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Syllabus 2013-14 - 12213015 - Theatre in the English Language (Teatro en lengua inglesa)
- Level 1: Tutorial support sessions, materials and exams in this language
- Level 2: Tutorial support sessions, materials, exams and seminars in this language
- Level 3: Tutorial support sessions, materials, exams, seminars and regular lectures in this language
| DEGREE: | Grado en Estudios ingleses |
| FACULTY: | FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCES AND EDUCATION |
| ACADEMIC YEAR: | 2013-14 |
| COURSE: | Theatre in the English Language |
| NAME: Theatre in the English Language | |||||
| CODE: 12213015 | ACADEMIC YEAR: 2013-14 | ||||
| LANGUAGE: English | LEVEL: 3 | ||||
| ECTS CREDITS: 6.0 | YEAR: 3 | SEMESTER: PC | |||
1. Introduction: a. Drama & theatre. b. Icons, indexes & signs. c. Genre, carácter and speech. Reading: From Nieto (1997). 2. Medieval drama: a. Mateiral and historical conditions. b. Mysteries and moralities. Reading: from The Second Shepherds Play (from the Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1). 3. Elizabethan and Jacobean drama: Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare. a. Elizabethan theatre: material conditions.. b. Public and national theatre and the construction of identities. c. Religion, economy and politics in early modern English theatre. Reading: Merchant of Venice, by William Shakespeare. 4. Victorian and late Victorian drama. a. The Victorian period: history, culture, ideology and society. b. The dialectic containment/subversion. Reading: The Importance of Being Ernest, by Oscar Wilde 5. Twentieth century drama. a. Symbolism and expressionism vs sentimental comedy. b. Absurdist theatre, Angry Young Men, kitchen-sink drama c. Contemporary theatre and ideological criticism. Reading: The Lion and the Jewel, by Wole Soyinka.
This course requires regular attendance and active participation. Lectures will demand students' comments, and there will be class presentations. Assigned readings will be discussed in class. There will be lectures, and theoretical and practical sessions, plyus specialized seminars and tutorials. Significant individual reading will be required, although all the assigned readings will be explianed and discussed in class.
Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support
There will be one final class essay (50% of the final grade), which will include: identification of excerpts from the assigned plays; one essay on one topic from a choice of two. Students will also be required to produce one individual paper, a 10 minute summary of which may have to be delivered in class (30%). Regular attendance and active participation will make up the remaining 20% of the final grade.
- Drama and theatre analysis: an introduction. Edition: -. Author: Nieto García, Jesús Manuel. Publisher: [Jaén]: Universidad de Jaén, Servicio de Publicaciones e Intercambio Científico, D.L. 1997 (Library)
- Collected plays. Edition: -. Author: Soyinka, Wole. Publisher: Oxford [etc.]: University Press, 1973 (Library)
- William Shakespeare [Recurso electrónico] : The merchant of Venice. Edition: -. Author: Sokolova, Boika. Publisher: Tirril [England] : Humanities-Ebooks, 2009 (Library)
- The Norton anthology of English literature. Edition: 8th ed.. Author: -. Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, cop. 2006 (Library)
- WILDE: Comedies: Lady Windermere's Fan, A Womam of no Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance o. Edition: -. Author: -. Publisher: Houndmills [etc.]: MacMillan, 1982 (Library)
- Early modern English drama: a critical companion. Edition: -. Author: -. Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006. (Library)
- Drama today: a critical guide to British drama, 1970-1990. Edition: -. Author: Wandor, Michelene. Publisher: London: Longman: The British Council, 1993 (Library)
- The CAMBRIDGE Companion to Medieval English Theatre. Edition: -. Author: -. Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (Library)