The basis of each seminar will be a paper presented by a student, and there will also be one or two supporting papers on more detailed topics. The plays will be studied in translation. This is the prescribed text for these four plays. The prescribed text for the other seven plays is the three-volume translation by D. Barrett and A.H. Sommerstein in the Penguin Classics series. These volumes contain more Greek than Sommerstein's commentaries, but those with little or no Greek can still learn a lot from them.
Reference is given below to one or two useful reviews.
Review by Paul Cartledge. Review by Ian Storey. Review by Ian Storey. Review by S. Douglas Olson. Reprinted in Segal, Oxford Readings , 229-51 Sommerstein, A.H. et al.