Plays and selections from the Wilson and Goldfarb text (listed below as W & G) must be read before the class period in which they will be discussed.
1/31 Introduction to Course
2/2 Theatre History and the Artist
2/4 Group Meetings
2/7 Theatre History and the Scholar
2/9 The Spanish Golden Age (W & G Ch. 7)
2/11 The Spanish Golden Age
2/14 Fuente Ovejuna
2/16 Fuente Ovejuna
2/18 Fuente Ovejuna
2/21 Japanese Theatre: Noh (W & G pp. 96 - 100)
2/23 Atsumori & Izutsu
2/25 Noh performance workshop (wear movement clothes & socks)
10 am class meet in 3057
11 am class meet in 3058
2/28 Kabuki & Bunraku (W & G pp. 100-108)
3/2 The Love Suicides at Amiima & Shunkan on Devil Island
3/4 Group Presentation: Noh
3/7 Group Presentation: Kabuki & Bunraku (paper proposal due 9 am)
3/9 French Neoclassical Theatre (W & G Ch. 8)
3/11 French Neoclassical Theatre
3/14 The Cid
3/16 Group Presentation: The Cid
3/18 Mid-Term Exam (bring blue exam book)
3/21 - 3/25 Spring Break
3/28 Versailles Impromptu (in Moliere anthology)
3/30 Tartuffe (in Moliere anthology)
4/1 No class meeting - Theatre Department Advising Day
4/4 Tartuffe
4/6 Group Presentation: Tartuffe
4/8 Restoration Theatre (W & G Ch. 9)
4/11 Eighteenth Century Theatre (W & G Ch. 10)
4/13 Eighteenth Century Theatre
4/15 School for Scandal
4/18 Group Presentation: School for Scandal
4/20 Early Nineteenth Century Theatre (W & G Ch. 11)
4/22 Early Nineteenth Century Theatre
4/25 Faust, Part One
4/27 Faust, Part One
4/29 Group Presentation: Faust, Part One
5/2 Uncle Tom's Cabin (final paper due at 9 am)
5/4 Uncle Tom's Cabin
5/6 Group Presentation: Uncle Tom's Cabin
5/9 Woyzeck
5/11 Woyzeck
5/13 Conversation with Edwin Wilson
5/16 Group Presentation: Woyzeck
Final Exam:
Section 1: 5/23 8:00 - 10:00 am
Section 2: 5/18 10:15 - 12:15 am