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A Glimpse of Theatre History

 

TR222 SCHEDULE

DATE
TOPIC
ASSIGNMENT
Wednesday, January 18
INTRODUCTION & Syllabus
 
Friday, January 20
Theatre during the Reformation
Monday, January 23
Rhetoric and Euphuism
BROCKETT CHAPTER 5
Rhetoric
Gorboduc
Wednesday, January 25
John Lyly
Friday, January 27
Ben Jonson and
Comedies of Humours
Monday, January 30
Christopher Marlowe
Wednesday, February 1
Shakespeare
Friday, Fevruary 3
Shakespeare
Monday, February 6
Jonson and Inigo Jones
Wednesday, February 8
John Webster
Friday, February 10
Restoration: Aphra Behn
The Feign'd Courtezans
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9
pp211-217
Monday, February 13
Restoration: Dryden
All for Love
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9
pp217-221
Wednesday, February 15
The 18th Century: Congreve and English Comedy of Manners
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9
pp227-232
The Way of the World
Friday, February 17
The 18th Century:
Addison and Steele
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9
pp221-227 & 232-237
Cato
Monday, February 20

Oliver Goldsmith

Wednesday, February 22

Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Friday, February 24
REVIEW FOR MIDTERM
Monday, February 27
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
MIDTERM
EXAMINATION
Wednesday, February 29
Romanticism
Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, etc.
Term Paper Topic Due
GOETHE

Romanticism
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9p237-241
Faust, Part I

Friday, March 2
Romanticism
Sturm und Drang, Weimar Classicism, etc.
Romanticism
BROCKETT CHAPTER 9p237-241
Monday, March 5
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
Wednesday, March 7
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
Friday, March 9
SPRING BREAK
SPRING BREAK
Monday, March 12
MELODRAMA

THE WELL-MADE PLAY
Wednesday, March 14
EARLY AMERICAN
Friday, March 16
EARLY AMERICAN
Monday, March 19
MINSTRELSY
MUSICAL COMEDY
Rice, Thomas D., "Jim Crow"
The Black Crook, etc.
Wednesday, March 21

DION BOUCICAULT

Friday, March 23
STAR SYSTEM
Monday, March 26
TOURING STARS
ACTOR/MANAGERS
Wednesday, March 28
RISE OF THE REGISSEUR
Friday, March 30

TECHNICAL ADVANCES

Mackaye, Steele
Diorama

Monday, April 2
REALISM
Wednesday, April 4

MANAGERS
PRODUCERS

Thursday, April 5
4/6-4/8
EASTER BREAK
EASTER BREAK
Monday, April 9
TERM PAPER DUE
Shaw, George Bernard
TERM PAPER DUE
Wednesday, April 11
Naturalism and its Practitioners
Friday, April 13
Chekhov, Anton and
the Moscow Art Theatre
Monday April 16
Art vs. Business
Wednesday, April 18
Appia & Craig, et al
 
Friday, April 20
Non/Anti-Realism
Wednesday, April 25
MAETERLINCK
Friday, April 27
Art or Propaganda: Epic Theatre
Piscator
Brecht
Monday, April 30
Anythinbg Goes matinee
Anything Goes matinee
Wednesday, May 2
Non/Anti-Realism
Friday, May 4
LAST DAY OF CLASS

FINAL EXAMINATION during the scheduled exam period. Specifics as published by DeSales University.