MODERN DRAMA:  IBSEN TO WORLD WAR I
                         Professor Mazer
Bennett Hall 305, x8-7382; e-mail:  cmazer@english.upenn.edu
Office Hours:  Tu/Th 1:30-3:00 (and other days, by appointment
only)

January 13:  Introduction.

January 15:  Alexandre Dumas, fils, The Lady of the Camelias
     (Camille) (bulkpack)

January 20:  Emile Zola, Thérèse Raquin; preface to Thérèse
     Raquin (bulkpack).

January 22:  Henrik Ibsen, A Doll House.

January 27:  A Doll House (cont.).

January 29:  Ibsen, Ghosts.

February 3:  Ibsen, Hedda Gabler.

February 5:  Hedda Gabler (cont.):  special session with Grace
     Gonglewski, playing Hedda in the Arden Theatre Company
     production.

February 10:  August Strindberg, Miss Julie (with preface).

February 12:  Miss Julie (cont.).

[APPROXIMATE DUE DATE:  FIRST TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT]

February 17:  Strindberg, The Stronger (bulkpack); Dagny Juel
     Przybyszewska, The Stronger (bulkpack).

February 19:  Ibsen, Peer Gynt.

February 24:  Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening.

February 26:  Strindberg, A Dream Play.

March 3:  Anton Chekhov, The Seagull.

March 5:  The Seagull (cont.).

[SPRING BREAK]

March 17:  The Seagull (cont.)

March 19:  IN-CLASS EXERCISE.

March 24:  The Seagull (cont.).

March 26:  G. Bernard Shaw,  Mrs. Warren's Profession (with
     prefaces).

March 31:  Mrs. Warren's Profession (cont.).

[APPROXIMATE DUE DATE:  SECOND TAKE-HOME ASSIGNMENT]

April 2:  Shaw, Major Barbara (with preface).

April 7:  Major Barbara (cont.).

April 9:  Elizabeth Robins, Votes for Women!

April 14:  Shaw, Heartbreak House (with preface).

April 16:  Heartbreak House (cont.).

April 21:  John Millington Synge, Playboy of the Western World.

April 23:  catch-up and conclusions.


Required Theatregoing:

     Ibsen, Hedda Gabler, Arden Theatre Company:  2pm SUNDAY
       MATINEE, FEBRUARY 1st (special group rate tickets, $14).

(Specific dates, and special group rates, to be announced):

     Ibsen, Ghosts, Lantern Theatre Company:  Feb. 11-Mar. 8.

     [PENDING] Shaw, Pygmalion, Bristol Riverside Theatre:  Mar.
       31-Apr. 19.


In addition to the two take-home essays and the in-class
exercise, there is a choice of EITHER a final examination, at the
date scheduled by the registrar, OR a 12-15 page final term
paper, on an open topic, due May 1.  ALL TERM PAPER TOPICS MUST
BE APPROVED BY ME BY APRIL 14.  If you do not get your topic
approved by that date, you must take the exam instead.  NO LATE
PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED; if you cannot do the paper by May 1,
take the exam.

Books can be purchased at the Penn Book Center, 37th and Walnut;
the bulkpack can be purchased at the Campus Copy Center, 39th and
Walnut.

I have set up a listserv for this course on e-mail, to which you
have been automatically subscribed (if this is not so, contact me
via e-mail).  You will be sent a copy of every e-mail message
posted to the listserv, and any message you send will be
distributed to everyone who signs up (including the professor and
the TAs).  Important announcements about assignments and due
dates, notices about local theatre events, etc., will be posted
regularly, so CHECK YOUR E-MAIL EVERY DAY.  The listserv can also
be used by you and your classmates as a clearing house for
thoughts and impressions about the readings and the lectures.
Just send a note to Mazer76@english.upenn.edu, or reply to any
message you receive over the listserv.

An electronic version of this syllabus can be found at:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mazer/76sp98.txt