09/26/21 FT1ITH: Introduction to Theatre | University of Reading FT1ITH: Introduction to Theatre View Online This module introduces you to the study of theatre and performance through a series of play text case studies and theatre visits. ‘[1973] “Not I” (Samuel Beckett)’, 2010 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4LDwfKxr-M> ———, 2010 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4LDwfKxr-M> ‘About the Play | Cymbeline | Royal Shakespeare Company’ <https://www.rsc.org.uk/cymbeline> ——— <https://www.rsc.org.uk/cymbeline> ‘Alan Cumming and Tony Curran in Rehearsals for The Bacchae’, 21AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slqXLI2DoRc> ‘A Pacifist’s Guide to the War on Cancer | National Theatre’ <https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/a-pacifists-guide-to-the-war-on-cancer> ——— <https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/a-pacifists-guide-to-the-war-on-cancer> Arnott, Peter D., and ebrary, Inc, Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre (London: Routledge, 1991) <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10060943> Ashby, Clifford, and ebrary, Inc, Classical Greek Theatre: New Views of an Old Subject (Iowa City, Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 1999), Studies in theatre history & culture <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10579441> Aston, E., ‘“Semiotics of Performance”’, in Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance (London: Routledge, 1991), pp. 99–122 <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1581598> Aston, Elaine, and George Savona, Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance (London: Routledge, 1991) <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1581598> ———, Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance (London: Routledge, 1991) <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1581598> ———, Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance (London: Routledge, 1991) <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1581598> ———, Theatre as Sign-System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance (London: Routledge, 1/6 09/26/21 FT1ITH: Introduction to Theatre | University of Reading 1991) <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1581598> Auslander, Philip, and MyiLibrary, Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture, 2nd ed (London: Routledge, 2008) <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/reading/detail.action?milDocID=110219> ‘BBC News Not I Lisa Dwan Explains Beckett’s Play Backstage’, 29AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9-wug3ktbs> Brown, John Russell, Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/reading/detail.action?milDocID=85717> Brušák, Karel, ‘Signs in the Chinese Theater’, in Semiotics of Art: Prague School Contributions (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1976) Campbell, Patrick, The Body in Performance ([S.l.]: Hardwood Academic Publishers, 2000), Contemporary theatre review <https://go.openathens.net/redirector/reading.ac.uk?url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/bo oks/9781315079974> Counsell, Colin, Signs of Performance: An Introduction to Twentieth-Century Theatre (London: Routledge, 1996) <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1474664> Counsell, Colin, Laurie Wolf, and MyiLibrary, Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook (London: Routledge, 2001) <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/reading/detail.action?milDocID=14097> ———, Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook (London: Routledge, 2001) <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/reading/detail.action?milDocID=14097> ———, Performance Analysis: An Introductory Coursebook (London: Routledge, 2001) <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/reading/detail.action?milDocID=14097> ‘Euripides, Trojan Women’ <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classical-play/archive/TrojanWomen-essay> ‘Euripides’ Trojan Women Study Guide’ <https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/classical-play/archive/2013TrojanWomen-studyinfo> Fischer-Lichte, Erika, Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides’ The Bacchae in a Globalizing World (Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell, 2014), Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10802868> Fischer-Lichte, Erika, and Benjamin Wihstutz, Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology (Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013), Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1092694> Fitzpatrick, Tim, Playwright, Space, and Place in Early Modern Performance: Shakespeare and Company (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2011), [Studies in performance and early 2/6 09/26/21 FT1ITH: Introduction to Theatre | University of Reading modern drama] <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10495700> ‘Footfalls by Samuel Beckett (from: Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays)’ <http://dramaonlinelibrary.com.idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/plays/footfalls-iid-160124/do-9780 571293766-div-40000080> ——— <http://dramaonlinelibrary.com.idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/plays/footfalls-iid-160124/do-9780 571293766-div-40000080> ‘Footfalls - Samuel Beckett (Beckett on Film, 2001)’, 16AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMQXNm3c5c> ———, 16AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMQXNm3c5c> Greig, David, and Euripides, ‘The Bacchae’, FF plays (2007) <https://go.openathens.net/redirector/reading.ac.