Table of Contents
Study Materials
Readings
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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
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. New York: Grove Press, 1991. ISBN: 0802132758.
–––. The Real Inspector Hound and Other Plays. New York: Grove Press, 1998. ISBN: 0802135617.
–––. Travesties. New York: Grove Press, 1991. ISBN: 0802150896.
–––. Tom Stoppard: Plays 5. Boston: Faber and Faber, 2000. ISBN: 0571197515.
–––. 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.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays One. New York: Routledge, 1985. ISBN: 0415901960.
–––. Top Girls. London: Methuen, 1991. ISBN: 0413644707.
–––. Serious Money. London: Methuen, 2002. ISBN: 0413771202.
–––. 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 Plays 2, Methuen. ISBN 0-413-62270-3, which contains Top Girls and Serious Money.