Theatre Arts 110
WESTERN DRAMA
Professor Mazer
Spring 2001
519 Annenberg Center, 3-2659; cmazer@english.upenn.edu
Office Hours: Tu
Noon-1:15; Th 11:00-Noon; and by appointment
(unless stated otherwise, all readings are in W.B. Worthen,
ed., The HBJ Anthology of Drama)
January 16:
Introduction
January 18:
Aeschylus, Agamemnon
January 23:
Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
January 25:
Euripides, The Bacchae (in separate volume, as The Bakkhai,
trans. Robert Bagg)
January 30:
Aristophanes, Lysistrata
February 1:
Anonymous, The Second Shepherd’s Pageant
February 6:
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
February 8: William
Shakespeare, Hamlet
February 13: Pedro
Calderon de la Barca, Life is a Dream
[APPROXIMATE DATE:
First take-home assignment]
February 15:
Molière, Tartuffe
February 20: Jean
Racine, Phaedra
February 22: Aphra
Behn, The Rover
February 27: Carlo
Goldoni, La Locandiera (aka Mirandolina) (bulkpack)
March 1: Friedrich
Schiller, The Robbers (bulkpack)
March 6: Alexandre
Dumas, fils, The Lady of the Camelias (aka Camille) (bulkpack)
March 8: Henrik
Ibsen, A Doll House
[SPRING BREAK]
March 20: Anton
Chekhov, The Seagull (in separate volume)
March 22: G. Bernard
Shaw, Major Barbara
[APPROXIMATE DATE:
Second take-home assignment]
March 27: Georg
Büchner, Woyzeck (bulkpack)
March 29: Luigi
Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
April 3: Bertolt
Brecht, Mother Courage
April 5: Samuel
Beckett, Endgame
April 10: Peter
Weiss, Marat/Sade (in separate volume)
April 12: In-class
writing exercise.
April 17: LeRoi
Jones (Amiri Baraka), Dutchman
April 19: David
Henry Huang, M. Butterfly
April 24: Tony
Kushner, Angels in America Part I:
Millenium Approaches
April 26: Suzan-Lori
Parks, The America Play
In addition to the two take-home essays and the in-class
exercise, there is a final examination, at the date scheduled by the registrar.
Books (including The HBJ Anthology of Drama, The Bakkhai,
Chekhov The Major Plays, Marat/Sade) can be purchased at the Penn Book
Center (at 34th and Sansom Sts.); the Bulkpack can be purchased at the Campus
Copy Center, 39th and Walnut.
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