TR221 Theatre History I Schedule

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A Glimpse of Theater History

TR221 History of the Theatre I Schedule
Fall 2009

DATE	TOPIC	READING ASSIGNMENT	LINKS TO REQUIRED SUPPLEMENTS
8/26	Intro/Syllabus THEORIES OF ORIGIN
8/28	PRIMITIVE and ANCIENT THEATRE	BROCKETT CH. 1	Theoretical Origins of Theatre Gimi tribe
8/31	ANCIENT GREEK FESTIVALS & TRAGEDY	BROCKETT CH. 2	Eleusinian Mysteries Festivals in Honor of Dionysos
9/2	ANCIENT GREEK ARCHITECTURE & STAGING CONVENTIONS		Greek Theatre Architecture Onomastikon
9/4	AESCHYLUS	*Prometheus Bound*	Aeschylus Background for Prometheus Bound
9/7	HOLIDAY	LABOR DAY	HOLIDAY
9/9	AESCHYLUS	*Agamemnon*	Background for the Oresteia
9/11	SOPHOKLES	*Aias*	Sophokles Introduction to Sophokles' Aias
9/14	SOPHOKLES: The Theban Plays	*Oedipus Rex*	The Founding of Thebes
9/16	SOPHOKLES: The Theban Plays	Antigone [Philoktetes: Extra Credit ]
9/18	SOPHOKLES: The Theban Plays	*Oedipus at Colonus*
9/21	EURIPIDES	*The Bacchantes*	Euripides
9/23	EURIPIDES	*Euripides' Medea*	*Background for Medea*
9/25	OLD COMEDY & SATYR PLAYS	*The Birds*	Aristophanes Satyr Plays
9/28	NEW COMEDY & MENANDER; ROMAN LUDI AND MIME PLAYS	*The Grouch*	Menander Ludi
9/30	ROMAN ARCHITECTURE,	*You Can't Take It With You OPENS*	De Architectura of Vitruvius
10/2	ROMAN TRAGEDY ITALIAN COMEDY/ PHYLYAKES ETC.	BROCKETT CH. 3 thru p.65 Seneca's *Medea*	Seneca
10/5	PLAUTUS	The Menaechmi	Plautus
10/7	TERENCE	The Brothers	Terence
10/9	MIDTERM REVIEW	MIDTERM REVIEW	STUDY GUIDE: MIDTERM
10/12	PACER WEEKEND	NO CLASS	STUDY HARD
10/14	MIDTERM EXAMINATION	MIDTERM EXAMINATION	MIDTERM EXAMINATION
10/16	BYZANTINE THEATRE ETC.	BROCKETT CH. 3 to the end	Quilters opens 10/15
10/19	CHURCH VS. THEATRE TERM PAPER TOPICS DUE	BROCKETT CH. 4	Tertullian St. Chrysostom Augustine of Hippo Choricius, et al. Apollinarii Amalarius of Metz
10/21	TROPING, ETC.	Quem Quaeritis	Quem Quaeritis Hrotswitha von Gandersheim
10/23	VERNACULAR	Adam	Corpus Christi and the Cycle Plays
10/26	MYSTERIES & MIRACLES	Second Shepherd's Play	The Wakefield Master
10/28	MORALITIES	*Everyman*
10/30	MEDIEVAL FARCE, ETC.	Pierre Pathelin; The Wise Virgins and the Foolish Virgins	Master Playwrights of Arras
11/2	SPANISH RENAISSANCE	BROCKETT CH 6	Spanish Renaissance
11/4	SPANISH RENAISSANCE		Pedro Calderon de la Barca *Life is a Dream*
11/6	ITALIAN RENAISSANCE	BROCKETT CH. 7	Commedia Erudita
11/9	COMMEDIA DELL' ARTE		Commedia dell' Arte Perucci, Andrea on Commedia dell 'Arte Riccoboni, Luigi Lazzi
11/11	NEOCLASSICISM		Principle Neoclassic Critics Principles of Neoclassicism
11/13	FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM	BROCKETT: CH 8	Pierre Corneille Le Cid Controversy
11/16	FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM		Phaedra
11/18	FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM	Moliere Moliere's Company The Tartuffe Controversy	Tartuffe
11/20	NOH & KYOGEN	BROCKETT: pp. 631-636 Abstraction Nakamitsu
11/23	KABUKI	BROCKETT: pp. 638-643
11/25	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY	THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY
11/27	WAYANG KULIT TERM PAPERS DUE	TERM PAPERS DUE	TERM PAPERS DUE
11/30	BUNRAKU	BROCKETT: pp. 636-638	Fair Ladies at a Game of Poem-Cards
12/2	SANSKRIT DRAMA	BROCKETT: pp. 613-620 Anne of Green Gables opens	Mahabharata Ramayana Natyashastra Rasa
12/4	SANSKRIT DRAMA	Shakuntala
12/7	STUDENT MATINEE	NO CLASS	*Anne of Green Gables*
12/9	CHINESE OPERA	BROCKETT: PP. 620-621 *The Chalk Circle*
12/11	REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM	EXTRA CREDIT PAPERS DUE	FINAL STUDY GUIDE

FINAL EXAMINATION as scheduled