning from a successful ten-year campaign against the Goths, as if at the height of the Roman Empire, but ends with Goths invading Rome, as if at its death.[6] Similarly, T. J. B. Spencer argues that "the play does not assume a political situation known to Roman history; it is, rather a summary of Roman politics. It is not so much that any particular set of political institutions is assumed in Titus, but rather that it includes all the political institutions that Rome ever had."[7]

I'm wrong, it is after Caesar. But it doesn't seem that clear, I was a bit confused because it starts with this return from a military campaign, but this seems right.

[Anonymous No.18805250]

>>18803561
I'm glad you asked.

After Shakespeare, read Ibsen.

If you want still more plays, you can start with the Italians:
>The Mandrake by Niccolo Machiavelli
>Ruzzante Returns From the Wars by Angelo Beolco
>The Three Cuckolds by anonymous
>The Mistress of the Inn; The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Gordoni
>The King Stag by Carlo Gozzi

Then continue with the Germans (pic related):
>Faust; Egmont by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
>Don Carlos; Mary Stuart by Friedrich Schiller
>Penthesilea; The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist

And the Spanish:
>Celestina by Fernando de Rojas
>Fuente Ovejuna by Lope de Vega
>The Trickster of Seville by Tirso de Molina
>Life Is a Dream; Love After Death; The Wonder-Working Magician by Calderon de la Barca
>The Siege of Numantia by Miguel de Cervantes

Finish with the French:
>The Cid by Corneille
>Tartuffe; The Misanthrope by Moliere
>Phaedra by Racine
>Turcaret by Lesage
>The False Confession by Marivaux
>Figaro's Marriage by Beaumarchais

I got almost all the plays on these lists from the series in pic related, which I haven't read but plan to. I will welcome further suggestions by any other anon

[Anonymous No.18805255]

>>18805250
Forgot pic

[Anonymous No.18805259]

>>18805250
>>Life Is a Dream; Love After Death; The Wonder-Working Magician by Calderon de la Barca
Do you know of a good translation of Calderon’s works?

[Anonymous No.18805264]

>>18805126
That's Greek pottery for you. Dicks everywhere. Look, here's Achilles and Hector letting it all hang out.

[Anonymous No.18805307]

>>18805259
Yes, you can use the translations in the Classic Theatre edition or you can use Honig's Six Plays. The Honig edition has a different selection of plays but is reportedly as enjoyable.

[Anonymous No.18805317]

>>18803561
Brecht, Weiss, Fo.
Measures taken, Marat/Sade, Accidental death of an anarchist.

[Anonymous No.18805328]

Oedipus Rex
Glass Menagerie
Long Day's Journey Into Night, the Irish one, not the roastie one