Drama 373: Theatre History III

This course surveys the artistic movements included within the category “modern theatre”: melodrama, realism, symbolism, expressionism, the historical avant-garde, epic theatre, the theatre of the absurd, and postmodern performance. Beginning in the late nineteenth century and continuing into the early twenty-first century, these movements have created the theatrical vocabulary that every contemporary actor, director, designer, and spectator is expected to know. We will examine these movements’ contributions to modern theatre and modern society, placing them within the larger narrative of modernity. We will be focusing particularly on the relationship between theatre and politics.

And here is the description for Drama 201:

This course teaches the basics of script analysis. We will learn how scripts are constructed and their various styles and genres. Through the reading and analysis of plays we will begin to

answer the questions: How does the play reveal its possible meanings? How is the world of the play constructed in the script? How does a script get interpreted for the stage?