Study Guide for Midterm -- pt. 1 -- EN 190 -- Summer II 2012

Above is an image from the Orange Tree Theatre (UK)'s evening of short plays by Susan Glaspell.  For more information about this production, see these links:

http://www.orangetreetheatre.co.uk/Archive/index.asp?id={9D6F875A-DD54-41B7-BC4F-0F3EC5413B54}&year=2008

http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/apr/09/theatre

But more importantly, which readings/viewings will be on our midterm (July 27)?

Death of a Salesman -- text, DVD of 1985 production, and the following clips:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brdbM9YSCq4 (2000, with Brian Dennehy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnTqlxajQ5Q (1996, BBC, with Warren Mitchell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nYKpvtYPG4 (2008, DC's own Arena Stage)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJNaEDrtjug (2009, with Charles S. Dutton)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPnEFZJafjE (2008, with Avery Brooks)

Trifles -- text and the following clips  

Below are links to the videos we watched.  If you have more patience with opera, you may start here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTIZ5TL1vaQ

Otherwise, these are the movies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpNuw0vFU5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9EPnf1WXSE&feature=related

"A Jury of Her Peers" is here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izSqRdOdCuo

Here is one clip from one version of Sophie Treadwell's Machinal:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hikCYLzkYA

"Godfather Death" -- text  http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/grimm044.html
and the following clip  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG0P3W_Pgps

"Love in L.A."

"Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"

"The House on Mango Street"

"Everyday Use"

"Why I Live at the P.O." -- http://art-bin.com/art/or_weltypostoff.html

Bright Lights, Big City -- http://books.google.com/books?id=_c8nKqDTgFkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=bright+lights+big+city&source=bl&ots=B61NPPorXc&sig=d9A643s3lw08yauowiaBy7vum_s&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gZQIUPTuDuH20gGq2cXrAw&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=bright%20lights%20big%20city&f=false

I wouldn't mind living at the Gulfport, MS P.O. below!

 Readings continue below:

"Hills Like White Elephants"

"The Things They Carried"

"Bad Neighbors"

"The Lesson"

"This is What It Means to Say Phoenix, Arizona"

"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven"

"The Christmas Pies"

Here are clips from Smoke Signals that we watched:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwcJaUaVfR0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPnV2392Tck

We also watched the following video of a Native American storyteller:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guu0EflnQPI