Enheduana, The Complete Poems, trans. Helle, (Yale) Euripides, Helen, in: Ion, Helen, Orestes, trans. Svarlien, UK ed. (Hackett) Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger) Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho, ed. Dobr’ee (Oxford) Clarice Lispector, The Besieged... Continue reading

Here is the book list for the upcoming Brilliant Minds - Fall 2023 semester: Cicero, The Nature of the Gods, trans. P.G. Walsh (Oxford) ISBN: 9780199540068 Plutarch, A Selection of Eight Roman Lives, trans. Robin Waterfield (Oxford) ISBN: 9780199537389 Margery... Continue reading

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Here is our Summer reading list! Audrey Magee, The Colony (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Tanya Tagaq, Split Tooth (Penguin) Genya Turovskaya, The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square) Andrey Kurkov, Gray Bees, trans. Boris Dralyuk (Deep Vellum) Olga Tokarczuk,... Continue reading

Brilliant Minds — Spring 2023 Readings: Apuleius, The Golden Ass, trans. Walsh (Oxford) William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger) Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, ed. Watts (Oxford) Abdulrazak Gurnah, Paradise (New Press) Louise Glück, The... Continue reading

Here is our reading list in recommended editions for Fall 2022: Euripides, Hippolytus, trans. Grene, in Euripides I (U Chicago) William Shakespeare, The Tempest, eds. Mowat & Werstine (Folger) Jean Racine, Phèdre, trans. Ted Hughes (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Albert... Continue reading

Here is the list for our Summer reading! Wild Swims, by Dorthe Nors The Committed, by Viet Thanh Nguyen Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth: New and Selected Poems, 2001-2021, by Yusef Komunyakaa In Memory of Memory, by Maria Stepanova Walking... Continue reading

Klara and the Sun links: A Humanoid Who Cares For Humans, From the Mind of Kazuo Ishiguro (NYTimes review) 'Klara And The Sun' Is A Masterpiece About Life, Love And Mortality (NPR review) The Radiant Inner Life of a Robot... Continue reading

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... Continue reading

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:... Continue reading

Hamsun on America Southern Agragrians 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. John Berger: Into Their Labours Growth of the Soil (film) Mysteries (film) Continue reading

The Alchemist Gnit - closing Sunday 11/21 (USE CODE FINAL65 FOR $65 TICKETS) Paradise (Philoctetes) Continue reading

For our upcoming session, I suggest you read "Guigemar" and "Yönec." Then, consider these groupings: Le Chaitivel, Bisclavret, Equitan Lanval, Le Fresne, Eliduc Milun, Laüstic, Chevrefoil, Les Deux Amanz The Lais were meant to be heard -- here is a... Continue reading

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 -... Continue reading

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... Continue reading

Royal Shakespeare Company - background and trailer https://www.rsc.org.uk/the-rover/ Georgetown University - Department of Performing Arts https://performingarts.georgetown.edu/the-rover-reframe/ Shakesqueer Theatre Company - via Facebook https://fb.watch/3WohjsJnHU/ From backstage at the Goodman to kids & clips https://vimeo.com/19726516 https://vimeo.com/26276086 https://vimeo.com/352495648 https://vimeo.com/35581258 Continue reading

Watch Measure for Measure for our next class https://www.broadwayhd.com/movies/AW2GtAcupx3F9_4Aqetv (with Mark Rylance) https://globeplayer.tv/videos/measure-for-measure-english (Dir. Dominic Dromgoole rent/buy) https://youtu.be/uaWyB5epNGE (Texas Shakespeare Festival - free) Continue reading

RemarkaBULL Podversation https://www.redbulltheater.com/cuccioli-robins-podversation EXPLORING ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA WITH ROBERT CUCCIOLI AND LAILA ROBINS LIVESTREAM Monday, March 1, 2021 Continue reading

Links related to Terence & The Woman from Andros Red River Theatre's production of Girl from Andros (viewed in class) https://youtu.be/-8ZSmq1Tf6Y Machiavelli's Andria and the Yale production (viewed a clip in class) https://amzn.to/3dpPxeD https://books.google.com/books?id=s9RveENMTIEC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=machiavelli+andria&source=bl&ots=xcetF-DWy2&sig=ACfU3U24GLPIuqJ7UHIQPRBzGK2kHO38ZQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwits5bH0vPuAhVrF1kFHduNAykQ6AEwCHoECA8QAw#v=onepage&q=machiavelli%20andria&f=false https://youtu.be/xlG_cq3mi2I https://collegearts.yale.edu/events/shows-screenings/girl-andros https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2012/04/18/first-time-machiavelli-translation-debuts-at-yale/ Thornton Wilder's novel... Continue reading

To follow up on and anticipate our discussions of theater is a selection of links: Orphic Hymn to Dionysus https://youtu.be/TD5zbXREo4w The Chorus https://youtu.be/MlXi8LfKv-0 https://youtu.be/quLkooLxsO4 Intro to Greek Theatre https://youtu.be/aSRLK7SogvE Greek Tragedy https://youtu.be/dSr6mP-zxUc Greek Comedy https://youtu.be/H-BvMbfkxcc From Ritual to Theatre -... Continue reading

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The play and performance Art House: Performance Of Wole Soyinka's Death & The King's Horsemen Pt 1 Art House: Performance Of Wole Soyinka's Death & The King's Horsemen Pt 2 Rufus Norris on Death and the King's Horseman DEATH OF... Continue reading

Images Lucerne grass Guinea fowl Veld Transvaal Interviews Interview with the 1991 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Nadine Gordimer, by freelance journalist Simon Stanford, 26 April 2005 Nadine Gordimer on Politics and People Warrior of the Imagination Lecture & Reading ‘Witness:... Continue reading

Library of Congress interview 1986 Lincoln Academy interview 1977 A 1967 interview with Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks reads her poems aloud (including "The Mother") Gwendolyn Brooks Reading (intro poem by Haki R. Madhubuti) "The Golden Shovel," Terrance Hayes Introduction: The... Continue reading

Film versions Go Tell It On the Mountain If Beale Street Could Talk (Trailer) Articles Slavery and Revenge, John Kerrigan James Baldwin and Chinua Achebe’s Forgotten Conversation About Beauty, Morality, and the Political Power of Art THE DAY I FINALLY... Continue reading