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Readings

Texts

Buy at Amazon Worthen, W. B. The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Brief 5th ed. Florence, KY: Thompson Wadsworth, 2007. ISBN: 9781413029192.

Buy at Amazon 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.]

Buy at Amazon 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:

Buy at Amazon Worthen, W. B. The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama. Brief 5th ed. Florence, KY: Thompson Wadsworth, 2007.

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.

WEEK # READINGS
2

Euripides. Medea (431 BCE).
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Buy at Amazon Aristotle. Poetics. New York, NY: Penguin, 1997. ISBN: 9780140446364.

Buy at Amazon Elam, Keir. Excerpt from The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama. London, UK, and New York, NY: Methuen Young Books, 1980. ISBN: 9780416720501.

3

Kan'ami. Matsukaze (14 c.).

Zeami. Kakyō (A Mirror Held to the Flower) (1424).
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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).