THEA 371 / Play Analysis Reading List / Fall 2006

 Play Reading List:

 Medea                                                       pg.                   Due Aug. 31

Matsukaze                                                 pg.                Due Aug. 31

Everyman                                                  pg.                 Due Aug. 31

Hamlet                                             pg.                 Due Sept. 7

Tartuffe                                                       pg.                Due Sept. 14

A Dolls House                                           pg.                 Due Sept. 21

The Cherry Orchard                                  pg.                 Due Sept. 21

Major Barbara                                            pg.                 Due Sept. 28

Mother Courage                                         pg.                Due Sept. 28

Endgame                                                    pg.                 Due Oct.    5

Glass Menagerie                                       pg.                 Due Oct.  12

Death of a Salesman                                pg.                   Due Oct. 19

Cloud Nine                                                  pg.                Due Oct.  26

Angels in America                                      pg.             Due Oct. 31

Information for Foreigners                          pg.                Due Nov.   9

Master Harold & The Boys                 pg.                Due Nov. 16

Harvest      pg.                 Due Nov. 30

Critical Reading List:

 Introduction: Drama, Theatre & Culture         pg.         Due Aug. 24

Aristotle, The Poetics                                        pg.          Due Aug.  29

Zeami Motokiyo, Mirror Held to the Flower      pg.       Due Aug. 29

Sir Phillip Sidney, Apology for Poetry               pg.                Due Sept. 5

John Dryden, Criticism in Tragedy                    pg.        Due Sept. 12

Friedrich Nietzsche, Birth of Tragedy                pg.       Due Sept. 19

Constantin Stanislavsky, Direction / Acting      pg.        Due Sept. 19

Emile Zola, Naturalism                                        pg.        Due Sept. 26

Bertolt Brecht, Theatre of Instruction                  pg.        Due Sept. 26

Antonin Artaud, Theatre and its Double             pg.        Due Sept. 26

August Boal, Theatre of the Oppressed                pg.       Due Oct. 3

Arthur Miller, Tragedy / Common Man                pg.        Due Oct.  17

Baraka / Jones, The Revolutionary Theatre    pg.      Due Oct 17

Frantz Fanon, Fact of Blackness                         pg.       Due Nov.   7

Supplimental Reading List:

Aside: Roman Drama & Theatre        pg.     Due: Aug. 29

Aside: Sanskrit Drama & Theatre        pg.     Due: Aug. 29

Aside: The Jacobean Masque        pg.     Due: Sept. 5

Aside: The Commedia Dell' Arte        pg.     Sept. 12

Aside: Melodrama        pg.     Sept. 19

Aside: The Federal Theatre Project        pg.     Oct. 5

Aside: Performance Art        pg.    Due Oct 24

Aside: Intercultural Performance        pg.     Nov 14