| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. (1966/7) | Watch the film of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (dir. Tom Stoppard) |
| 3 | Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. (1966/7) (cont.) | Report on Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead in relation to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot |
| 4 | Stoppard. The Real Inspector Hound. (1969/70) | Watch the film of The Importance of Being Earnest |
| 5 | Stoppard. Travesties. (1975) | Response essay 1 |
| 6 | Stoppard. Travesties. (1975) (cont.) | Reports on James Joyce, Dadaism, and Lenin |
| 7 | Churchill. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. (1976) | |
| 8 | Churchill. Light Shining in Buckinghamshire. (1976) (cont.) | Report on The Levellers (drawing on the historical work of Christopher Hill) |
| 9 | Churchill. Cloud 9. (1979/84 rev. version) | Response essay 2 |
| 10 | Churchill. Cloud 9. (1979/84 rev. version) (cont.) | Report on British colonialism in Africa and Ireland. Report on Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish |
| 11 | Churchill. Top Girls. (1982) | Response essay 3
Watch the video of Top Girls |
| 12 | Churchill. Top Girls. (1982) (cont.) | Report on feminist performance theory |
| | Work on essay |
| 13 | Stoppard. The Real Thing. (1982) | Report on John Ford's Tis Pity She's a Whore |
| 14 | Churchill. Serious Money. (1987) | Five-page essay due |
| 15 | Churchill. Serious Money. (1987) (cont.) | |
| 16 | Stoppard. Hapgood. (1988) | |
| 17 | Stoppard. Hapgood. (1988) (cont.) | |
| 18 | Churchill. Mad Forest. (1990) | Paper abstract/prospectus/outline due
Report on twentieth-century Romanian political history |
| 19 | Churchill. Mad Forest. (1990) (cont.) | |
| 20 | Stoppard. Arcadia. (1993) | Report on George Gordon, Lord Byron, and Romanticism |
| 21 | Stoppard. Arcadia. (1993) (cont.) | Report on images of Arcadia and the history of landscape gardening (with reference to Raymond Williams' The Country and the City) |
| 22 | Stoppard. The Invention of Love. (1997) | Report on A. E. Housman's The Shropshire Lad; the criticism of Ruskin and Pater |
| 23 | Stoppard. The Invention of Love. (1997) (cont.) | Report on the homosexuality statutes and the trial of Oscar Wilde |
| 24 | Student Paper Presentations | Final paper due |