Chekhov,
Anton
Books:
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy trans by Pevear
Daily Life Under the Last Czar, by Henri Troyet
Chekhov by Troyet
Chekhov’s
Plays: An Opening into Eternity
Reading Chekhov by Janet Malcom
Land of
the Firebird
The Empire’s New Clothes
Russian Landscape
The Russian Century
Stella Adler on Chekhov Ibsen and Strindberg
Letters
from the Moscow Art Theater
My Life in Art
Danchenko’s book on Theater
????
The Hero of Our Time by Lermontov (particularly for Solyony)
Chekhov
Short Stories, particularly:
In the Ravine
On
Official Duty
The Bride
Life on a Russian Country Estate by Roosevelt
Summerfolk History of the Russian Dacha
Plays:
A Month in the Country by Turgenev
Art:
Painting
by Levitan, Shishkin, The Wanderers
Film:
Unfinished
Piece for a Player Piano
Anton Chekhov the BBC Series
Russia Land of the
Czars
The Barber of Siberia (for military references)
Dark Eyes
Websites:
Visit You Tube and enter Anton Chekhov
http://www.alexanderpalace.org/
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
http-//ancientfaithradio.com/.webloc
http-//www.russianorthodoxchurch.ws/english/.webloc
http-//www.3saints.com/.webloc
http-//www.alexanderpalace.org/.webloc
http-//www.benya.com/cyrillic/.webloc
http-//www.eilatgordinlevitan.com.webloc
http-//www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/gorskii.html.webloc
http-//www.nycathedral.org/home.html.webloc
Ibsen, Henrick
On Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov by Stella Adler
Keeping Christmas by Stokker
Ibsen by Clurman
Ibsen’s Women by Joan Templeton
The
Ibsen Cycle by Johnston
A Thing or Two about Ibsen
Ibsen by Michael Meyer
Living in Norway
The Correspondence of Henrick Ibsen
Hedda
Gabler: A Sourcebook
The Quintessence of Ibsenism by Shaw
Music:
Greig Peer Gynt
Greig Piano Concerto
Art:
Harriet Becker
Hammershoi
Edvard Munch
Christian Krohg
Film:
Edvard Munch by Peter Watkins
Websites:
www.ibsen.net
www.ibsenmuseet.com
travel sites of Oslo, Bergen and Norway
Miller, Arthur
Arthur Miller in an Hour
Moliere
Arianne Mnouchkine's film Moliere
Odets, Clifford
Websites:
http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade30.html
Books:
Clifford Odets by Margaret Gibson
The
Fervent Years by Harold Clurman
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities by Delmore Schwartz
Film:
Reds Starring Warren Beatty
Frances starring
Jessica Lange
The Changeling starring Angelina Jolie
The Cinderella Man
starring Russell Crowe
O’Neill, Eugene
Television:
Eugene O’Neill PBS Documentary
Moon for the Misbegotten starring Jason
Robards and Colleen Dewhurst (PBS)
Books:
Letters of Eugene O’Neill
by Travis Bogard
books by Shaeffer
O’Neill by Arthur and Barbara
Gelb
Performing O’Neill
Film:
Reds starring
Warren Beatty
John Wayne film of Sea Plays was his favorite
Anna Christie
at NYPL TOFT starring Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson
Restoration Comedy
Simon Callow's Acting in Restoration Comedy
Acting in Light
Comedy by Maria Aitken
Films:
Stage Beauty
Cassanova
The Libertine
George Bernard Shaw
| Manners for Men by Mrs Humphrys Manners for Women by Mrs Humphrys
Mrs Bretton’s Book of Household Management Etiquette
by Emily Post Habits of
Good Society (1859) History
of Mistresses by Elizabeth Abott A Social History of Tea by Jane Pettigrew Victorians at Home and Abroad by Paul Atterbury Theatre and Fashion Oscar Wilde and the Suffragettes What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew The Victorians by A. N. Wilson The Victorian Underworld Dinner is Served by Arthur Inch The Victorian House by Judith Flanders The Victorian Woman by Suzanne Cooper |
| One hundred Practical Hints for the Amateur by Lady Benson |
| Photohistorica Landmarks
in Photography |
|
A Country Camera Fashion in Photographs 1860-1880, 1880-1900,
1900-1920, 1920-1940 Getty Images 1900’s, 1910’s,
1920’s A Cockney Camera by Gordon Winter Shire Albums (a series of books) of note: Motoring Costume, Shaving,
Schoolroom Echoes from an Edwardian Album by Colin
Gordon also known as A Richer Dust Time Life Books
Edwardian Album by Nicholas Bentley |
|
Television Programs of the Period: |
| | Any
Jane Austen mini-series | Brideshead Revisited
| | Barchester Chronicles
| |
| Middlemarch | | | Films |
| | Victorian-Edwardian | Edwardian-Post War |
| Room with a View | Remains of the Day | Period Authors:
|
| Late Victorian-Edwardian Oscar Wilde
Marcel Proust Evelyn Waugh Edith Wharton Henry James |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald Vita Sackville-West Virginia
Woolf |
| The Great Gatsby Becoming Colette
Carrington Gosford Park A Passage to India The Governess Enchanted April August The Hours
|
Shepard, Sam
Film:
This So Called Disaster
(a documentary on the rehearsal of Late Henry Moss)
Williams, Tennessee
Tom
Memoirs by Tennessee Williams
Plantations (Natchez)
Anything by Maria St Just
Research of Clarksdale, MI where Williams lived
with his grandfather and where Moonlake Casino is located.
Film:
Tennessee
Williams South
A and E Biography of Tennessee Williams