WELCOME ENG 395: Drama II 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:
- Speak or write as a seasoned drama critic: consult McGraw-Hill's online Glossary of Drama Terms.
- Download or view online this fact sheet to help with your reading or writing about literature/drama.
- Learn about major playwrights and the century-by-century development of the theatre!
- Find out some fascinating facts about the costumes/masks, productions, machinery used, women [their roles, in the audience, etc.] in the ancient Greek theatre.
- 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.
- Know the Three Unities, as described by Aristotle!
- View the Theatre Database's list of related links and its brief introduction to Lysistrata [411 BCE], the third/concluding play in the "War and Peace series" by the ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes [448-385 BCE].
- Probe some questions raised by and aspects surrounding this ancient Greek comedy about war: Lysistrata [411 BCE].
- What is a comedy of manners?
- Scan a quick synopsis of The Misanthrope [1666]--and then dig further here to uncover the life, times, and works of 17th Century French playwright Molière [1622-1673].
- This University of Virginia Website offers a synopsis of the 18th C. farce She Stoops to Conquer which mocked the leisure class life of many in its audience when it premiered in 1773 at London's famed Covent Garden Theatre.
- 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].
- What is the well-made play?
- This curious website contains both facts and links surrounding bad-boy playwright Oscar Wilde [1854-1900] and his incomparable comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest [1895].
- Click on American Literature on the Web's resource page on the life of dramatist Susan Glaspell [1876-1948] and her one-act mystery play, Trifles [1916].
- This surrealist play by Luigi Pirandello [1867-1936] explores the relationship between art (drama) and life, while it examines the impossibility of ever knowing reality: Six Characters in Search of an Author [1921].
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