The Craft of the Playwright II

Primary Texts: The Goat or Who is Sylvia?, Albee, Edward Oedipus Rex, , various editions Medea & Trojan Women, , various editions Thebans, Liz Lochead King Lear, Hamlet, Coriolanus, Shakespeare, various editions Death of a Salesman, Miller, Arthur. Heritage, McCartney, Nicola. Faber & Faber, 2010 Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics), Aristophanes and Alan H. Sommerstein, Penguin Classic 2003 Volpone, Ben Johnson The Bald Primadonna, Eugene Ionesco The Collected Plays of Neil Simon: Vol 1, Neil Simon, G P Putnam's Sons; Reprint edition (30 Nov 1986) Neilson Plays: 2 Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!, The Lying Kind, The Wonderful World of Dissocia, Realism (Contemporary Dramatists), Anthony Neilson Methuen 2008 The Government Inspector, Nickolai Gogol The American Pilot, David Greig Translations by Brian Friel Blackwatch, Gregory Burke Six Pack: 6 of the Best from John McGrath, John McGrath, Polygon 1996 A Good Night Out, John McGrath Talking to Terrorists, Robin Soanes The Permanent Way, David Hare My Name is Rachel Corrie, The Laramie Project, The Crucible, Arthur Miller The Cheviot, The Stag and The Black, Black Oil, John McGrath The History Plays, David Hare Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Liz Lochhead Plays Five: Hated Nightfall; Seven Lears; Wounds to the Face; The Last Supper , Oberon 2009 Angels in America Parts 1 & 2, Kushner, Tony; Plays: "Glengarry Glen Ross", "Prairie Du Chien", the "Shawl", "Speed-the-Plow" Vol 3 (Methuen World Classics), David Mamet, 1996 Mark Ravenhill Conor Mcpherson David Greig John Retallack Danny 306 Dr Korjak’s Example

Secondary Reading: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Poetics, Aristotle The Hidden Plot, State of Play, various, Death, the One and the Art of Theatre, Howard Barker Theatre Histories: An Introduction, Phillip B. Zarrilli, Bruce McConachie, Gary Jay Williams, Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei In-yer-face Theatre: British Drama Today, Aleks Sierz, 2001 The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre (Cambridge Introductions to Literature), Simon Shepherd , 2009 True and False, David Mamet Theatre Symposium: Comedy Tonight! Vol 16, Ed. Jay Malarcher, The University of Alabama Press; New edition 2008 Comedy: A Bibliography of Critical Studies in English on the Theory and Practice of Comedy in Drama, Theatre and Performance, Meghan Duffy and Daniel C. Gerould, Theatre Communications Group 2006 The Cambridge Companion to Brecht (Cambridge Companions to Literature), Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks, Cambridge, 2006 The Theatre of the Absurd, Esslin, Martin; Methuen (2001) The Crucible in History, Arthur Miller The Contemporary British History Play, Richard H Palmer, Greenwood Press 1998 Tragedy: a very short introduction, Adrian Poole, OUP, Oxford, 2005 The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy, Jennifer Wallace, Cambridge Introductions to Literature 2007 Sweet Violence: the idea of the Tragic, Terry Eagleton,Wilney-Blackwell, 2002 The Theory of the Modern Stage: An Introduction to Modern Theatre and Drama, Bentley, E. Penguin (1992)