Sophocles, Philoctetes, trans. Meineck (Hackett Classics)
Seamus Heaney, The Cure at Troy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Plautus, The Pot of Gold, in Four Comedies, trans. Segal (Oxford UP)
Molière, The Miser, trans. Wood & Coward (Penguin Classics)
Shakespeare, The Winter’s Tale, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger)
Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time (Hogarth)
Here are links related to our recent discussion of Irène Némirovsky's Suite Française:
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by Her Daughter, Élisabeth Gille
Denise Epstein, fille d' Irène Némirovsky, parle avec Egill Helgason - Kiljan 2011-09-07
Irène Némirovsky: "Suite Française"
Kristin Scott Thomas Exclusive Interview - Suite Française
Watch! TEN talks to Suite Française star Matthias Schoenaerts
Mark Kermode reviews Suite Francaise
David Golder:
Heath, Malcolm. “The Universality of Poetry in Aristotle’s Poetics.” The Classical Quarterly, vol. 41, no. 2, Cambridge University Press, 1991, pp. 389–402, http://www.jstor.org/stable/
David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair
The Mirador: Dreamed Memories of Irene Nemirovsky by her Daughter
A Strange and Beautiful Book About a Mother Who Disappeared
Franz Werfel:
Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand
NICOLAISEN, PETER. “The Southern Agrarians and European Agrarianism.” The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, Mississippi State University, 1996, pp. 683–700, http://www.jstor.org/stable/26475898.
For our upcoming session, I suggest you read "Guigemar" and "Yönec." Then, consider these groupings:
In addition, here are two great resources you can use to prepare for our reading and discussion of the Lais of Marie de France:
British Library:
https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-lays-and-fables-of-marie-de-france
Kathy Krause:
https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/“lais”-marie-de-france
Cite:
Krause, Kathy. “The Lais of Marie de France,” Middle Ages for Educators, April 10, 2020. Accessed[date]. https://middleagesforeducators.princeton.edu/node/266/
Here are links to resources related to our reading of Plautus' The Brothers Menaechmus.
Video performance inspired by the The Brothers Menaechumus
The Homebuddies Perform The Brothers Menaechmus by Plautus!
The Good, the Bad, and the Menaechmi
Brothers Menaechmus - Oak Park High School
Roman Theater & Theater History - Video
Dances to Flute Music and Obscene Verse. It's Roman Theater, Everybody: Crash Course Theater #5
Roman Theater with Plautus, Terence, and Seneca: Crash Course Theater #6
Previous post on this site for Theater History
https://www.brilliantminds.info/2021/01/theater-links.html
Books on Roman Theater
Slave Theater in the Roman Republic: Plautus and Popular Comedy Reprint Edition
The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Comedy (Oxford Handbooks) Illustrated Edition
Music in Roman Comedy Reprint Edition
The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy 1st Edition
Classical Literary Criticism, including Horace's Ars Poetica
Classical Literary Criticism (Penguin Classics) 2Rev Ed Edition, Kindle Edition
Summer 2021 Book list
Marilynne Robinson, Jack (Picador)
Michael Thomas, Man Gone Down (Black Cat)
Claudia Rankine, Just Us: An American Conversation (Graywolf)
Jericho Brown, The Tradition (Copper Canyon)
Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, Discomfort of Evening (Graywolf)
Souvankham Thammavongsa, How to Pronounce Knife (Back Bay)
Fall 2021 Book list
Plautus, The Brothers Menaechmus, in Four Comedies, trans. Segal (Oxford)
Marie de France, The Lais of Marie de France, trans. Gilbert (Norton Critical)
Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors, ed. Mowat (Folger/Simon & Schuster)
Knut Hamsun, Growth of the Soil, trans. Lyngstad (Penguin)
Irène Némirovsky, Suite française, trans. Smith (Vintage)
Kazuo Ishiguro, Klara and the Sun (Knopf)