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Abstract: You may also find the following helpful in your study of the play texts: ... Janet Ruth Heller, Oscar Wilde's Problem Play: A Woman of No Importance, ...
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ENGL 30481: Modern Drama
Reading List:
Primary Texts:
You will need to acquire copies of all the play texts specified below in the course
syllabus. (Please see below and as published in the course outline). They are
available in paperback (Please secure a copy of Shaw’s Pygmalion: A Romance in
Five Acts which includes its preface and sequel. The ‘definitive text’, edited by
Dan H. Laurence, has been published by Penguin.)
Secondary Texts:
Suggested ‘Preparatory Reading’ has been published together with the course
outline. You may also find the following helpful in your study of the play texts:
Wilde:
Janet Ruth Heller, ‘Oscar Wilde’s Problem Play: A Woman of No Importance,’
Wildean: A Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies, 29 (July, 2006), pp. 47 – 60
Kerry Powell, ‘Wilde Man: Masculinity, Feminism, and A Woman of No
Importance, Wilde’s Writings: Contextual Conditions, ed. Joseph Bristow
(Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 2003), pp. 127 – 46
Sos Eltis, Revising Wilde: Society and Subversion in the Plays of Oscar Wilde
(Oxford: Clarendon, 1997)
Richard Allen Cave, ‘Wilde’s Comedies,’ A Companion to Modern British and
Irish Drama, ed. Mary Luckhurst (Blackwell: 2006), pp. 213 – 24
Richard Allen Cave, ‘Wilde’s Plays: Some Lines of Influence, The Cambridge
Companion to Oscar Wilde, ed. Peter Raby (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997),
pp. 219 – 48
Ricxhard Allen Cave, ‘Wilde’s Designs: Some Thoughts about Recent British
Productions of His Plays,’ Modern Drama 37: 1 (Spring 1994), pp. 175 – 91
Richard Allen Cave, ‘Power structuring: The Presentation of the Outsider
Figures in Wilde’s Plays,’ Rediscovering Oscar Wilde, ed. George C. Sandulescu
(Princess Grace Irish Library: Smythe, 1994), pp. 37 – 51
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Joel H. Kaplan, ‘Staging Wilde’s Society Plays: A Conversation with Philip
Prowse (Glasgow Citizens Theatre),’ Modern Drama 37: 1 (Spring 1994), pp. 192
– 205
Peter Chadwick, ‘Oscar Wilde: The Playwright as Psychologist,’ Wildean: A
Journal of Oscar Wilde Studies 28 (Jan. 2006), pp. 17 – 23
Kate Matlock, ‘Appraisals: The Plays of Oscar Wilde,’ Journal of Irish
Literature 4: 2 (1975), pp. 95 – 106
Shaw:
Errol Durbach, ‘Pygmalion: Myth and AntiMyth in the Plays of Ibsen and
Shaw,’ English Studies in Africa: A Journal of the Humanities 21 (1978), pp. 23
31
J. L.Wisenthal, The Marriage of Contraries: Bernard Shaw’s Middle Plays
(Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1974)
Desmond MacCarthy and J. W. Lambert, Shaw: The Plays (Newton Abbot:
David and Charles, 1973)
John A. Mills, Language and Laughter: Comic Diction in the Plays of Bernard
Shaw (Tuscon: Univ. of Arizona Press, 1969)
C. B. Purdom, A Guide to the Plays of Bernard Shaw (London: Methuen, 1963)
Alan S. Downer, The Theatre of Bernard Shaw (London: Methuen, 1963)
Raymond Mander and Joe Mitchenson, Theatrical Companion to Shaw: A
Pictorial Record of the First Performances of the Plays of Bernard Shaw (London:
Rockcliff, 1955)
Coward:
[Note also the Pinter ref.] Sos Eltis, ‘Bring out the Acid: Noel Coward, Harold
Pinter, Ivy ComptonBurnett and the Uses of Camp,’ Modern Drama 51: 2
(Summer, 2008), pp. 211 33
[Note the ref. to three of the prescribed dramatists] Luc Gilleman, ‘From
Coward and Rattigan to Osborne: Or The Enduring Importance of Look Back
in Anger,’ Modern Drama 51: 1 (Spring, 2008), pp. 104 24
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Rattigan:
John A. Bertolini, ‘Terence Rattigan (1911 – 1977),’ British Writers: Supplement
V11, ed. Jay Panini (New York: Scribner’s, 2002), pp. 307 22.
