THEA
461/561 History of Theatre and Drama: Beginnings-1600
Daily Schedule and Assignments—Fall 2004
Read the Living Theatre: A History (4th ed.; Wilson/Goldfarb), world-wide web, and playscript (including introductions and commentaries) assignments before the assigned class periods so you can relate lecture materials and so you can participate in discussions. Lectures will expand on materials from the texts and introduce additional materials. Pay close attention to illustrations in the texts and on the web. All the scripts except those marked with an asterisk (*) are in the texts ordered for the class.
W/G=Wilson and Goldfarb, Living Theatre: A History; required/recommended web sites will be added.
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TOPIC/VIDEO |
ASSIGNMENTS |
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Sept 1 |
Introduction |
Subscribe to Spelvin |
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3 |
Origins, Elements, Perspectives |
W/G vii-viii, 1-21, Glossary, Pronunciation Guide, Bibliography, Index |
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6 |
No class—Labor Day |
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8 |
Hellenic society and festivals |
W/G 22-32 |
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10 |
Hellenic theatre; Video: "Staging Classical Tragedy" |
W/G 46-53 |
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13 |
Greek tragedy; Aeschylus |
W/G 32-33, 36; Agamemnon |
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15 |
Hellenic theatre, cont.; Aristotle’s Poetics |
W/G 37-41 |
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17 |
Sophocles |
W/G 34, 41-44; Oedipus Rex |
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20 |
Cont.; possible videos: Oedipus Rex |
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22 |
Euripides |
W/G 35; The Bacchae |
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24 |
Satyr plays, Old Comedy, Aristophanes |
W/G 44-46; Lysistrata |
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27 |
Hellenistic theatre, New Comedy, Menander |
W/G 53-60 |
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29 |
Roman theatre, comedy; Plautus, Terence |
W/G 62-72; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Wedding |
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Oct 1 |
Review and/or catch-up |
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4 |
EXAM #1 (bring own paper—bluebooks preferred; character lists for the plays will be provided; no open books) |
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6 |
Roman society, festivals, drama, theatre |
W/G 76-79 |
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8 |
Video: "Staging Classical Comedy" |
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11 |
No class—Native American Day |
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13 |
Roman tragedy, Seneca, Horace |
W/G 72-75; Thyestes* |
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15 |
Popular entertainments |
W/G 79-84 |
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18 |
Medieval society, liturgical drama |
W/G 118-29 |
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20 |
No class—Julius Caesar matinee |
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22 |
Medieval theatre; Video: "The York Cycle in the Fifteenth Century" |
W/G 129-41 |
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25 |
Medieval vernacular drama, cycle plays and production |
W/G 129-41; The Second Shepherd’s Play |
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27 |
Miracles, moralities, secular theatre |
W/G 141-46; Everyman |
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29 |
Video: "The Tradition of the Performing Arts in |
W/G 86-116 |
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Nov 1 |
Italian Renaissance society and drama; Machiavelli |
W/G 148-59; Mandragola |
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3 |
Italian Renaissance theatre; Video: "The Renaissance Stage" |
W/G 164-75; POST WWW REVIEW |
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5 |
Italian Renaissance theatre (cont.); Commedia dell’arte |
W/G 159-64; TERM PAPER/REPORT TOPIC SELECTION (handed in) |
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8 |
Commedia dell’arte (cont.); Neoclassicism |
W/G 175-83; commedia scenario tba* |
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10 |
EXAM #2 |
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12 |
Elizabethan drama; Marlowe |
W/G 184-92; Doctor Faustus |
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15 |
Elizabethan theatre; Video: "Shakespeare and His Theatre: The Globe" |
W/G 197-215 |
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17 |
Elizabethan theatre |
W/G 197-215 |
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19 |
Elizabethan society and drama |
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22 |
Shakespeare |
W/G 192-97; A Midsummer Night’s Dream* |
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24 |
Shakespeare |
Henry IV, Part I* |
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26 |
No class—Thanksgiving recess |
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29 |
Shakespeare |
Hamlet* |
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Dec 1 |
Hamlet continued |
PRELIMINARY BIBL and TERM PAPER FOCUS |
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3 |
Spanish Golden Age society and theatre |
W/G 226-35, 238-46 |
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6 |
Lope Felix de Vega Carpio |
W/G 232-36; Fuente Ovejuna |
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8 |
Pedro Calderon de la Barca |
W/G 236-38; Life is a Dream |
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10 |
Review/catch-up |
TERM PAPER |
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16 |
Thursday, |
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