This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.

Readings

The list of secondary reading for reports is tentative, and may vary depending on seminar size, student interests, and availability of texts. See the calendar section for details regarding when a particular reading is due.

Required Texts

By Tom Stoppard

Buy at Amazon Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. New York: Grove Press, 1991. ISBN: 0802132758.

Buy at Amazon –––. The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays. New York: Grove Press, 1998. ISBN: 0802135617.

Buy at Amazon –––. Travesties. New York: Grove Press, 1991. ISBN: 0802150896.

Buy at Amazon –––. Tom Stoppard: Plays 5. Boston: Faber and Faber, 2000. ISBN: 0571197515.

Buy at Amazon –––. The Invention of Love. New York: Grove Press, 1998. ISBN: 0802135811.

By Caryl Churchill

Here it gets tricky: for reasons that continue to baffle me. Churchill's plays are always hard to get, or at least the various editions go in and out of print at an alarming rate.

Buy at Amazon Churchill, Caryl. Plays One. New York: Routledge, 1985. ISBN: 0415901960.

Buy at Amazon –––. Top Girls. London: Methuen, 1991. ISBN: 0413644707.

Buy at Amazon –––. Serious Money. London: Methuen, 2002. ISBN: 0413771202.

Buy at Amazon –––. Mad Forest. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1996. ISBN: 155936114x.

Students have had trouble getting Plays One, Top Girls and Serious Money, but have found some used copies of the first two. You might also look around for Buy at Amazon Plays 2, Methuen. ISBN 0-413-62270-3, which contains Top Girls and Serious Money.