[Note also the Pinter ref.] Theodore Dalrymple, ‘Reticence or Insincerity,
Rattigan or Pinter,’ NewCriterion 19: 3 (Nov. 2000), pp. 12 – 20
Robert F. Gross, ‘Terence Rattigan (1911 – 1977),’ British Playwrights 1860 –
1956: A Research and Production Sourcebook, eds. William Damastes and
Katherine E. Kelly (Westport: Greenwood, 1996), pp. 339 – 51
Susan Rusinko, Terence Rattigan Twayne’s English Authors Series 366 (Boston:
Twayne, 1983)
Susan Rusinko, ‘Terence Rattigan,’ British Dramatists since Worlf War 11: Part 2:
M – Z, Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. Stanley Weintraub (Detroit:
Thomson Gale, 1982), pp. 420 33
Holly Hill, ‘Rattigan’s Renaissance,’ Contemporary Review 240: 1392 (Jan. 1982)
pp. 37 – 42
Richard Foulkes, ‘Terence Rattigan’s Variations on a Theme,’ Modern Drama 22
(1979), pp. 375 – 82
Osborne:
David H. Karrafalt, ‘The Social Theme in Osborne’s Plays,’ Modern Drama 13
(1970), pp. 78 – 82
Ian ScottKilvert, ‘The Hero in Search of a Dramatists: The Plays of John
Osborne,’ Encounter 9: 6 (1957), pp. 26 30
Michael Haltresht, ‘Guilt and Expiation in John Osborne’s Plays,’ Essays in the
JudaeoChristian Tradition 16: 1 (1976), pp. 33 – 39
Wesker
[Wesker and Osborne] Stephen Lacey, ‘When was the Golden Age? Narratives
of Loss and Decline: John Osborne, Arnold Wesker and Rodney Ackland,’ A
Companion to Modern British and Irish Drama 1880 – 2005, ed. Mary Luckhurst
(Blackwell, 2006), pp. 164 – 74
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Anne Etienne, ‘Arnold Wesker,’ British and Irish Dramatists since World War 11.
Dictionary of Literary Biography, ed. John Bull (Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2005),
pp. 278 – 98
[Wesker and Osborne] Arnold Wesker, ‘A Memory of John Osborne,’ John
Osborne: A Casebook, ed. Patricia D. Denison (New York: Garland, 1997), pp.
187 – 91
Reade Dorman, Arnold Wesker Revisited, Twayne’s English Authors Series 506
(New York: Twayne, 1994)
Robert Wilcher, Understanding Arnold Wesker (Columbia: Univ. of South
Carolina Press, 1991)
A. A. Mutalik Desai, ‘The Wesker Trilogy: Propoganda or Allegory?’ Indian
Journal of English Studies, 26 (1987), pp. 5 – 13
Mary Stephens, ‘Wesker’s The Wesker Trilogy,’ Explicator 43: 3 (Spring 1985),
pp. 45 – 48
Thomas P. Adler, ‘The Wesker Trilogy: Games to Compensate for the
Inadequacy of Words,’ Quarterly Journal of Speech, 65 (1979), pp. 429 – 38
Tom Costello, ‘The Defeat of Naturalism in Arnold Wesker’s Roots,’ Modern
Drama 21 (1978), pp. 39 – 46
Ronald Hayman, Arnold Wesker (New York: Ungar, 1973)
[Wesker, Osborne and Pinter] John R. Brown, Theatre Language: A Study of
Arden, Osborne, Pinter and Wesker (London: Allen Lane, 1972)
Jacqueline Latham, ‘Roots: A Reassessment,’ Modern Drama 8 (1965), pp. 192
97
Laurence Kitchin, ‘Drama with a Message: Arnold Wesker,’ Experimental
Drama, ed. William A. Armstrong (London: G. Bell, 1963), pp. 169 – 85
Alan R. Jones, ‘The Theatre of Arnold Wesker,’ Critical Quarterly 2 (1960), pp.
366 – 70
Richard Findlater, ‘Plays and Politics,’ Twentieth Century 168 (1960), pp. 235 –
42
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Henry Goodman, ‘The New Dramatists, 2; Arnold Wesker,’ Drama Survey 1
(1961), pp. 215 – 22
R. K. Kaul, ‘The Utopia of Arnold Wesker,’ Rajasthan University Studies in
English 18 (1977), pp. 38 – 45
Heinz Zimmermann, ‘Wesker and Utopia in the Sixties,’ Modern Drama 29: 2
(June 1986), pp. 185 206
Beckett, Pinter and Osborne:
The play texts of these dramatists prescribed for this course are also prescribed
for ENGL 30462, ‘Three Modern Dramatists: Beckett, Pinter and Orton’. You
may find helpful the material specified in the reading list for ENGL 30462.
Course Syllabus for ‘Modern Drama’ ENGL 30481:
Week 1: Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance
Week 2: George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Week 3: Noel Coward, Hay Fever
Week 4: Terence Rattigan, The Browning Version
Week 5: John Osborne, Look Back in Anger
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: Arnold Wesker, Roots
Week 8: Samual Beckett, Waiting for Godot
Week 9: Samuel Beckett, Endgame
Week 10: Harold Pinter, The Caretaker
Week 11: Harold Pinter, No Man’s Land
Week 12: Joe Orton, What the Butler Saw
Apart from any other preparatory reading you may engage in, you are
encouraged to make a start on reading the primary texts specified in the course
syllabus before the course begins. In order to facilitate informed discussion IT IS
ESSENTIAL that you read prescribed plays before each seminar, and that you
bring a copy of the prescribed play with you to the seminar
Malcolm Hicks Roger Holdsworth (Course Directors)
malcolm.hicks@manchester.ac.uk roger.holdsworth@manchester.ac.uk
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