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All downloadable texts are not the versions used in the course, rather versions available to the public. Be aware that they may contain errors. See the calendar section for details of due dates for each of the below required readings.
Aristophanes. Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Clouds, the Birds, Lysistrata, the Frogs. Translated by William Arrowsmith. New York: Plume Books, 1984. ISBN: 0452007178. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)
Plautus, Titus Maccius. Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier, The Brothers Menaechmus, The Haunted House, The Pot of Gold. Translated by Erich Segal. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192838962.
Shakespeare, William. Comedy of Errors. New York: Washington Square Press, 1996. ISBN: 0671722573. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)
–––. Taming of the Shrew. New York: Washington Square Press, 1992. ASIN: 0671722891. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De. Don Quixote: The Ingenious Hidalgo De La Mancha. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. ISBN: 0142437239. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)
Moliere, Jean Baptiste Poquelin. The Misanthrope and Tartuffe. Translated by Richard Wilbur. Fort Washington, PA: Harvest Books, 1965. ISBN: 0156605171. (Download a version of the text from Bibliomania)
Behn, Aphra, and Jane Spencer. The Rover, The Feigned Courtesans, The Lucky Chance, The Emperor of the Moon. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0192834517. (Download a version of the text from the University of Adelaide Library)
Twain, Mark, and Shelley Fisher Fishkin. The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson and the Comedy of Those Extraordinary Twins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996. ASIN: 0195114159. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)
Wilde, Oscar, and Sylvan Barnet. The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. New York: Signet Book, 1988. ISBN: 0451525051. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, and Denise D. Knight. Herland, The Yellow Wall-Paper, and Selected Writings . New York: Penguin Books, 1999. ISBN: 0141180625. (Download a version of the text from Project Gutenberg)