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.

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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)
  
• 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)
• Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Part One (Nick Hern Books 2007)
• Mongiwekhaya, I See You (Methuen 2016) [Also available on Drama Online]
• Lynn Nottage, Sweat (Nick Hern Books 2017)
• Sean O’Casey, The Plough and the Stars (Faber 2001)
• Ntozake Shange, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide (Prentice Hall 1997)
• Sophie Treadwell, Machinal (Nick Hern Books 1993) [Also available on Proquest]
• Anne Washburn, Mr. Burns (Oberon Books 2014)
• August Wilson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Plume 1991)

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2. Some of the plays are out of copyright and can be accessed for free:

• Dion Boucicault, The Colleen Bawn (Archive.org)
• Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats, Cathleen ni Houlihan (Archive.org)
• Eugene O'Neill, The Hairy Ape (Archive.org)

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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)
• Mbongeni Ngema, Sarafina! (Term 1, Week 9)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton (Term 2, Week 10)