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/978057 1284382.00000004> ———, ‘The Bacchae’, FF plays (2007) <https://go.openathens.net/redirector/reading.ac.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/978057 1284382.00000004> ‘Juliet Stevenson and Alan Rickman Discuss Beckett’, 9AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQMQPmMMTek> ‘Legend of the White Snake | Artnet News’ <https://news.artnet.com/market/legend-of-the-white-snake-30458> Low, Jennifer A., and Nova Myhill, Imagining the Audience in Early Modern Drama, 1558-1642, 1st ed (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=678871> Lyne, Raphael, and ebrary, Inc, Shakespeare’s Late Work (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), Oxford Shakespeare topics <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10271384> Maley, Willy, and ebrary, Inc, Nation, State, and Empire in English Renaissance Literature: Shakespeare to Milton (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10076878> Maley, Willy, Rory Loughnane, and ebrary, Inc, Celtic Shakespeare: The Bard and the Borderers (Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2013) McDonald, Marianne, and Michael Walton, The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), Cambridge Companions to Literature <https://go.openathens.net/redirector/reading.ac.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CCOL97 80521834568> McLeish, Kenneth, and Euripides, ‘Women of Troy’, 2016 <https://go.openathens.net/redirector/reading.ac.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/978178 3/6 09/26/21 FT1ITH: Introduction to Theatre | University of Reading 4603540.10000015> ———, ‘Women of Troy’, 2016 <https://go.openathens.net/redirector/reading.ac.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/978178 4603540.10000015> McMullan, Anna, Theatre on Trial: Samuel Beckett’s Later Drama (New York: Routledge, 1993) <https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/reading/detail.action?milDocID=2577> Mehl, Dieter, Christa Jansohn, Lena Cowen Orlin, Stanley W. Wells, and ebrary, Inc, Shakespeare without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011) <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10496292> Mudford, Peter, Making Theatre: From Text to Performance (London: Athlone Press, 2000) <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10250785> ‘Not I by Samuel Beckett (from: Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays)’ <http://dramaonlinelibrary.com.idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/plays/not-i-iid-160120/do-9780571 293766-div-40000070> ——— <http://dramaonlinelibrary.com.idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/plays/not-i-iid-160120/do-9780571 293766-div-40000070> ‘Not I / Footfalls / Rockaby by Samuel Beckett - UK Tour’, 13AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypJ_fBsWQ7c> ‘Online Reading Lists: A Guide for Students’ (University of Reading Library) <http://libguides.reading.ac.uk/reading-lists/students> ‘Peking-Opera Legend as White Snake - CCTV News - CCTV.com English’ <http://english.cctv.com/2016/05/26/VIDECcsQONcpaBGXxfF2JQnd160526.shtml> ——— <http://english.cctv.com/2016/05/26/VIDECcsQONcpaBGXxfF2JQnd160526.shtml> Price, Daniel M., Ryan J. Johnson, and ebrary, Inc, The Movement of Nothingness: Trust in the Emptiness of Time (Aurora, Colo: Davies Group, 2013) <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10716102> Rehm, Rush, Greek Tragic Theatre (London: Routledge, 1992), Theatre production studies <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/reading/Doc?id=10100177> ‘Rockaby by Samuel Beckett (from: Krapp’s Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays)’ <http://dramaonlinelibrary.com.idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/plays/rockaby-iid-160128/do-97805 71293766-div-40000091> ——— <http://dramaonlinelibrary.com.idpproxy.reading.ac.uk/plays/rockaby-iid-160128/do-97805 71293766-div-40000091> ‘Samuel Beckett - Rockaby, Starring Billie Whitelaw, Director: Alan Schneider (1981)’, 3AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66iZF6SnnDU&list=RD66iZF6SnnDU#t=3> 4/6 09/26/21 FT1ITH: Introduction to Theatre | University of Reading ———, 3AD <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66iZF6SnnDU&list=RD66iZF6SnnDU#t=3> Saunders, Graham, British Theatre Companies 1980-1994: Joint Stock Theatre Company, Gay Sweatshop, Théâtre de Complicité, Forced Entertainment, Women’s Theatre Group, and Talawa (London: Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2015) <http://reading.eblib.com/patron/FullRecord.aspx?p=1935408>