Spring, 2002

Ms. Tufts

English 365

Rice 105 (440) 775-8572

MW, 12:00-1:15
King 227

Office Hours: MW, 11:00-noon,
Tu, 2:00-3:00, and by appointment

E-mail: Carol.Tufts@oberlin.edu

American Drama

 

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

 

1.      Clifford Odets, Awake and Sing (1935), February 6

2.      Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes (1934), February 11

3.      Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey Into Night (1941), February 13-18

4.      Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof  (1955), February 20-25

5.      Arthur Miller, After the Fall (1964), February 27-March 4

6.      Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), March 6-11

7.      Adrienne Kennedy, Funnyhouse of a Negro  (1969), March 13

8.      Sam Shepard, Curse of the Starving Class 1976), March 18-20

9.      David Mamet, Glengarry  Glen Ross (1982), April 1-3

10.   Maria Irene Fornes, Fefu and Her Friends (1977), April 8-10

11.   David Henry Hwang, Family Devotions (1981), April 15

12.   August Wilson, Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1986), April 17-22

13.   Paul Vogel, How I Learned to Drive (1997), April 24

14.   Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1992), April 29-May 1

15.   Tony Kushner, Angels in America: Perestroika (1992), May 6-8

 

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:  Two papers.  First paper (4-6 pages), due either March 20, or April 1. Final paper (8-10 pages), due May 14th

 

PERFORMANCE AND DRAMA CRITIC REQUIREMENT:  Each student is responsible for a performance in class of a scene from one of the plays we are reading this semester.  Each student is also responsible for 'acting' as a first-night drama critic in response to an in-class performance.

 

 

NOTE WELL:  BECAUSE CLASS PARTICIPATION IS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THIS COURSE, MORE THAN THREE UNEXCUSED ABSENCES WILL RESULT IN A LOWERING OF YOUR FINAL GRADE.  YOU STAND WARNED.

 

IN ADDITON: PLEASE USE THE BATHROOM BEFORE COMING TO CLASS.  WALKING IN AND OUT OF THE ROOM WHEN SOMEONE IS SPEAKING IS BOTH    

                                                RUDE AND DISTRACTING.

 

THIS CLASS IS HEREBY DECLARED A  P.C. FREE ZONE

 

In this time of political correctness, you have to go against the grain.  If audiences don't embrace both sides of the issue, there can be no political dialogue.  Political correctness is an oxymoron:  In my sense of political you can never be politically correct.  To be political means to open up a dialogue, not to be 'correct.'

 

                                                                                                                        Paula Vogel, playwright