Readings

Required Texts

Although I would not ordinarily prescribe editions for classic works, we will read several in translation; try to have the same version others are using for those texts at least (Aristophanes, Plautus, Molière, Calvino).

Additional supplemental readings are included on the study materials page.

Note: All downloadable texts linked here are not the versions used in the course. Be aware that they may contain errors.

Buy at Amazon Aristophanes. Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Clouds, the Birds, Lysistrata, the Frogs. Translated by William Arrowsmith. New York, NY: Plume Books, 1994. ISBN: 9780452007178. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Buy at Amazon Plautus, Titus Maccius. Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold. Translated by Erich Segal. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780192838964.

Buy at Amazon Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. New York, NY: Washington Square Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780671722579. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Buy at Amazon ———. Four Comedies. Edited by G. R. Hibbard and S. Wells. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 1995. ISBN: 9780140434545.

Buy at Amazon Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin. The Misanthrope and Tartuffe. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Fort Washington, PA: Harvest Books, 1965. ISBN: 9780156605175. (Download a version of the text from Bibliomania.)

Buy at Amazon Behn, Aphra. The Rover and Other Plays. Edited by Jane Spencer. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780192834515. (Download a version of the text from the University of Adelaide Library.)

Buy at Amazon Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. Edited by J. Kisley, with F. W. Bradbrook and I. Armstrong. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780192833556.

Buy at Amazon Twain, Mark. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy Those Extraordinary Twins. Edited by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780195114157. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Buy at Amazon Wilde, Oscar, and Sylvan Barnet. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. New York, NY: Signet Books, 1985. ISBN: 9780451525055. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg.)

Buy at Amazon Calvino, Italo. Cosmicomics. Translated by William Weaver. New York, NY: Harvest/HBJ, 1976. ISBN: 9780156226004.

Buy at Amazon Bechdel, Alison. Fun Home. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN: 9780618477944.