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Syllabus,
Fall 2004
History
& Literature
of the Theatre I
THEATRE
3000

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Instructor:
Brent
Lefavor
Phone: X 1321
e-mail: lefavbw@millsaps.edu
Office:
CC 18
Meeting times: MWF 10:00,
Th 8:00
Location:
printable
pdf file of the syllabus
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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
01
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon
***
Jacobus
03
Sophocles,
Oedipus
Tyrannus
(Rex)***
Jacobus
06
Euripides,
Trojan
Women
***
08
Aristotle,
"The
Poetics"
10
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata
Jacobus
13
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
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
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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