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This course traces the history of Western theatre from its Greek origins to the beginning of the eighteenth century in England, with specific reference to plays in a core anthology, The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama.

Act I: The Golden Age

Aeschylus. The Agamemnon of Aeschylus; translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes. Translated by Gilbert Murray, George Allen & Unwin, 1920. Project Gutenberg, 19 June 2023, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14417.
Sophocles. Oedipus, King of Thebes; translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes. Translated by Gilbert Murray, George Allen & Unwin, 1922. Project Gutenberg, 4 January 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27673.
Euripides. The Medea of Euripides; translated into English rhyming verse with explanatory notes. Translated by Gilbert Murray, Oxford UP, 1912. Project Gutenberg, 7 January 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35451.
Aristophanes. Lysistrata. Translated by Jack Lindsay, Hartsdale House, 1920. Project Gutenberg, 2 November 2012, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7700.

Act II: Medieval Roots and Renaissance Flowerings

The Second Shepherds' Pageant. Everyman And Medieval Miracle Plays, edited by A. C. Cawley, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1922. Internet Archive, 24 January 2017, https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458516/page/n97/mode/2up.
Everyman, 15th Century. Internet Medieval Source Book, edited by Paul Halsall, Fordham University, August 1998, https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/basis/everyman.asp.
Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; from the Quarto of 1604. Edited by Alexander Dyce. Project Gutenberg, 3 November 2009, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/779.
Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. The Folger Shakespeare, edited by Barbara Mowat, Paul Werstine, Michael Poston, and Rebecca Niles, Folger Shakespeare Library, 25 August 2023, https://www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/the-tempest/read.

Act III: Sentiment and Wit

Racine, Jean. Phaedra. Translated by Robert Bruce Boswell. Rpt. Project Gutenberg, 7 February 2013, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1977.
Molière. Tartuffe; or, The Hypocrite. Molière: The Affected Misses; Don Juan; Tartuffe; The Misanthrope; The Doctor by Compulsion; The Miser; The Tradesman Turned Gentleman; The Learned Ladies: A New Translation, the Verse Plays Being for the First Time Rendered into English Verse, translated by Curtis Hidden Page, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1908. Project Gutenberg, 31 December 2020, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2027.
Behn, Aphra. The Rover; or, The Banished Cavaliers. John Amery, 1677. Literature in Context: An Open Anthology, edited and annotated by John O'Brien, Sara Brunstetter, and University of Virginia ENEC 3400 students, 2016, https://anthology.lib.virginia.edu/work/Behn/behn-rover.
Farquhar, George. The Recruiting Officer: A Comedy in Five Acts. The Constant Couple: The Inconstant; The Recruiting Officer; The Beaux Stratagem, William Savage, 1808. Project Gutenberg, 28 April 2021, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37012.