Plays for Performance
THEA 150
Fall 2008
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01
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This course aims to provide first-year students with a substantial body of dramatic texts to discuss and analyze in terms of their performance possibilities in various times and different cultural contexts, as well as for today's audience. Plays under study are drawn from both classical works and outside the canon. Students attend plays in production at Wesleyan and other theaters during the semester that will be added to the class discussions and written assignments. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA THEA |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (THEA) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 | | Special Attributes: FYI |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Plays may be drawn from these authors and others:
Aeschylus Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Calderon, Moliere, Sheridan, Ibsen, Brecht, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, O'Neill, Beckett, Williams, Fornes, Sheperd, Churchill, Stoppard, Rapp, Parks
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Examinations and Assignments:
Three written assignments, oral presentation, scene readings, participation in discussions. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
"Plays for Performance" for first-year students may be applied to the requirement in the Theater Major as one of the three courses in dramatic literature and criticism. |
| Instructor(s): Jaffe,David B. Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: CINE; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 0 | JR major: 0 | | |
| Seats Available: -3 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 0 | JR non-major: 0 | SO: 0 | FR: 19 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 1 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 0 |
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