ENGL 4793 Genre: Drama

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Links that may be of interest:

Timeline of Greek Drama
Origins of Greek Drama
video: set construction
video: an episode of the making of The Glass Menagerie
Ancient Greek Theatre
Aristotle [From the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Aristophanes
"Women in the Oikos: The Stranger Within"
video: Opening sequence of Trojan Women by Euripides
video: Cross Cultural adaptation of Japanese theatre
video: Jung and Freud: Unpacking Dream Symbols
video: Freud's Home Movies
video: Plato and Jung's dialectic (no kidding)
video: The Art of Stanley Kubrick
video: Theatre Arts and Political Activism
video: Mike Gets Possessed Again

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Current Required Reading List

Aristotle. Poetics.
Aristophanes. Lysistrata.
Bruce Jay Friedman. Steambath. (photocopies)
Stanley Kubrick. Dr. Strangelove.
William Shakespeare. Troilus and Cressida
Tennessee Williams. A Streetcar Named Desire.

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Podcasts
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Saussure and Structuralism (6/26/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Foucault (6/28/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Gender/Sex Roles (7/3/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Feminism Part One of two (7/5/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Feminism Part Two of two (7/6/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Freud Part One of two (7/9/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Freud Part two of two ( 7/10/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Jung Part one of two (7/11/6) (direct link to file)
Genre: Drama: Jung Part two of two (7/13/6) (direct link to file)

Composition Primer

Literature/Literary Crit

Reading for Understanding
A glossary of literary terms
Dictionary of Terms and Tropes.
(with thanks to the University of Kentucky's Classics Department)
Tropes and rhetorical devices
Using your computer as a tool for literary analysis
Starting point for Lit research
Bibliomania Reference works on literature and language, fiction, non-fiction, poetry. Searchable.
The Yahoo journal list
Some are online and some just advertise online.

An Introduction to Literary Criticism
Short articles on various critics, from Plato to Derrida.

My essays for Arenafan (click here)

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