Texts
Worthen, W. B. The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Brief 5th ed. Florence, KY: Thompson Wadsworth, 2007. ISBN: 9781413029192.
Elam, Keir. The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. London, UK, and New York, NY: Methuen young books, 1980. ISBN: 9780416720501. [Preview a version of this book in Google Books.]
Concise Oxford English Dictionary. 11th revised ed. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008 (Hardcover). ISBN: 9780199548415.
The plays shown in the readings list are from the text:
Worthen, W. B. The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Brief 5th ed. Florence, KY: Thompson Wadsworth, 2007. ISBN: 9781413029192.
The print versions of the plays listed in the table can be found in the textbook ?Worthen, W. B. The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Brief 5th ed. Florence, KY: Thompson Wadsworth, 2007. ISBN: 9781413029192.?. The links provided at the end of the plays are from alternate sources.
Course readings. | WEEK # | READINGS |
| 2 | Euripides. Medea (431 BCE). [Preview a version of this book in Google Books.] Aristotle. Poetics. New York, NY: Penguin, 1997. ISBN: 9780140446364. Elam, Keir. Excerpt from The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. London, UK, and New York, NY: Methuen Young Books, 1980. ISBN: 9780416720501.
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| 3 | Kan'ami. Matsukaze (14 c.). Zeami. Kakyō (A Mirror Held to the Flower) (1424). [Preview a version of this book in Google Books.] |
| 4 | Izumo, Takeda. Chushingura: The Forty-Seven Samurai (18c.). |
| 5 | Dorlandus, Petrus. Everyman (1495). |
| 6 | Calderón de la Barca, Pedro. Life is a Dream (1636). Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Loa to the Divine Narcissus (1687). |
| 7 | Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). |
| 8 | Chekhov, Anton. The Cherry Orchard (1904). |
| 9 | Shaw, Bernard. Major Barbara (1905). |
| 10 | Brecht, Bertolt. Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction (1957). Artaud, Antonin. The Theater and Its Double (1938). Baraka, Amiri. The Revolutionary Theatre (1965). |
| 11 | Glaspell, Susan. Trifles (1916). |
| 12 | Chuchill, Caryl. Cloud Nine (1980). |
| 13 | Kane, Sarah. Blasted (1995). |