"Oedipus Rex", Sophocles - English version by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerais;
"Noah and His Sons", Anonymous - edited by Oscar G. Brockett;
"Hamlet, Prince of Denmark", William Shakespeare;
"Tartuffe by Moliere", Jean-Baptiste Poquelin - translated into English by Richard Wilbur;
"The Servant of Two Masters", Carlo Goldoni - English version by Edward J. Dent;
"A Doll's House", Henrik Ibsen - translated by William Archer (with emendations by Oscar G. Brockett);
"The Hairy Ape", Eugene O'Neill; "The Good Woman of Setzuan", Bertolt Brecht - revised English version by Eric Bentley;
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Tennessee Williams; "Happy Days", Samuel Beckett;
"Roosters", Milcha Sanchez-Scott; "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom", August Wilson;
"How I Learned to Drive", Paula Vogel; "The Shrine in the Fields", Zeami;
"The Strong Breed", Wole Soyinka.
Oscar G. Brockett enjoys an international reputation as a theatre historian. A Distinguished Scholar honoree of the American Society of Theatre Research, he has received career achievement awards from: the Association for Theatre in Higher Education; the United States Institute for Theatre Technology; and is a recipient of the Robert Lewis Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Theatre Research.
After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University, he taught at several major American universities and at the University of Bristol in England. He has also served as President of the American Theatre Association, Dean of the College of Fine Arts at University of Texas, Editor of Theatre Journal, and on the editorial board of the Asian Theatre Journal. He held the prestigious University of Texas Z.T. Scott Family Chair in Drama and was the Director of the Center for Dramatic and Performance Studies for several years.
Dr. Brockett is the author of many articles in leading journals and has written several books, including History of the Theatre and The Essential Theatre. He is currently a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, and the Dean of the Fellows of the American Theatre.
