Theatre
Arts 275
The
Seeds of Modern Drama
Professor
Mazer
Fall
2014
519
Annenberg Center, 3-2659; cmazer@english.upenn.edu
Office
Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays,
1:30-2:30, and by appointment
August
28: Introduction
September
2: Alexandre Dumas, fils, The
Lady of the Camelias (Camille) (Canvas)
September
4: Emile Zola, Thrse Raquin
(in Norris Houghton, The Seeds of Modern Drama); Naturalism in the Theatre (Canvas)
September
9: Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House
September
11: A Doll House (cont.); G.
Bernard Shaw, Ideals and Idealists and The Technical Novelty of Ibsens
Plays, from The Quintessence of Ibsenism (Canvas)
September
16: Ibsen, The Wild Duck
September
18: Ibsen, The Master Builder
September
23: Gerhart Hauptmann, The
Weavers (in Houghton)
[September
25: NO CLASS]
September
30: August Strindberg, Miss
Julie (including the Preface).
October
2: Miss Julie (cont.); Una
Chaudhuri, Private Parts: Sex,
Class, and Stage Space in Miss Julie (Canvas)
[Approximate
due date: first take-home
assignment]
October
7: Ibsen, Peer Gynt
[Fall
Break]
October
14: Georg Bchner, Woyzeck
October
16: Frank Wedekind, Spring
Awakening
October
21: Strindberg, A Dream Play
October
23: Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
October
28: Unclw Vanya (cont.)
October
30: The Cherry Orchard
(cont.)
November
4: The Cherry Orchard
(cont.)
[Approximate
due date: second take-home
assignment]
November
6: G. Bernard Shaw, Mrs.
Warrens Profession (including The Authors Apology, Canvas; also
available for free on Kindle.)
November
11: Shaw, Major Barbara
(including the Preface).
November
13: Major Barbara (cont.);
Sidney P. Albert, In More Ways than One: Major Barbaras debt to Gilbert
Murray (Canvas).
November
18: H. Granville Barker, The
Voysey Inheritance (Canvas)
November
20: TO BE ANNOUNCED.
November
25: The Voysey Inheritance
(cont.)
[THANKSGIVING]
December
2: Elizabeth Robins, Votes for
Women! (Canvas)
December
4: John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World (Canvas; also
available for free on Kindle.)
December
9: Catch-up and conclusions.
There
will be TWO take-home essay assignments (approximately 5 pages), plus ONE final
paper (approximately 10-12 pages), due at a date to be announced during reading
and exam period, on a topic that must MUST BE APPROVED IN ADVANCE. Attendance in class is crucial; CHRONIC
ABSENCE OR LATENESS WILL BE COUNTED AGAINST YOU.
The
following books can be purchased at the Penn Book Center, 34th and Sansom Sts.:
Henrik
Ibsen, Four Major Plays v. I
August
Strindberg, Miss Julie and Other Plays
Henrik
Ibsen, Peer Gynt
Georg
Bchner, Complete Plays
Frank
Wedekind, Spring Awakening
Anton
Chekhov, Four Plays & Three Jokes
G.
Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara
The
listserv for this course is THAR275-401-14c@lists.upenn.edu. Several electronic scripts and articles
are available on the Canvas website, to which you have been automatically
subscribed.
The
syllabus for this course is available at
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mazer/275f14.htm. Make a bookmark on your web browser for
this site.