ENGL 234
The Modern Theatre: Plays and Performance
Last Offered Spring 2013
Division I
Cross-listed
THEA 248 / COMP 248
This course is not offered in the current catalog
Class Details
A survey of major trends in playwriting and performance practice from the late nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth. We will read major playwrights from a variety of national traditions, always considering their works in the context of evolutionary and revolutionary transformations of theatre practice. Artists and movements may include Realism and Naturalism (Stanislavsky, Antoine, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Shaw), the Epic Theatre (Brecht, Piscator), The Theatre of Cruelty (Artaud), the “Absurd,” (Beckett, Genet, Pinter) the collectivist avant-garde (Grotowski, Living Theatre, Open Theatre), and more recent playwriting.
The Class:
Format: lecture/discussion format will focus on dialectical interplay between dramatic writing and trends in acting, directing, design, theatre architecture and the actor/audience relationship
Limit: 18
Expected: 14
Class#: 3547
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Limit: 18
Expected: 14
Class#: 3547
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation:
active participation in class discussion, midterm exam, one major paper
Prerequisites:
none
Enrollment Preferences:
Theatre majors
Distributions:
Division I
Notes:
This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
THEA 248 Division I COMP 248 Division I ENGL 234 Division I
THEA 248 Division I COMP 248 Division I ENGL 234 Division I
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