Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" (a dramatized version of the story) 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CpaF9Wa1R4&feature=related  (Part two -- about ten minutes)

ONLINE RESOURCES FOR DOCUMENTING SOURCES

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/trifles.htm  Online version of the play

http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/glaspell.html.  Information about Susan Glaspell (1876-1948)

Susan Glaspell is considered to be a regional writer, with roots in Iowa.  After she married, she moved east. She and her husband helped found the modern movement in American drama with their involvement with the Province town players (a group of people living in the Cape Cod area who began their own theatre).  

http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110tech/Theater.html. This website provides an introduction to Greek Theater. It includes a timeline, origins and other information about Greek drama.

http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/sophocles/antigone.htm   Here is an online version of the play.

Antigone video online -- You tube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGT24uYPb2Y&feature=related

Antigone by Sophocles (1984 TV) Juliet Stevenson (part 1/11). Part one – the two sisters talk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t905daTGui4&feature=related

Part two -- the chorus and the King

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0c99l535PY&feature=related

Part five – the son pleads with his father for the life of his lover (Antigone)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OG9wz9DP_QA&feature=related

The conversation between the King and his son continues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpbPx5tM2pE&feature=related

Part nine – the wise old man confronts the King about his pride

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

Part ten – the queen hears the messenger’s account of finding the dead lovers in the cave

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0CwtefnAsI&feature=related

The broken father (the King) mourns his dead son, only to learn that his wife, the queen, has just killed herself in the next room. As he gets this news, the chorus solemnly chants

http://www.cummingsstudyguides.net/xHamlet.html#Hamlet  The Cummings study guide – Hamlet. “Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is a tragedy. A tragedy is a dignified work in which the main character undergoes a struggle and suffers a downfall. In Shakespeare's plays, the main character of a tragedy is usually a person of noble heritage. A flaw in his personality, sometimes abetted by fate, brings about his downfall. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark is also sometimes characterized as a revenge play in the tradition of the Roman playwright Seneca (4 B.C.-65 A.D.)”

http://www.stickfigurehamlet.com/act1/scene2/page01.html  A stick figure version of the play with key dialogue. The artist creates a new panel a couple of times a week and is almost done with the play.  This is not a substitute for reading the play, of course, but would be a great tool for sharing the play with visual learners, children or people with ESL backgrounds.

http://www.william-shakespeare.info/quotes-quotations-play-hamlet.htm  A site with a list of famous quotes from the play.  Here are just a couple:

"To be, or not to be: that is the question". Hamlet quote (Act III, Sc. I).
"Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry". Hamlet quote Act I, Sc. III).
"This above all: to thine own self be true" Hamlet quote (Act I, Sc. III).
"The lady doth protest too much, methinks". Hamlet ( Quote Act III, Sc. II). 
Sc. II).

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/corhans.htm  -- Lorraine Hansberry -- biographical information

 http://www.raisinonbroadway.com/ -- Official website of the Broadway play

http://town.hall.org/radio/HarperAudio/355_harp_00_ITH.html -- Audio clips from Harper Collins

http://monkeynotes.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmRaisinSun03.asp -- Notes

First, Tennessee Williams – southern writer. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar named Desire, and Glass Menagerie

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWsG_Qj1wUo

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – trailer from the 1958 movie starring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPCj0TJHMpg&feature=related

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Part 1/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xw5Hi1EZeE&feature=related

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (part 10/10) exchange between big brother and sister in law and Maggie (Elizabeth Taylor’s character), and then a conversation between father (big Daddy) and son (Maggie’s husband, Brick) down in the basement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu0YmE41fg8&feature=related

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof “Lock the door!” Ending to the movie

 A Streetcar Named Desire

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMWdvWR_Z28&feature=related

A streetcar named Desire – part one. The movie, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh (from Gone with the Wind fame)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Streetcar_Named_Desire

Wikipedia article

 The Glass Menagerie

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumagAF4nU8

Movie version starring Katherine Hepburn and Sam Waterston. 1973

Tennessee Williams' The Glass Menagerie (Broadway Theatre Archive) (1973)

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

Scene between mother and son

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Williams

Bio of the playwright

The "mad heroine" theme that appeared in many of his plays seemed clearly influenced by the life of Williams' sister Rose. Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

Characters in his plays are often seen as representations of his family members. Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie was understood to be modeled on Rose. Some biographers believed that the character of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire is also based on her, as well as Williams himself. Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie was generally seen to represent Williams' mother. Characters such as Tom Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar named Desire both included references to elements of Williams' life such as homosexuality, mental instability and alcoholism.

Second, Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman (in our textbook).

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller

Arthur Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre and cinema for over 61 years, writing a wide variety of dramas, including celebrated plays such as The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, All My Sons, and Death of a Salesman, which are studied and performed worldwide.^[1] Miller was often in the public eye, most famously for refusing to give evidence against others to the House Un-American Activities Committee, being the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama among countless other awards, and for his marriage to Marilyn Monroe. Miller is considered by audiences and scholars as one of America's greatest playwrights and his plays are lauded throughout the world.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2w_0NUtC4&feature=related

Death of a Salesman – with Dustin Hoffman and John Malkovich

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDVr3sW2fUc&feature=related

short collage of clips of Dustin Hoffman as Willy Loman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh2w_0NUtC4&feature=related

part 14 – confrontation between Biff and his father, brother

This version was made into a movie in 1985: starring Dustin Hoffman, Kate Reid, John Malkovich, Stephen Lang and Charles Durning. It was directed by Volker Schlöndorff.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_salesman

Article

 Third – Henrik Ibsen and A Doll House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4UQh6PaH80

A Doll's House, Christopher Plummer & Julie Harris (Act I-2)

TV production from 1959: a live drama

 Someone created a playlist of the whole play (12 videos) here:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...