A
Glimpse of Theatre History
TR 222 READING SCHEDULE
| DATE |
TOPIC |
ASSIGNMENT |
| Wednesday, January 17 |
INTRODUCTION & Syllabus |
|
| Friday, January 19 |
Theatre during the Reformation |
BROCKETT CHAPTER 4 pp
Pre-Shakespearean Interludes, etc. |
| Monday, January 22 |
Rhetoric and Euphuism |
BROCKETT CHAPTER
5 Rhetoric Gorbuduc |
| Wednesday, January 24 |
John Lyly |
Endymion |
| Friday, January 26 |
Ben Jonson and Comedies of Humours |
Jonson, Ben Volpone |
| Monday, January 29 |
Christopher
Marlowe |
Tamburlaine the Great Part I |
| Wednesday, January 31 |
Shakespeare |
Shakespeare
bio Shakespeare's company Shakespeare's theatre Revenge Tragedy |
| Friday, February 2 |
Shakespeare |
Hamlet |
| Monday, February 5 |
Jonson and Inigo Jones | Jacobean & Carolingian Court Masques |
| Wednesday, February 7 |
John Webster |
Jacobean
Dramatists The Duchess of Malfi |
| Friday, February 09 |
Restoration: Aphra Behn |
The
Feign'd Courtezans BROCKETT CHAPTER 9 pp211-217 |
| Monday, February 12 |
Restoration: Dryden |
All
for Love BROCKETT CHAPTER 9 pp217-221 |
| Wednesday, February 14 |
The 18th Century: Congreve and English Comedy of Manners |
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9pp227-232 The Way of the World |
| Friday, February 16 |
The 18th Century: Addison and Steele |
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9 pp221-227 &
232-237 Cato |
| Monday, February 19 |
Goldsmith |
Goldsmith
essay She Stoops to Conquer |
| Wednesday, February 21 |
Sheridan |
The School for Scandal |
| Friday, February 23 |
REVIEW FOR MIDTERM |
MIDTERM STUDY GUIDE |
| Monday, February 26 |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
MIDTERM EXAMINATION |
| Wednesday, February 28 |
|
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9p237-241 |
| Friday, February 29 |
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| Monday, March 03 |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
| Wednesday, March 05 |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
| Friday, March 07 |
SPRING BREAK |
SPRING BREAK |
| Monday, March 10 Term Paper Topic Due |
|
Romanticism |
| Wednesday, March 12 |
Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, etc.
|
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| Friday, March 14 |
GOETHE |
Faust, Part I |
| Monday, March 17 |
MELODRAMA AND THE WELL-MADE PLAY |
Melodrama Kotzebue Pixérécourt The "well-made play" |
| Wednesday, March 19 |
EARLY AMERICAN |
Hallams, The Tyler, Royall Payne, John Howard Dunlap, William |
| Thursday, March 20 |
EARLY AMERICAN |
Andre |
| Friday, March 21 --Monday, March
24 |
EASTER BREAK |
EASTER BREAK |
| Wednesday, March 26 |
MINSTRELSY
|
Rice,
Thomas D., "Jim Crow" The Octoroon |
| Friday, March 28 |
STAR SYSTEM |
Ellsler, John Keene, Laura Burton, William Evans Mowatt, Anna Cora Wallack's Theater Boston Museum Astor Place Riot |
| Monday, March 31 |
REALISM |
Realism |
| Wednesday, April 2 |
RISE OF THE REGISSEUR |
Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Richard Wagner |
| Friday, April 4 |
MUSICAL COMEDY
|
The Black Crook, etc. |
Monday, April 7 |
TECHNICAL ADVANCES
|
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| Wednesday, April 9 |
TOURING STARS ACTOR/MANAGERS |
Cooke, George Frederick
Smith, Sol Morris, Clara Mansfield, Richard Fiske, Minnie Maddern Gillette, William |
| Friday, April 11 |
MANAGERS |
Daly, Augustin Palmer, A. M. Belasco, David |
| Monday, April 14 |
Naturalism in the Theatre
Antoine, Andre Independent Theatre Movement |
|
| Wednesday, April 16 |
Ibsen, Henrik |
The Wild Duck |
| Friday, April 18 Term Paper Due |
Chekhov, Anton and the Moscow
Art Theatre |
Uncle Vanya |
| Monday, April 21 |
Anti-Realism |
Anti-Realism in the Theater Evreinov, Nikolai and monodrama Meyerhold, Vsevelod Vakhtangov, Eugene and fantastic realism |
| Wednesday, April 23 |
Appia & Craig, et al. |
|
| Friday, April 25 |
MAETERLINCK |
Pelleas and Melisande |
| Monday, April 28 |
No Class |
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE MATINEE |
| Wednesday, April 30 |
Art vs. Business | The Theatrical
Syndicate Syndicate Road Show, Life in a Iroquois Theater Disaster, The Actors Equity Association, Birth of |
| Friday, May2 |
LAST DAY OF CLASS |
REVIEW FOR FINAL EXAM |
FINAL EXAMINATION during the scheduled exam period. Specifics as published by DeSales University.