RLFR 326
Molière in Performance Spring 2017
Division I
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Like Shakespeare, the work of France’s greatest playwright is less a timeless monument than a living body perpetually in motion. This course offers a dual approach to the theater of Molière. The first half of the semester will focus on readings and analysis of printed plays in the context of the seventeenth century. The second half of the semester focuses on a collective project that combines student research and performance of a single play. Possible worsk: Les Femmes savantes, L’Ecole des femmes, Le Misanthrope, L’Avare, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme. Throughout the semester, we will explore the dynamic relationships between tradition and innovation, elite and popular culture, actors and audience, past and present. Conducted in French.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 20
Class#: 3736
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: active class participation, one presentation, two short papers, final performance project and accompanying final paper
Prerequisites: French 201, 202, or 203, or by placement test, or by permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: French, Comparative Literature, Theater, and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies majors, and those with compelling justification for admission
Distributions: Division I

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