T C 357: Comedy, Ancient and Modern
Unique number 41090
Spring, 2005,
Timothy Moore

Videos, DVDs, and Recordings

The following videos, dvds, and recordings of or related to the works we will study this semester are available in the UT libraries. I encourage you to take advantage of these resources. We will also regularly watch and listen to these works in class and in special sessions.

Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors
VIDCASS 2399 UGL AV Collection Reserves (BBC production)
DVD 436 UGL AV Collection Reserves (BBC production)
VIDCASS 245 Fine Arts Library (UT production)

Rodgers and Hart, The Boys from Syracuse
Several phono disks of cast recordings are available by request at the Fine Arts Library Circulation Desk. Check UTNetCAT. The folks at Fine Arts are working on digitizing one of these albums for us. More later.

Aristophanes, Birds
VIDCASS 6202 UGL Audio Visual Collection (Excerpts)
CASSTTE 3888 NO.8 CASSETTE UGL Audio Visual Collection (the entire play read in Ancient Greek!)

Aristophanes, Lysistrata
VIDCASS 6200 UGL AV Collection Reserves (UT production)
VIDCASS 3175 Fine Arts Library (A production in Modern Greek)
COMPACT DISC MU 24,448 Fine Arts Library (songs inspired by Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae by composer Giannis Markopoulos)

Terence, The Brothers
VIDCASS 10,434 UGL Audio Visual Collection (a production done by Vassar College)

Japanese Kyôgen
VIDCASS 6270 UGL Audio Visual Collection (a Japanese production with English subtitles of Busu, or The Delicious Poison)

The Wakefield Second Shepherds' Play
VIDCASS 9229 Fine Arts Library (a documentary on the history of medieval drama, including excerpts from this play)
VIDCASS 6562 Fine Arts Library (examines the pageants performed in York)
VIDCASS 6560 Fine Arts Library (documentary on the origins of liturgical drama)

The Three Cuckolds
VIDCASS 6186 UGL Audio Visual Collection (Presents scenes from Carlo Gozzi's The Green Bird to demonstrate the characteristic movements and gestures of commedia dell'arte).

Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew
VIDCASS 1233 UGL AV Collection Reserves (Hollywood version with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor)
VIDCASS 2425 Parts1-3 UGL AV Collection Reserves (BBC production)
VIDCASS 2179 UGL AV Collection Reserves (Excerpts from a production in Central Park with Meryl Streep and Raoul Julia)

Molière, The Bourgeois Gentleman
MOVIE 11,242 REELS 1-3 UGL Audio Visual Storage - REQUEST AT UGL AUDIO VISUAL DESK (French production)
VIDCASS 6236 UGL AV Collection Reserves (production by the Comèdie Française)

Molière, Tartuffe
VIDCASS 1502 VIDCASS Fine Arts Library ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK (UT Production)
DVD 2210 UGL AV Collection Reserves (Silent Film)
VIDDISC 231 Fine Arts Library (Royal Shakespeare Company)
VIDCASS 9087 Fine Arts Library (Circle in the Square)

Congreve, The Way of the World
VIDCASS 3527 Fine Arts Library (Miami-Dade Community College and BBC)

Beaumarchais, The Barber of Seville
VIDCASS 177 Parts 1-2 UGL AV Collection Reserves (New City Opera production of Rossini's operatic adaptation of the play)
VIDCASS 1923 VIDCASS Fine Arts Library ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK (Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Rossini's operatic adaptation of the play)
DVD 1362 UGL AV Collection Reserves (Netherlands Opera production of Rossini's operatic adaptation of the play)

Beaumarchais, The Marriage of Figaro
VIDCASS 7033 UGL AV Collection Reserves=VIDCASS 814 Fine Arts Library ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK (Glyndebourne Festival Opera production of Mozart's operatic adaptation of the play)
VIDCASS 5941 vols.1-2 Fine Arts Library ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK (University of Texas Opera Theatre production of Mozart's operatic adaptation of the play)

Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance
DVD 3051 Fine Arts Library ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK (New York Shakespeare Festival production)
VIDCASS 8366 Fine Arts Library ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK= DVD 2112, now in the Fine Arts Library Fine Arts Library Exhibit Case (London production)
VIDDISC 20 Fine Arts Library ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK (Hollywood film featuring Linda Ronstadt, Angela Lansbury and Kevin Kline)

Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
PHNDISC S 65 UGL Audio Visual Collection (audio recording of a production)
DVD 789 UGL Audio Visual Collection=VIDDISC 413 UGL AV Collection Reserves (1952 Film featuring Michael Redgrave)

15 Mary Chase, Harvey
VIDCASS 3626 UGL AV Collection Reserves (Hollywood film featuring James Stewart)

The Marx Brothers, Duck Soup
UGL VIDCASS 3463

Billy Wilder, Some Like it Hot
UGL VIDCASS 3081