WELCOME  ENG 394: Drama I  END-USERS!

Click here to visit your textbook's Companion website for background data, study questions, links, self-quizzes--and more! 

Please click on any of these helpful numbered links:

1. Speak or write as a seasoned drama critic: consult McGraw-Hill's online Glossary of Drama Terms.
2. Download or view online this fact sheet to help with your reading or writing about literature/drama.
3. Learn about major playwrights and the century-by-century development of the theatre!
4. Find out some fascinating facts about the costumes/masks, productions, machinery used, women [their roles, in the audience, etc.] in the ancient Greek theatre.
5. Inspect Bullfinch's Mythology for references to myths, legends, gods/goddesses, mortals, heroes, conflicts, and places featured in those masterworks we are studying this term.
6. Know the Three Unities, as described by Aristotle!  
7. Consider the forces driving Antigone [c. 441 BCE], a play of The Oedipus Cycle written by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles [c. 496-405 BCE].
8. Virtually explore the period, the playwright, and the subject matter behind Wm. Shakespeare's tragic play Othello [c. 1604].
9. Marvel at this incomparable website that contains background details, features a useful timeline, and knows all things about...Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet.
10. Watch the ever-evolving Nora Helmer, the main subject of an unsettling drama called A Doll House, written in 1879 by the famed 19th century Norwegian dramatist Henrik Ibsen [1828-1906]--known as "the Shakespeare of modern drama" or "the father of modern drama."
11. Explore some of the issues [such as gender and society, etc.] raised by the provocative play Miss Julie, written in 1888 by Swedish playwright August Strindberg [1849-1912].
12. This academic website--with its FAQs and links to other sites--gives you fast facts about Russian playwright Anton Chekhov [1860-1904] and his comic/tragic play The Cherry Orchard, first staged in 1904.  
13. Learn about the period, autobiographical forces, and social issues influencing that modern classic "memory play" The Glass Menagerie, written in 1944 by bad-boy American playwright Tennessee Williams [1911-1983].
14. Consult The Arthur Miller Society Official Website  to learn more about Miller [1915-2005] and his celebrated masterpiece Death of a Salesman: Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play written in 1949. 

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