DRAMA 24 READING LIST

At least one copy of each play will be placed on reserve in the Library, but you are encouraged to find other copies: on the internet, Humboldt County Library and used bookstores. A full set of plays will be available for purchase at the College of the Redwoods Bookstore.

Take notes as you read the plays. Here some questions to focus your attention: How is the dramatic action unified? Are there cause and effect relationships of incidents? What are the given circumstances of time, place, character status etc.? How is this expressed?

Plot: When is the story set in motion (when is the "point of attack")? What is the inciting incident? What is the major conflict, dramatic question or unifying theme? How are any subplots related to the main plot? What is the dominant tone of the play?

Characterization: What are the biological, psychological, social and moral characteristics of the character based on that they say, what they do and what is said about them? What is the style of their language? How is it different from everyday language? What elements of "spectacle" are called for in the script? What kind of theatrical space was it written for?

THE POETICS by Aristotle
http://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/poetics.html

ANTIGONE by Sophocles
http://classics.mit.edu//Sophocles/antigone.html

http://www.eserver.org/drama/sophocles/antigone.txt

LYSISTRATA by Aristophanes
http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/a/a7/lysistra.html

THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF DOCTOR FAUSTUS by Christopher Marlowe
http://www.bralyn.net/etext/literature/christopher.marlowe/drfst10a.txt

Eight Famous Elizabethan Plays
Drama of the English Renaissance
Elizabethan Plays
The Genius of the Early English Theatre

HAMLET by William Shakespeare
http://www.english.pomona.edu/joyce/Joyce/site/stupaps/hamlet.htm

TARTUFFE by Moliere
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/gutenberg/etext00/trtff10.txt

Moliere, the Misanthrope and Tartuffe
Eight Plays by Moliere

A DOLL’S HOUSE by Henrik Ibsen
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~spires/Concord/dollfull.html

http://www.triton.cc.il.us/undergrad_ctr/files/dollshse.html
Four Major Plays by Ibsen
Ibsen, the Complete Major Prose Plays
Six Plays by Henrik Ibsen

THE SEAGULL by Anton Checkov
http://www.drama21c.net/text/seagull.htm

Best Plays by Checkov
Checkov Plays
 

THE ADDING MACHINE by Elmer Rice
Three plays [by] Elmer Rice. PS3535.I224 T48

HAPPY DAYS; by Tom Stoppard
College of the Redwoods General Book Collection PR6003.E282 H3

CLOUD NINE by Caryl Churchill
Look in modern anthologies, HSU Library or play packet.