Syllabus, Fall 2004
History & Literature
of the Theatre I

THEATRE 3000

Instructor: Brent Lefavor

Phone: X 1321

e-mail: lefavbw@millsaps.edu

Office: CC 18

Meeting times: MWF 10:00, Th 8:00

Location:

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COURSE SCHEDULE and ASSIGNMENTS

August

25 Introduction
27 Brockett; Chp. 1 "The Origins of Theatre", pages 1-12

30 Brockett; Chp. 2 "... Ancient Greece", pages 13-48

September

01 Aeschylus, Agamemnon *** Jacobus
03 Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus (Rex)*** Jacobus

06 Euripides, Trojan Women ***
08 Aristotle, "The Poetics"
10 Aristophanes, Lysistrata Jacobus

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15 TEST #1
17 Brockett; Chp. 3, "Roman and Byzantine...", pages 49-80

20 Horace, "The Art of Poetry" in European Theories ...
22 Plautus, The Menaechmi
24 Seneca, Thyestes

27
29 TEST #2

October

01 Brockett; Chp. 4 "European ... Middle Ages", pages 81-120

04 Hrosvitha, Dulcitius Jacobus
06 Anonymous, The Second Shepherd's Play ***
08 Anonymous, Everyman Jacobus

11 TEST #3
13 Brockett; Chp. 5 "Italian...", pages 121-152
15 Machiavelli, La Mandragola (The Mandrake)

18 MID-SEMESTER BREAK
20 Brockett; Chp. 6 "English...Middle Ages -1642" pages 153-186
22 Kyd, The Spanish Tragedy

25 Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus Jacobus
27 Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew ***
29 Shakespeare, Hamlet *** Jacobus

November

01 Jonson, The Masque of Blackness Jacobus
03 Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
05

08 TEST #4
10 Brockett; Chp. 7 "Spanish...to 1700", pages 187-204
12 Lope de Vega, Fuenteovejuna (The Sheep Well) ***

15 Calderon, La Vida es Sueno (Life is a Dream) Jacobus
17 Brockett; Chp 8 "France, 1500-1700, pages 205-232
19 Corneille, Le Cid

22 Racine, Phaedra ***
24 Moliere, L'Avare (The Miser)
26 THANKSGIVING

29 TEST #5
Dec 01 Brockett; Chp. 18 "Theatre of Asia", pages 591-633
03 Chikamatsu, The Courier for Hell

FINAL EXAM Thursday, December 10th @ 9:00 a.m.

*** Plays can be viewed on VHS on reserve in the Library

 

 

 

 

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