Try it!

Let's take some time during class to find scholarly sources. If you've already picked a play, do the following steps with that play in mind. If you haven't, just pick one of the plays from the list for practice (for today only).

• Skim the Wikipedia page about the play. If the play doesn't have a Wikipedia page, use Google to find other overviews of the play online.
• Look for clues that you could follow up on, such as these:
  • Citations to scholarly sources
  • Interesting words or phrases (people, places, events, concepts, etc.)
• Using Quest and/or the library databases, search for scholarly sources that match the clues.

When the time is up, we'll ask for volunteers to share interesting scholarly sources that they found.

• The Dutchman by Amiri Baraka
• Hot N' Throbbing by Paula Vogel
• Pentecost by David Edgar
• Translations by Brian Friel
• Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
• The Clown Show by Jean Genet
• RUR by Karel Čapek
• The Color of Justice by Richard Norton Taylor
• Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
• For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf by Ntozake Shange
• The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill
• Machinal by Sophie Treadwell
• Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller
• Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein