VCE English & Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• Speaking in tongues by Andrew Bovell
• Lantana - original screenplay by Andrew Bovell based upon the play, Speaking in tongues

Reviews

• Globe & Mail
• New York Times
• further reviews

Interviews

• Variety
• Globe & Mail

Further resources

• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Hippolytus by Euripides

Books in the Library

• Hippolytus in drama and myth
• Existentialism and Euripides
• Studies in Greek tragedy
• Plague and the Athenian imagination
• Gender and the city in Euripides’ political plays
• Ethical and dramatic aspects of suicide in Greek tragedy

Analysis

• Aesthetics and death
• Miasma & mimesis

Further sources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Reviews

• Daily Californian
• The Age

Analysis

• Decolonizing Othello
• I am not the meaning of a name I did not choose
• Africa as voices and vibes

Interviews

• Life, death and Desdemona

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Analysis & reviews

• Conflicts of interest
• Quest for tank man
• International relations get lost in translation
• Epic, exhilarating, exceptional

Copies of the text

• Berlin by Joanna Murray-Smith

Analysis & reviews

• The Past Is Never Dead: Joanna Murray-Smith’s Berlin
• Time-Out review

Interviews & video

• Breaking down BERLIN with writer Joanna Murray-Smith

Copies of the text

• Othello by William Shakespeare

Study guides

• Insight text guide
• Text notes
• Student’s guide
• A critical study of Othello

In print critiques

• Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human
• Othello: new critical essays
• Othello: a guide to the play
• Shakespeare in performance, then and now
• Further books 

Ebooks

• Othello Shakespeare for students 

Analysis

• Bell Shakespeare [external site]
• Bartleby literature guide [external site]

Further resources

• New Oxford Shakespeare
• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

In print critiques

• A companion to Shakespeare
• Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human
• Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare’s comedies
• Women and revenge in Shakespeare

Analysis

• Viola as actor/author in Twelfth Night
• Gender trouble in Twelfth Night
• Comic revenge in Twelfth Night

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources 
• SLV catalogue

Resources at the library:

• Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov
  • also ebook and sound recording

Reviews

• Back Stage West
• Times Literary Suppliment

Analysis

• Dramatic structure in Chekov's Uncle Vanya
• Some aspects of Chekov's dramaturgy
• Uncle Vanya
• Uncle Vanya: Overview

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Reviews

• Theatre Journal
• Windy City Times
• The Guardian (external site)

Analysis

• Reformulating Freedom: Slavery, Alienation and Ambivalence in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (external site)
• "Say Yes": Consent, Marriage, and History in the Drama and Fiction of Suzan-Lori Parks
• Bartleby literature guide (external site)

Video

• Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) - Q&A (external site)

Interviews

• Meet the maker: Suzan Lori-Parks

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV Catalogue