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Question: What are some good plays to read!? other than the ones by shakespear!?
i need ideas for plays to get monologues out of, but they cant be shakespear or any other plays in older languages!.Www@QuestionHome@Com


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
The Winslow Boy by Terence Rattigan

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde (or, as you've been told, The Importance of Being Earnest, also by Wilde)

A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams (or The Glass Menagerie)

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw

The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

Our Town by Thornton Wilder

For more, you can check Wikipedia's list http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/List_of_pla!.!.!. of playwrights, click on their names and you'll get a list of their plays!.

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Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet!.
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
Fences by August Wilson
The Birthday Party and The Homecoming by Harold Pinter
A Streetcr Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
The Seven Year Itch by George Axelrod
The Man Who Came to Dinner by George S!. Kaurmann and Moss Hart
Raisin in the Sun by Larraine HansberryWww@QuestionHome@Com

Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/Death_of_a_!.!.!.


The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
http://en!.wikipedia!.org/wiki/The_Glass_M!.!.!.


*The Glass Menagerie is my favoriteWww@QuestionHome@Com

1) "David and Lisa"
2) "Tea and Sympathy"
3) "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum"
4) "Anna and the King of Siam"
5) "A Raisin in the Sun"
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I'll just add Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening!.

There'll also comedies by MoliƩre and plays such as Faust by Goethe!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, After Magritte!.!.!.the list goes on, but the first one is probably the place to look for monologues!.!.!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

My 2 favorites are
"The Importance of Being Ernest," Oscar Wilde
"Don Juan in Hell," G!. B!. ShawWww@QuestionHome@Com

Just about anything by Tennessee Williams!. His plays, at times, read like novels!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

My husband is a big Eric Overmyer fan!. In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe, especially!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

the importance of being earnest by oscar wilde
the great gatsby
damn yankees
black coffee
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Death of a Salesman is really good!.Www@QuestionHome@Com