Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
401
Title (text only)
Theatre, History, Culture II: Romantics, Realists and Revolutionaries
Term
2025A
Subject area
THAR
Section number only
401
Section ID
THAR0102401
Course number integer
102
Meeting times
TR 3:30 PM-4:59 PM
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Raymond Saraceni
Description
This course investigates the history of theatre practice from the end of the Eighteenth-Century to the present, with an emphasis on interplay of mainstream practices with the newly emerging aesthetics of acting, scenography, and theatrical theory, and the interplay of popular entertainment and audiences with the self-defined aesthetic elitism of the Avant Garde. Among the aesthetics and phenomena we will examine are romanticism and melodrama; bourgeois realism and revolutionary naturalism; emotional-realist acting; the reaction against realism; political theatre; physical theatre; theatre and media; non-dramatic theatre; and theatre that challenges long-standing categories of national identity, empire, gender, and sexuality.
Course number only
0102
Cross listings
ENGL1875401
Fulfills
Arts & Letters Sector
Use local description
No