Find Drama for Students articles and WSA Library books with plays from the
French and Russian playwrights listed below. Also see:
Digital Theatre Plus - films of leading theatre productions
Drama Online - films of National Theatre productions
Writers with plays in the WSA library are marked with:
Jean Anouilh ( 1910 - 1987 )
Antonin Artaud ( 1896 - 1948 )
Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais ( 1732 - 1799 )
Anton Chekhov ( 1860 - 1904 )
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 )
Pierre Corneille ( 1606 - 1684 )
Marguerite Duras ( 1914 - 1996 )
Jean Genet ( 1910 - 1986 )
Jean Giraudoux ( 1882 - 1944 )
Nikolai Gogol ( 1809 - 1852 )
Maxim Gorki ( 1868 - 1936 )
Eugène Ionesco ( 1912 - 1994 )
Alfred Jarry ( 1873 - 1907 )
Molière ( 1622 - 1673 )
Jean Racine ( 1639 - 1699 )
Yasmina Reza ( 1959 - )
Edmond Rostand ( 1868 - 1918 )
Jean-Paul Sartre ( 1905 - 1980 )
Ivan Turgenev ( 1818 - 1883 )
Includes 'The Bald Soprano' by Eugène Ionesco: In this archetypical absurdist tale Ionesco throws together a cast of characters including the quintessential British middle-class family the Smiths, their guests the Martins, their maid Mary, and a fire chief determined to extinguish all fires — including their hearths.
Includes 'The Imaginary Invalid' by Molière: Hypochondriac Argan relies on the family's faithful servant, Toinette, to solve problems in his house after his daughter falls in love with a man who is not suitable for her and his doctors become more concerned with making money off of him than curing his illnesses.
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