Theatre, History, Culture II: Romantics, Realists and Revolutionaries
ENGL 1875.401
also offered as: THAR 0102
instructor(s):
TR 3:30-4:59pm
This course investigates the history of theatre practice from the end of the Eighteenth-Century to the present, with an emphasis on interplay of mainstream practices with the newly emerging aesthetics of acting, scenography, and theatrical theory, and the interplay of popular entertainment and audiences with the self-defined aesthetic elitism of the Avant Garde. Among the aesthetics and phenomena we will examine are romanticism and melodrama; bourgeois realism and revolutionary naturalism; emotional-realist acting; the reaction against realism; political theatre; physical theatre; theatre and media; non-dramatic theatre; and theatre that challenges long-standing categories of national identity, empire, gender, and sexuality.
English Major Requirements
College Attributes
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Sector III: Arts & Letters (AUAL)
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