Drama Topics and Links
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A Raisin in the Sun

• Link to Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs

• Study questions and possible paper starters.

Hamlet

• Study questions for Acts I, II, III

The Crucible

• Links to University of Pennsylvania's website on HUAC, McCarthyism, the Hollywood Blacklist, other stuff from the 1950's.

• Link to Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks' Crucible website for high school students.

A Streetcar Named Desire

• A website giving the true history of the actual Desire Streetcar!

• A fair but not thrilling commentary on a 1997 production of Streetcar in San Francisco.

• More commentary, this time on the movie Related info on Williams, Jessica Tandy, characters, production, etc.

Out of Class Essays                        To extra credit page...    

• Assignment Explanation

• Thesis-building tips

Fences

•  Link to bio of August Wilson

• Study questions from Professor Bill Hynes of U. of Indianapolis

• Bios of Josh Gibson, Satchel Paige, and Jackie Robinson.

• Maslow links that cover and expand on class material:
          Existential Psychology
          Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
          Maslow and Others on Existentialiam

Waiting for Godot (read AFTER discussion in class, please)

• Link to essay on Godot as a reflection of society.

• Link to essay on Godot as commentary on the unknown purpose of life.

• Link to essay on rope imagery in Godot.

• Link to Beckett biography and other Beckett links.

• Link to essay entitled "From Beckett to Stoppard: Existentialism, Death, and Absurdity"

• Link to the webpage of the Samuel Beckett society (yes, it exists)

• Link to the Nobel Foundation's (Beckett won the Nobel Prize in 1969) page on Beckett.

• Postmodernism: what is it? This link tries to help.

• Theatre of the Absurd: brief definition from UNC.

• Reviews of Godot: Boston Globe (Beckett's 1989 obituary), NY Times (1956)

M. Butterfly

• Link to interview with David Henry Hwang.

• Transcript of a lecture DHH gave at M.I.T.

• Complete text of "Brecht, Feminism, and Chinese Theatre"

• Link to Asian Law Journal "Invention, Inversion and Intervention: The Oriental Woman..."

The Member of the Wedding

• Link to The Carson McCullers Project, containing blurbs about the book and the movie, biographical info.

• Link to The Carson McCullers Society, an organization that takes itself very seriously but has surprisingly little information.

Evaluations: Link to assignment explanation