ENGL 308
Tragic Stages
Spring 2017
Division I
Cross-listed
THEA 310
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Class Details
The earliest surviving tragedies were composed for Athens’ theater of Dionysus. Performed as part of a religious festival, they played on an outdoor stage that seated 12,000 spectators. When tragedy was revived some 2000 years later, it addressed itself to a new audience. The gods were dispatched. Choruses and masks dropped away in favor of sword fights and pig’s blood. In this course we will consider both tragedy’s invention and its reinvention. What happens when human suffering, once staged for ritual purposes, becomes a subject of mass entertainment? Works will include plays by Sophocles, Euripides, Seneca, Marlowe, Shakespeare, and Racine.
The Class:
Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 15
Class#: 3272
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Limit: 20
Expected: 15
Class#: 3272
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
papers and short exercises
Extra Info:
may not be taken on a pass/fail basis; not available for the fifth course option
Prerequisites:
a 100-level ENGL course, or a score of 5 on the AP English Literature exam, or a score of 6 or 7 on the Higher Level IB English exam
Enrollment Preferences:
English majors
Distributions:
Division I
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENGL 308 Division I THEA 310 Division I
ENGL 308 Division I THEA 310 Division I
Attributes:
ENGL Literary Histories A
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ENGL 308 - 01 (S) SEM Tragic Stages
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