English 3413 EXTRA-CREDIT PERFORMANCES Spring 2005 Mercer

VIDEOTAPES ON RESERVE IN NSU-BA LIBRARY

Classical Period:

In Search of the Trojan War,

tape 1: episodes 1, 2 (15 min.), 4, 3: 3 hrs., 15 min. total

tape 2: episode 6: 1 hr.

The Odyssey, Hallmark, PA4025 A5 K66 1997

Sophocles's Oedipus the King, AV PA 4414 .07T3 1988 [Sorry, library no longer has this item.]

Euripides's Medea, 90 min. [see p. 358 ff. in text]

Aristophanes=s Lysistrata, PA3875 L8 1987 [for mature audiences only]

Dido and Aeneas [Purcell's opera based on Virgil's Aeneid]

The Mah~bh~rata

tape 1: parts 1-2: 4 hrs.

tape 2: part 3: 2 hrs.

Middle Ages through 18th Century:

Arabian Nights, 4 hrs. [cover stories from 1001 Nights that aren=t in our textbook]

Renaissance, part 3: "The Prince" [relates to Machiavelli=s The Prince]

The Power of the Past: "Florence": 90 min. [Renaissance in Florence, Italy]

Molière's Tartuffe, PQ1842 A49 1978 [same English verse translation as in our textbook]

Molière's Le Misanthrope, PQ1837 A37 D89 1989: 2 hrs. [in French with English subtitles]

Cervantes=s Don Quixote, TNT, starring John Lithgow

19th and 20th Centuries:

Flaubert’s Madame Bovary

Biography: ATolstoy,@ A&E: 1 hr.

Ibsen=s Hedda Gabler, PT8868 A38 1994

Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, version 1, starring Susan Clark: 2 hrs.

Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, version 2, Masterpiece Theatre

The Story of Anna Akhmatova, PBS: 1 hr.

Nabokov on Kafka: 30 min. [the Nobel-prize winning Russian-born writer Nabokov lectures on and reads from Kakfa's Metamorphosis]

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AUDIOTAPES ON RESERVE IN LIBRARY

The Odyssey, Soundelux version, 2 audiotapes

Homer's Odyssey, 9 audiotapes @ 90 min.: ca. 13 hrs. total

Dante=s Inferno, NPR, 1 audiotape

Voltaire's Candide, 3 audiotapes @ 90 min.: 4.5 hrs. total [first tape covers required reading for class--chapters 1-10]; plot summary and critique of story also included in hard copy

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VIDEOTAPES AT TULSA CITY-COUNTY LIBRARIES

(Not an exhaustive list; just the tip of the iceberg)

The Search for Ulysses, based on the book Ulysses Found by Ernie Bradford, CBS-TV

Sophocles=s Antigone, Greek dialogue with English subtitles, Hens Booth Video

Ibsen=s Hedda Gabler, Brut Productions, Fox Hills Video

Andre Gregory=s Vanya on 42^nd Street, based on Chakhov=s Uncle Vanya, Tristar Home Video, featuring Julianne Moore

Tolstoy=s War and Peace, dubbed English, 1967 film adaptation, 3 cassettes, 360 min.

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VIDEOTAPES TO BE RENTED

(Your written responses to these videotapes must show your understanding of the relevance of the productions to this course!)

The Name of the Rose [shows contrast between medieval and Renaissance world views; also, the forbidden book is the section of Aristotle's Poetics that covers comedy]

A Room with a View [partly set in Florence, Italy]

The Princess Bride [medieval romance, the genre satirized in Don Quixote]

Flaubert's Madame Bovary

Tolstoy's Anna Karenina

Tolstoy's War and Peace

Ibsen's A Doll's House

Chekhov's Uncle Vanya

Also, any other videos relevant to class and approved by instructor

Try especially to find videos of the plays studied in the class: Sophocles's Oedipus the King, Aristophanes's Lysistrata, Molière's Tartuffe, Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, and Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

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ARTICLES ON RESERVE IN LIBRARY

(in file folders)

Y. J. Dayananda, "The Death of Ivan Ilyich: A Psychological Study On Death and Dying."

Gordon E. Bigelow, "A Primer of Existentialism."

Critical articles on Alexander Solzhenitsyn and One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

Critical articles on Albert Camus and The Stranger