LITR 4533:
TRAGEDY
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Handouts & Research Links |
Handouts
Genre handout
On the "Greatness" of
Tragedy
Aristotle, Poetics
Greek Poets and Philosophers
"The Sublime"
Samson in the
Bible's Book of Judges
Connections between
Classical Greece and Judeo-Christianity in Oedipus at Colonus & Samson
Agonistes
Scriptural counterparts to
Hippolytus, Phaedra, & Desire
Under the Elms
Comic Theory
Backgrounds to Hippolytus, Phaedra, and
Desire
Under the Elms
Links for course texts
including original websites for Online Texts
Sophocles,
Oedipus the King |
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Oedipus
the King--Ian Johnston verse translation
(recommended for student use; an annotated file will be emailed)
Oedipus the King, abridged & adapted for younger audiences
Aristotle's Poetics on Oedipus the King
Sophocles
website
Aeschylus,
Oresteia |
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Oresteia home page at American
Repertory Theatre
Agamemnon
(recommended for student use; an annotated file will be emailed)
The Libation-Bearers
(The Choephori)
Eumenides
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound
The Internet Classics Archive
Shelley,
Prometheus Unbound
Family Guy
Oresteia
Agamemnon chorus & masks
Timeline of masks in Greek
Theater
O'Neill,
Mourning Becomes Electra |
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eONeill.com: an electronic Eugene
O’Neill Archive
eONeill.com article on O’Neill’s composition of
Mourning Becomes Electra &
Desire Under the Elms
Review of 2004
National Theatre of London production of Mourning Becomes Electra
Nick’s Flick Picks review of
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947 film)
PBS Great Performances: Mourning
Becomes Electra(1978) on Internet Movie Data Base
Euripedes,
Hippolytus |
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Hippolytus modern
performance version (pdf file) by Jon Corelis
(recommended for student use)
Hippolytus: plot
summary
Aristotle's Poetics applied to Euripides's Hippolytus
Hippolytus verse translation from Bartleby.com
Hippolytus prose translation by E. P. Coleridge
Euripedes,
from The Greek Way by Edith Hamilton
Racine,
Phaedra |
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Racine, Phaedra
(recommended for student use; an annotated file will be emailed)
Phaedra:
Study Guide
O'Neill,
Desire Under the Elms |
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eONeill.com: an electronic Eugene
O’Neill Archive
eONeill.com article on O’Neill’s composition of
Mourning Becomes Electra &
Desire Under the Elms
O'Neill
site with good links to articles about O'Neill
Review of Desire
Under the Elms (African American cast)
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus |
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Oedipus at Colonus,
verse translation by Francis Storrs
(recommended for student use; an annotated file will be emailed)
The Gospel at
Colonus
Cal State-Fresno
production of The Gospel at Colonus
1984 TV movie of Oedipus at
Colonus
Milton,
Samson Agonistes |
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Milton, Samson Agonistes
(recommended for student use; an annotated file will be emailed)
Milton Reading Room at Dartmouth
College
Recent reference to Samson Agonistes in political press
Samson in the
Bible's Book of Judges
Josephus
(1st century historian) on Samson
General
or Miscellaneous Sites
Outline
of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy
Aristotle,
Poetics
Classical Drama Resources
History
of the theater in the USA
The Internet
Classics Archive (e-texts of 441 works of classical literature)
History of Drama
homepage at Emory University
Robert
Kennedy's eulogy for Martin Luther King + reference to Aeschylus
TheatreHistory.com
Films based on works
by Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus
Websites of literary terms
A
Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (University of Kentucky Classics)
All-American:
Glossary of Literary Terms (U of North Carolina-Pembroke)
The
Virtual Classroom Glossary of Literary Terms
Literary
Terms
Glossary
of Poetic Terms
Virtual
Salt Glossary of Literary Terms
Glossary
of Theological Terms
Glossary
of Grammatical Terms
Glossaries,
Concordances, Quotations on the Web
MLA
Style Sheet
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
parodies
Introduction to A
Midsummer Night's Dream
Lorraine
Hansberry
Biography
of Hansberry
Concordance
of A Raisin in the Sun
Bibliography
for Hansberry from Perspectives in American Literature
Chronology
of Lorraine Hansberry's career
Eugene
O'Neill
An Electronic Eugene
O'Neill Archive
Eugene
O'Neill's Tao House
O'Neill
website with links to etexts of O'Neill plays:
O'Neill
website with links to other playwrights
O'Neill
site with good links to articles about O'Neill
Review of Desire
Under the Elms (African American cast)
Recent
New York revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten
Review
of NY revival of A Moon for the Misbegotten
Review of
Long Day's Journey into Night
Review of Ah!
Wilderness
Review of Ah!
Wilderness
Marsha
Norman
Concordance
to 'night Mother
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