English Literary Theme Course

  • William Shakespeare, Othello

    • 30’s-40’s Broadway production, Paul Robeson as Othello, successful
    • 1982 James Earl Jones
    • 1997 Patrick Stewart as white Othello in all black cast
    • 1995 Laurence Fishburn as Othello
    • 1952 Orson Welles
    • 1965 Olivier
  • Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

    Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816)
  • Anne Brontê, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

    Agnes Grey
  • E. M. Forster, Maurice (Published 1971)

    Room with a view 1908
    Howard's End 1910
    Maurice 1913 (published 1971)
    Passage to India 1924
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston

  • Dorothy Sayers, Busman's Honeymoon

    BH
  • Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere

    The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book.