Primary Reading
It is essential for all students to bring copies of the week's readings (book, hardcopy printout, or laptop/e-reader; NOT mobile phone copy) to seminar.
All of the module texts have been notified to Warwick Library; over the summer (2020) every endeavour will be made to place e-copies of these playtexts in the library.
1. Many of the plays studied in this module come in several editions. Here are recommended texts with links to purchase new or second-hand (listed alphabetically by author):
- James Baldwin, Blues for Mister Charlie (Vintage International 1995)
- Amiri Baraka [LeRoi Jones], Dutchman (William Morrow 1999)
- Sebastian Barry, The Steward of Christendom (A&C Black 1997)
- Marina Carr, By the Bog of Cats (Faber 2004) [Also available on Drama Online]
- Athol Fugard, John Kani, Winston Ntshona, Sizwe Bansi is Dead, The Island, and Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Theatre Communications Group 1993) [Also available on Proquest]
- Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (Methuen 2011)
- David Ireland, Cyprus Avenus (Methuen 2016) [Also available on Drama Online]
- Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, An Octoroon (Nick Hern Books 2017) [A
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Part One (Nick Hern Books 2007)
- Tarell Alvin McCraney, The Brothers Size (Faber 2018)
- Frank McGuinness, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Faber 2016)
- Arthur Miller, The Crucible and Death of a Salesman (Methuen 2020)
- Anaïs Mitchell, Hadestown (Plume 2020)
- Mongiwekhaya, I See You (Methuen 2016) [Also available on Drama Online]
- Sean O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars and The Shadow of a Gunman (Faber 1998)
- Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (Prentice Hall 1997)
- Tennessee WIlliams, A Streetcar Named Desire (Penguin Classics 2009)
- August Wilson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Plume 1991)
2. Some of the plays are out of copyright and can be accessed for free, or are videos available through Box of Broadcasts or other sources:
- Dion Boucicault, The Colleen Bawn (Archive.org)
- Terence MacSwiney, The Revolutionist (Archive.org)
- Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats, Cathleen ni Houlihan (Archive.org)
- Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape (Archive.org)
- Eugene O'Neill, All God's Chillun Got Wings (Archive.org)
3. Your tutor will distribute the following readings, which are more difficult to track down (listed as they appear):
- Anne Devlin, Ourselves Alone (Term 1, Week 4)
- Athol Fugard, 'Master Harold'... and the Boys (Term 1, Week 8)