Project #1: Genres U.C. San Deigo

Topdog/Underdog by Suzan-Lori Parks
Fall 2009
"A darkly comic fable of brotherly love" http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=3263

"All the unsuccessful attempts at seriousness and substantive drama render this play little more than a joke itself" http://talkinbroadway.com/ob/7_26_01.html

Seven Against Thebes By Aeschylus
Spring 2010
"Aeschylus could count on his audience knowing the story depicted in the tragedy without his having to fill in a lot of details." http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-sevenagainstthebes/intro.html

"A superb rescue of a powerful Athenian tragedy" http://www.amazon.com/Seven-Against-Thebes-Tragedy-Translations/dp/0195070070

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard
Fall 2008
"Tom Stoppard's surreal comedy " http://www.ericdsnider.com/theater/rosencrantz-guildenstern-are-dead/

"From Shakespearean tragedy to absurdist comedy" http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/203/artsbooks/6017/a_perfect_hamlet.html;jsessionid=C8AF585D2BB0DD3D47509667F7EAEE3F

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman
Fall 2008
"Superb Portrait of a Tragedy" http://www.easthamptonstar.com/dnn/Arts/LaramieProjectSuperbPortraitofaTragedy/tabid/11198/Default.aspx

"was built around the vivid onstage presence of Wilde, the central players in the tragedy" http://theater.nytimes.com/mem/theater/treview.html?res=9f0de2de143af93aa25756c0a9669c8b63

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
Spring 2009
"Woyzeck exists almost as a genre in itself, which some have labeled 'psychological realism.'" http://www.gradesaver.com/woyzeck/study-guide/about/

"However, Woyzeck is undoubtedly a Tragedy" http://www.oppapers.com/essays/What-Is-The-Genre-Of-Woyzeck/260093

Buried Child by Sam Shepard
Fall 2007
"Pulitzer Prize-winning family drama" http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/buried_child.html

"Sam Shepard’s voice in modern drama" http://www.scena.org/blog/newswire/2009/01/buried-child-at-segal-centre.html

Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Winter 2007
"Comedy" http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/twelfthnight/facts.html

"falls under the classification of a romantic comedy" http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/37376.html

Skin of Our Teeth by Thornton Wilder
Fall 2007
"as a genuine comedy should be." http://www.enotes.com/skin-our

"invaluable cornerstone of modern American drama" http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-skinourteeth/intro.html

The Misanthrope by Molière
Winter 2009
"The Misanthrope is more subdued than in Molière's other comedies" http://www.sparknotes.com/drama/misanthrope/context.html

"One of the masterpieces of comic theatre" http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1607

Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
Fall 2009
"A strange and disturbing drama" http://www.dramatists.com/cgi-bin/db/single.asp?key=1756

"expressionistic and allegorical drama Camino Real" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80627