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Preliminary reading list (books I read):
'''Plays'''
 
* Dryden, John: Oedipus
 
'''Renaissance'''
* William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
* William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
* William Shakespeare: MacBeth
* William Shakespeare: MacBeth
* Christopher Marlowe: The Tragedy of Dido, Queen of Carthage, Hero and Leander
* Christopher Marlowe: The Tragedy of Dido
* Tenessee Williams - Cat on a hot tin roof
 


'''Poems'''
* Christopher Marlowe: Hero and Leander
* William Shakespeare: sonnets (dark lady sonnets)
* Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (=> may be exchanged for ''One's Self I Sing'')
* William Butler Yeats: The Tower, Easter 1916
* Patrick Kavanagh: Lines Written on a Seat
on the Grand Canal, Dublin; Canal Bank Walk


'''Restauration'''
* Dryden, John: Oedipus
* texts from the Restauration Drama seminar...


''' American '''
'''Prose'''
* Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold-Bug, etc.
* Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug
* Walt Withman: Song of Myself
* Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter
* Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter
* Ernest Hemingway: Old Man at the Bridge
* Ernest Hemingway: Old Man at the Bridge
''' Irish '''
* William Butler Yeats: various poems
* Patrick Kavanagh: various poems
* Seamus Heaney
* James Joyce: Ulysses
* James Joyce: Ulysses
* James Joyce: Dubliners
* James Joyce: Dubliners




* Arthur Conan Doyle: various
 
*Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
*Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
*Blake - Jerusalem

Revision as of 11:45, 31 October 2008

Plays

  • Dryden, John: Oedipus
  • William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet
  • William Shakespeare: MacBeth
  • Christopher Marlowe: The Tragedy of Dido
  • Tenessee Williams - Cat on a hot tin roof


Poems

  • Christopher Marlowe: Hero and Leander
  • William Shakespeare: sonnets (dark lady sonnets)
  • Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (=> may be exchanged for One's Self I Sing)
  • William Butler Yeats: The Tower, Easter 1916
  • Patrick Kavanagh: Lines Written on a Seat

on the Grand Canal, Dublin; Canal Bank Walk


Prose

  • Edgar Allan Poe: The Gold Bug
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlett Letter
  • Ernest Hemingway: Old Man at the Bridge
  • James Joyce: Ulysses
  • James Joyce: Dubliners


  • Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
  • Stevenson, Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
  • Blake - Jerusalem