English 282

Survey of Drama from the Ancient Greeks to the Present

Ms. Tufts	Spring 1999
	MW 12:00-1:15

Office: Rice 105

Phone: 8572

Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 11:00-Noon,

Tuesday 2:00-3:00, and by appointment

READING ASSIGNMENTS:

1. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex (c. 430 B.C.), February 10, 15
2. The Wakefield Master, The Second Shepherds' Play (c. 1420) and Anonymous, Everyman (c. 1485), February 17
3. Shakespeare, Twelfth Night (1600), February 22, 24, March 1
4. Shakespeare, Othello (1604), March 3, 8, 10
5. Behn, The Rover f(1677), March 15, 17
6. Ibsen, A Doll's House (1879), March 29, 31
7. Chekhov, The Cherry Orchard (1903), April 5, 7
8. Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921), April 12, 14
9. Brecht, Galileo (1938-39), April 19, 21
10. Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952), April 26, 28
11. Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959), May 3, 5
12. Reza, Art (1994), May 10, 12

WRITING ASSIGNMENTS:

Three Papers.

First paper (4-6 pages), due March 8.

Second paper (4-6 pages), due April 14.

Final paper (8-10 pages), due May 18.

PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENT: Each student is responsible for a performance in class of a scene from one of the plays we are reading this semester.

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 ADDITION:

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

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 by politically correct. To be political means to open up a dialogue, not to be 'correct.'

Paula Vogel, playwright