SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
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1 | Introductions; British comedy and you | |
Travesties and Traditions | ||
2 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1966 / 67). | |
3 | Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, across media. | Preliminary self-assessment due; Waiting for Godot report due; attend MIT DramaShop's production of Arcadia. |
4 | The Real Inspector Hound (1969 / 70). | |
5 | Travesties (1974 / 75); discussion of Aracdia in performance; exchange of essay on Travesties with a partner. | Essay on Travesties due; exchange essay with a partner. |
6 | Presentations of one another's ideas about Travesties, with commentary. | Partner exchange reader's report on Travesties essay due; Dadaism report due. |
7 | Travesties and Top Girls (play first performed in 1982). | Brechtian and feminist theater report. |
Serious Comedy | ||
8 | Scenes from an Execution (1985 radio version; 1990 staged). | |
9 | Scenes from an Execution and Serious Money (1987). | |
10 | Serious Money; exchange of essay on Serious Money with a partner. | Draft thesis-driven analytic essay due; exchange essay with a partner. |
11 | Hapgood (1988); exchange of reader's report on partner's essay on Serious Money. | Partner exchange reader's report due. |
12 | Hapgood and Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (1994). | |
13 | Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992. | |
Imagining Beyond | ||
14 | Arcadia (1993). | Revised thesis-driven analytic essay due. |
15 | The Invention of Love (1997). | |
16 | Class discussion | |
17 | Class discussion | |
18 | Labors of love, where we've arrived. | |
19 | From Kohout to Cahoot, from Wittgenstein to Dogg. | |
20 | Class discussion | |
21 | Rock 'n' Roll (2006); voluntary sharing of students' Stoppardian scenes. | Stoppardian scene due. |
22 | Rock 'n' Roll. | |
23 | Exchange of reader's report on partner's major essay / project. | Draft major essay / project due; exchange essay with a partner. |
24 | A Number (2002). | Partner exchange reader's report due. |
25 | Student presentations on major project | |
26 | Student presentations on major project (cont.) | Final self-assessment due. |