THEA 364

Spring 2024 All Classes

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Topics in Theatre History

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Credit: 3 hours.

Survey of the methods for producing theatre history through a focus on a specific topic. Course will cover a broad range of time periods, styles and genres, geographic region organized around a central topic. Projects and papers will offer instruction in theatre history methods.

May be repeated in the same term to a maximum of 6 hours, if topics vary and in separate terms to a maximum of 12 hours, if topics vary. Prerequisite: THEA 122 and THEA 123.

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THEA 364 class schedule data for spring 2024
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
74448	Lecture-Discussion	A	1:30PM -2:50PM	MW	146 Armory	Salmasi, K	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Info: What impact has immigrant drama on the development of American theatre and performance art? The selected plays studied in this course deal with immigration, culture, family, deportation, justice, exile, and law problems. Immigrant plays are essentially a drama of ideas rather than action; they express specific statements they want to spread in American society. Immigrant playwrights examine the host community and address problematic issues in society. They use drama to demonstrate relations that prevail in the United States, which sometimes embeds discrimination and pressure on refugees, immigrants, and asylum seekers. This course explores immigrant theatre that flourished in the United States from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. We will examine the history of immigrant theatre through the cultural, economic, and political contexts. Topics include the theatre of European, Middle Eastern, Asian, African, and Hispanic immigrants to the United States.
76054	Lecture-Discussion	LB	1:30PM -2:50PM	MW	121 805 W Pennsylvania	Bright, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Info: This course will explore the ways “American Theatre has shaped popular understandings of the environment throughout the twentieth century,” and interrogate key moments in theatre history that underscore U.S. American discourse around the treatment of the planet, animals and peoples. The selected plays range from the wild west, the Federal Theatre project, classics of the canon and contemporary responses to the environmental crisis. The plays, articles and text will trace the beginnings of the U.S. government and settler relationship to land through manifest destiny to our current climate emergency. In addition, we will examine theatre companies with ecological processes and approaches to storytelling and production and take a look at standard practices within the American theatre industry.
74449	Lecture-Discussion	PGM	11:00AM -11:50AM	MWF	G46 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Barrett, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/24-05/01/24 Section Info: PERFORMANCE IN THE GLOBAL MIDDLE AGES: This course approaches the literature of the Middle Ages (500-1500 CE) through the medium of performances from across the globe. We’ll consider a variety of shows from Europe, Asia, and North Africa: the khayal al-zill or shadow plays of thirteenth-century Egypt, the zaju operas of China’s Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), the Noh drama of Japan’s Ashikaga shogunate (1338-1573), and the bible plays of fifteenth and sixteenth-century England. Music and spectacle feature in all four traditions, and so does a surprising mixture of sacred and profane themes: Mary and Joseph are put on trial for fornication in the English tradition, while Ibn Daniyal’s shadow puppets combine realistic representations of Egyptian conmen and prostitutes with esoteric reflections on the puppeteer’s art and the nature of divinity. All texts will be read in Modern English translation. Meets with ENGL 412.