A Ranking of the Greatest Plays - Daniel S. Burt

Since lists are still on my mind, here is Daniel S. Burt’s The Drama 100: A Ranking of the Greatest Plays of All Time.

Daniel S. Burt is the author of several books, including The Literary 100, The Novel 100, The Chronology of American Literature, and The Biography Book. Disagreements are encouraged by the author

One amazon.com reviewer - a "Tony Fleming" - recommends The Drama 100 because it can introduce you to dramas you may not know about and oh yeah - "you can sound knowledgeable about them" especially in trivia games.

1) King Lear 2) Oedipus the King 3) Hamlet 4) Oresteia 5) Macbeth 6) Long Day’s Journey into Night 7) Othello 8) Waiting for Godot 9) Medea 10) Twelfth Night 11) A Doll’s House 12) The Cherry Orchard 13) Bacchae 14) The Importance of Being Earnest 15) Antigone 16) Tartuffe 17) Antony and Cleopatra 18) Mother Courage and Her Children 19) Lysistrata 20) Doctor Faustus 21) Death of a Salesman 22) Woyzeck 23) Volpone, Or the Fox 24) Henry IV 25) The Way of the World 26) A Streetcar Named Desire 27) The Tempest 28) Major Barbara 29) Endgame 30) Sakuntala 31) Miss Julie 32) The Peony Pavilion 33) The Misanthrope 34) Three Sisters 35) Life Is a Dream 36) Hedda Gabler 37) The School for Scandal 38) The Playboy of the Western World 39) The Iceman Cometh 40) The Love Suicides at Sonezaki 41) Everyman 42) Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes 43) A Midsummer Night’s Dream 44) Six Characters In Search Of an Author 45) Man and Superman 46) Phèdre 47) Romeo and Juliet 48) Look Back In Anger 49) The Homecoming 50) Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

51) The Plough and the Stars 52) The Alchemist 53) Trojan Women 54) Saint Joan 55) Blood Wedding 56) The Marriage of Figaro 57) The Glass Menagerie 58) The Good Person of Setzuan 59) She Stoops To Conquer 60) Murder in the Cathedral 61) The Bald Soprano 62) The Ghost Sonata 63) The Inspector General 64) The Crucible 65) Marat/Sade 66) Translations 67) The Beggar’s Opera 68) Amphitryon 69) No Exit 70) A Raisin in the Sun 71) Our Town 72) The Country Wife 73) Travesties 74) The Lower Depths 75) Private Lives 76) Fool for Love 77) A Flea in Her Ear 78) Glengarry Glen Ross 79) King Ubu 80) Cloud Nine 81) At the Hawk’s Well 82) Orpheus 83) “Master Harold” . . . And the Boys 84) The Well-Curb 85) The Other Shore 86) The Little Foxes 87) Fences 88) The Dybbuk 89) The Visit 90) The Weavers 91) Le Cid 92) The Rover 93) Awake and Sing! 94) The Brothers 95) The Balcony 96) Accidental Death of an Anarchist 97) The Hostage 98) The Heidi Chronicles 99) The King’s The Best Magistrate 100) Peter Pan