HON 195
Ancient Greek and Roman Comedy
FILM ADAPTATIONS OF CLASSIC DRAMATIC COMEDY IN BAILEY-HOWE
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254–184 BCE): A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (DVD 2046), adaptation and contaminatio of Pseudolus, Braggart Warrior, and Mostellaria.
[Giovanni Boccaccio (c. 1313–1375): Decameron (Pasolini adaptation, DVD 2380). Not drama, but containing dramatic elements].
William Shakespeare (1564–1616): Comedy of Errors (VID 8). Henry IV.1 VID 4954. Twelfth Night (DVD 2363; VID 5663; VIDR 401). Also: Much Ado About Nothing (DVD 2655). Merry Wives of Windsor (DVD 2512). All’s Well that Ends Well (DVD 2364). Cymbeline (DVD 2367). Love’s Labours Lost (DVD 2091). Measure for Measure (DVD 2362). A Midsummer Night’s Dream (DVD 2361; VID 209; VID 4952). The Tempest (DVD 5152). The Taming of the Shrew (DVD 2627; VID 4951).
Molière (1622-1673): Bourgeois gentilhomme (The Would-be Gentleman, VID 6692, second tape damaged). Tartuffe (VID 6062; Vid 4431).
William Congreve (1637-1708): The Way of the World (VID 1315, slightly abridged).
William Wycherley (1640-1716): The Country Wife (VID 1316, selections only, amateur production).
John Gay (1685-1732): The Beggar’s Opera (VID 77, with Roger Daltry!). Adapted by K. Weill and Bertolt Brecht as The Three Penny Opera (VID 3871).
Pierre Carlet de Chamlain de Marivaux: Double Inconstance (Double Infidelity, VID 4971).
Pierre Auugustin Caron de Beaumarchais (1732-1799): operatic versions of The Barber of Seville (VID 104) and The Marriage of Figaro (VID 4907). Also, a very good biographic drama called Beaumarchais (VID 6483).
Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816): The School for Scandal (VID 3807).
Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (DVD 1681; DVD 2190). Lady Windermere’s Fan (DVD 2190). An Ideal Husband (DVD 2190; DVD 618).
G. B. Shaw (1856-1950): Pygmalion (DVD 1594), adapted as My Fair Lady (DVD 321). The Millionairess (DVD 878).
Alfred Jarry (1873-1907): Ubu Roi (VID 7704).
Samuel Beckett (1906–1989): Collected plays (VID 3675).
Eugene Ionesco (1909–1994): Rhinosceros (DVD 1631).