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Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War >> Content Detail



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1Introduction - To an Experiment and a Century

Objectives: To provide some basic grounding in the historical period, to establish the parameters of this subject, and to adapt our plan to fit the interests of our student participants.
2Discussion of Brecht's Galileo

Objectives: To examine one twentieth-century playwright's artistic practice, to establish our abilities and approaches as readers of drama, and to consider the reasons for writing historical drama set in the seventeenth century.
3Galileo in Historical Perspective: Developing QuestionsPreliminary self-assessment due
4Discussion of King Lear
5The Changes Across a Century: The Example of Tate's King Lear
6Discussion with Historian of Science Arne Hessenbruch
7John Ford's The Broken Heart

Optional Event: Literature presentation by playwright Max Hafler: "Faustus: Adapting and Directing the Elizabethan Bad Boy, Christopher Marlowe."
8Guest Scholar
9Discussion of Brome's The Antipodes and Caroline Theater
10Discussion of Shirley's The Cardinal
11Visit from Prof. Mary Campbell, Poet and Author of Wonder and Science
12Visit from Prof. Ellen Harris on Davenant and Music5-page paper/research write-up due
13Prof. Sonenberg's Solo Day
14The Civil War, in History and ArtTopics for theatrical experiments due
15Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire
16Poetry, Language, Wit
17Discussion of Two Versions of Hydriotaphia
18-19Experiments, Round One
20Reports and Discussion
21-22Reports and Break-outs
23-24That Which Needs Doing10-page paper/project due
25-26Experiments, Round TwoConcluding self-assessment due

 








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