21L.703 | Spring 2005 | Undergraduate

Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War

Assignments

SES # Topics ASSIGNMENTS
1

Introduction - 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.

 
2

Discussion 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.

 
3 Galileo in Historical Perspective: Developing Questions Preliminary self-assessment due
4 Discussion of King Lear  
5 The Changes Across a Century: The Example of Tate’s King Lear  
6 Discussion with Historian of Science Arne Hessenbruch  
7

John Ford’s The Broken Heart

Optional Event: Literature presentation by playwright Max Hafler: “Faustus: Adapting and Directing the Elizabethan Bad Boy, Christopher Marlowe.”

 
8 Guest Scholar  
9 Discussion of Brome’s The Antipodes and Caroline Theater  
10 Discussion of Shirley’s The Cardinal  
11 Visit from Prof. Mary Campbell, Poet and Author of Wonder and Science  
12 Visit from Prof. Ellen Harris on Davenant and Music 5-page paper/research write-up due
13 Prof. Sonenberg’s Solo Day  
14 The Civil War, in History and Art Topics for theatrical experiments due
15 Churchill’s Light Shining in Buckinghamshire  
16 Poetry, Language, Wit  
17 Discussion of Two Versions of Hydriotaphia  
18-19 Experiments, Round One  
20 Reports and Discussion  
21-22 Reports and Break-outs  
23-24 That Which Needs Doing 10-page paper/project due
25-26 Experiments, Round Two Concluding self-assessment due

Course Info

As Taught In
Spring 2005
Learning Resource Types
Projects with Examples