Reading List

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(Reading material added as featured by episode.)

Apuleius, The Golden Ass

• The Golden Ass
  

Aristotle

• Poetics – Book | Gutenberg

Peter Brook

• Peter Brook, The Empty Space

Susan Cain

• Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

G. K. Chesterton

• Orthodoxy
  

 The Complete Rhyming Dictionary

• Book
  

Bernard F. Dukore

• Dramatic Theory and Criticism: Greeks to Growtowski
  

Daniel Guyton

• The Mother of God Visits Hell
  

Edith Hamilton

• Mythology

Edward Hirsch

• A Poet’s Glossary
  

Victor Hugo

• Les Miserables

Daniel Kahneman

• Thinking Fast and Slow
  

C. S. Lewis

• The Weight of Glory
  

Kristin Linklater

• Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice
  

Lin-Manuel Miranda

• Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution (Collected lyrics)

 Laura Pittenger

• The HVAC Plays (Or, Adventures in Living Without Basic Necessities, Like Heat and Air Conditioning) by Laura Pittenger
  

Sir Terry Pratchett

• A Hat Full of Sky
  
• Sourcery
  

William Shakespeare

• William Shakespeare, As You Like It
• William Shakespeare, Hamlet
• William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor
• William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing
  
• William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure
  
• William Shakespeare, Richard II
  
• William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
• William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew

Lemony Snicket

• Lemony Snicket
• The Unauthorized Autobiography
• A Series of Unfortunate Events

Emily C. A. Snyder

• Cupid and Psyche
  • Love and Death Trilogy
  • “Bad Quarto” (Workshop Production), 2009

 

• The Merry Widows of Windsor on New Play Exchange
  • “The Merry Widows of Windsor: Rewriting Shakespeare in the Light of #MeToo,” O Beauty Unattempted!
  • “My Digital Couch: A Conversation with Renaissance Woman Emily C. A. Snyder,” Zelda Knapp, A Work Unfinishing

• Pop Feminist Articles
  • “The Failure of Adults: What A Series of Unfortunate Events Gets Right”
  • “A Series of Unfortunate Events is Anything But"
    

• “Here,” a Dasein audio poem
• “Still Smarting: Women, Shakespeare, and Processing Emotion” from HowlRound
• “The Modern Melancholy Danes: A Comparison of Kierkegaard and Hamlet” on an absurdly old website from Y2K
  

Stephen Sondheim

• Finishing the Hat
  

Stuart Spencer

• The Playwright’s Guidebook
  

Rosalind Wiseman

• Queen Bees and Wannabes, Rosalind Wiseman