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THEA 143: Development of Dramatic Art II

A discussion of ideas, individuals, innovations, and trends in theatre over the past 150 years.

Tuesday, December 05, 2006

A Brief Review of Subject Matter

SUBJECT: A summary recap of the playwrights, theorists, and production work we've covered over the fall semester, 2006

Week 1 - Modernism & Postmodernism; Moulin Rouge; Melodrama
Week 2 - Melodrama & the Well-Made Play; A Doll House; Lawrence Levine on Shakespeare in America in the 19th Century (from Highbrow/Lowbrow)
Week 3 - Henrik Ibsen; Rosmersholm; The Lady from the Sea
Week 4 - Realism; August Strindberg; Miss Julie; the Preface to Miss Julie
Week 5 - Naturalism; Anton Chekhov; The Cherry Orchard; Brian Friel's Lovers
Week 6 - Expressionism; August Strindberg's The Ghost Sonata; Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape
Week 7 - Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
Week 8 - Antonin Artaud; Theatre of Cruelty and Artaudian Theory
Week 9 - Political Theatre and the Federal Theatre Project; Cradle Will Rock and Blitzstein's The Cradle Will Rock
Week 10 - Bertolt Brecht; Brechtian Theory and Practice; Galileo
Week 11 - Minimalism: Samuel Beckett's Endgame and Harold Pinter's Betrayal
Week 12 - Broadway; Sunday in the Park with George
Week 13 - August Wilson; Fences
Week 14 - Postmodernism & Modernism; Tom Stoppard's Arcadia

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