VCE English and EAL, English Language, and Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Reviews

• Dougherty, L. R. (2015). [Review of Father comes home from the wars Theatre Journal, 67(3), 560–563.
• Sullivan, C. (2018, June 13). Father Comes Home from the Wars, Parts 1, 2, & 3. Windy City Times, 33(39), 24.
• Taylor, P. (2016). Father comes home from the wars (parts 1, 2 & 3), royal court, review: 'immensely arresting and impressive piece of work'. London: Independent (newspaper).

Analysis

• Guerrero, Paula Barba. Reformulating Freedom: Slavery, Alienation and Ambivalence in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3  Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media,  n. 2, p. 42-60, dec. 2018. ISSN 2585-3538.
• Severs, J. (2014).  "Say Yes": Consent, Marriage, and History in the Drama and Fiction of Suzan-Lori Parks The Review of Contemporary Fiction, 34(1), 178+.
• Bartleby literature guide (external site)

Video

• Father Comes Home From The Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3) - A Q&A with playwright Suzan-Lori Parks. (Youtube 32 minutes)(external site)

Interviews

• - Smart, J. (2014). Meet the maker: Suzan Lori-Parks  "father comes home from the wars (parts 1, 2, & 3)". Back Stage, 55(44), 48.

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV Catalogue

Analysis & reviews

• Brock, O. (2013). Conflicts of interest. TLS. Times Literary Supplement, (5750), 18.
• Evans, L. (2013, August 31). Quest for tank man  Spectator, 322(9653), 44+.
• International relations get lost in translation (2016, April 2). Globe & Mail
• Spencer, C. (2013, August 16). Epic, exhilarating, exceptional Daily Telegraph [London, England], 26.

Copies of the text

• Berlin by Joanna Murray-Smith

Analysis & reviews

• Brindley, Michael  The Past Is Never Dead: Joanna Murray-Smith’s Berlin Stage Whispers (online, retrieved 19/10/23)
• Byrne, Tim (23 April 2021) Review Time out
   

Interviews & video

• Bergman, Gabi (20 April, 2021) Breaking down BERLIN with writer Joanna Murray-Smith AussieTheatre (online, retrieved 19/10/23)

Copies of the text

• Rostand, Edmond  Cyrano de Bergerac : a Heroic Comedy in Five Acts
  • note our library holds a range of translations both in print and as eBooks but we don't hold the Anthony Burgess translation

Overviews & summaries

• Moss, Joyce, and George Wilson.(1997)  Overview: Cyrano de Bergerac Literature and Its Times:, Gale,
• Overview: Cyrano de Bergerac. (1993) Characters in 19th-Century Literature, edited by Kelly King Howes, Gale, . Gale Literature Resource Center,

Critiques

• Lamm, M. (1991). The First Symbolists. (K. Elliott, Trans.). In P. Kepos (Ed.), Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism (Vol. 37). Gale. (Reprinted from Modern Drama, pp. 152-178, 1953, Philosophical Library)
• Freeman, E. (1999). Cyrano de Bergerac: Mythopoeia Triumphant. In L. J. Trudeau (Ed.), Drama Criticism (Vol. 10). Gale. (Reprinted from Cyrano de Bergerac, pp. 21-47, 1995, University of Glasgow French and German Publications)

Resources at the library:

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

Reviews

• Eliason, J. A. (2002, May 2). Uncle Vanya at the Met Theatre. Back Stage West, 9(18), 18.
• Aslanyan, A. (2020). The estate of the country: A timeless play animated by current concerns. TLS. Times Literary Supplement, (6099), 19.

Analysis

• Bordinat, P. (1999). Dramatic structure in Chekov's Uncle Vanya Slavic and East European Journal, 1958, 16, 195-210
• Corrigan, R. W. (1955). Some aspects of Chekov's dramaturgy  Educational Theatre Journal, 7(2), 107–114.
• Judd, E. (n.d.) Uncle Vanya. In Drama for Students. Gale.
• McVay, G. (1995). Uncle Vanya: Overview.  In Reference Guide to World Literature (2nd ed.). St. James Press.

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

• Harmon, Joshua Elias. Admissions  Directed by Gary Abrahams. Southbank, Victoria: Melbourne Theatre Company, 2022. 
  • This is a programme that includes an essay and interviews.

Reviews

• Wallenberg, C. (2019, Oct 24). In Joshua Harmon's 'Admissions,' white guilt collides with white privilege. Boston Globe
• Teeman, T. (2018, March 13). This is what white middle-class race hypocrisy looks like: Review of ‘Admissions’: Joshua Harmon’s comedy drama ‘Admissions’ takes a sharp scalpel to the college admissions process, to reveal the racism lurking in plain view in the most liberal white household. The Daily Beast
• Feingold, M. (2018, April 9). Joshua Harmon’s Admissions finds satire in the quest for academic diversity. The Village Voice

Interviews

• Unpacking Admissions with the cast and director Melbourne Theatre Company (external site)

Copies of the text

• Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

In print critiques

• Kastan, David Scott. A companion to Shakespeare MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
• Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: the Invention of the Human  New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.
• Penny. Gay Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare’s comedies  Cambridge University Press, 2008.
• Tassi, Marguerite A. Women and revenge in Shakespeare Pa: Susquehanna University Press, 2011.

   

Analysis

• Kietzman, M. J. (2012). Will personified: Viola as actor/author in Twelfth Night Criticism, 54(2), 257–289.
• Charles, C. (1997).Gender trouble in Twelfth Night Theatre Journal, 49(2), 121–141.
• Madelaine, R. (2012). Comic revenge in Twelfth Night Parergon, 29(1), 71+

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources 
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

eBooks

• Shakespeare, William (2000) As You Like It. 1st ed. Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group, (eBook)
• New Oxford Shakespeare (complete works)

Print

• The Library holds many print items of the text

Video

• As You Like It [videorecording] (2007) Adapted for the Screen and Directed by Kenneth Branagh. New York: HBO Video,
• As You Like It (Shakespeare's Globe, 2009) Performance can be streamed through our Naxos Video Library

Overviews

• Explanation of: 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare (2009) LitFinder Contemporary Collection, Gale,
• As You Like It."(2006) Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Michelle Lee, vol. 100, Gale

Analysis

• Ford, John R. The Condition of My Estate: Conjuring Identity and Estrangement in As You Like It Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Michael L. LaBlanc, vol. 80, Gale, 2004. (Originally published in Upstart Crow, vol. 18, 1998, pp. 56-66).
• Stanton, Kay. Remembering Patriarchy in As You Like It. (2022) Shakespearean Criticism, edited by Rebecca Parks, vol. 203, Gale (Originally published in Shakespeare, edited by Ronald Dotterer, Susquehanna UP, 1989, pp. 139-149)