WEEK BY WEEK (Based on the Academic Calendar for Fall 2022)

Week 1 Introduction Thurs (8/25) Introduction to the class

Week 2 Meta-theatricality (Jacobean Theatre in England) Tues (8/30) John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (Act I-III)

Thurs (9/1) The Duchess of Malfi (Act IV-V) “The Duchess of Malfi,” American Shakespeare Center: https://americanshakespearecenter.com/events/the-duchess-of-malfi-2007/

Week 3 Theatre and the City (Baroque French Theatre) Tues (9/6) Moliere, Tartuffe

Thurs (9/8) Larry F. Norman, “The Theatrical Baroque: European Plays, Painting and Poetry, 1575-1725,” Fathom Archive, The University of Chicago Library Digital Collection: https://fathom.lib.uchicago.edu/2/10701023/

Week 4 Theatre and the City (Edo Japanese Theatre) Tues (9/13) Ichikawa DanjūrōI, Shibaraku

Thurs (9/15) Sonia Coman, “Edo period: artisans, merchants and a flourishing urban culture,” Smarthistory: https://smarthistory.org/edo-period/ Kanai Shun’ichirō, “Techniques and Aesthetics: Introduction to Kabuki Sets,” Japanese Performing Arts Resource Center: http://www.glopad.org/jparc/?q=en/scenery/kanai_techniques Harvard-Yenching Library’s Kabuki Programmes: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/hylj/galleries/kabuki-programmes

Week 5 Theatre and Gender (Theatre of the Colonial Americas) Tues (9/20) Sor Juana de la Cruz, Loa to The Divine Narcissus in Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance, edited by Diana Taylor and Sarah J. Townsend

Thurs (9/22) Chad M. Gasta, “Narcissistic Imperialism: Religion and Reconquest in Sor Juana’s El Divino Narciso,” in Imperial Stagings: Empire and Ideology in Transatlantic Theater of Early Modern Spain and the New World

Week 6 No Classes Tues (9/27) No classes scheduled

Thurs (9/29) Classes follow a Monday schedule

Week 7 Archive Research Tues (10/4) No classes scheduled

Thurs (10/6) Archive research guide

Week 8 Theatre and Gender (Restoration Theatre in England) Tues (10/11) Aphra Behn, The Rover

Thurs (10/13) Elaine Hobby, “The Rover: An Introduction.” British Library: https://www.bl.uk/restoration-18th-century-literature/articles/the-rover-an-introduction.

Week 9 Popular Performance (Eighteenth-century European Theatre) Tues (10/18) Carlo Goldoni, Il servitore di due padroni (The Servant of Two Masters)

Thurs (10/20) Jennifer Meagher, “Commedia dell’arte,” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. The Metropolitan Museum of Art: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/comm/hd_comm.htm Commedia dell’arte in NYPL Public Domain Archive: https://nypl.getarchive.net/search?q=%23commedia%2Bdell%2Barte

Week 10 Theatre and Secularization (German Romantic Theatre) Tues (10/25) Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Nathan der Weise (Nathan the Wise)

    Thurs (10/27)    Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, “Hamburg Dramaturgy”
        Friedrich Schiller, “The Stage as Moral Institution” 
        Johann Wolfgang Goethe, “Shakespeare Once Again”

Week 11 Theatre and Secularization (German Romantic Theatre) Tues (11/1) Georg Buchner, Woyzeck

Thurs (11/3) Nasrullah Mambrol, “Analysis of Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck,” Literary Theory and Criticism: https://literariness.org/2020/07/30/analysis-of-georg-buchners-woyzeck/

Week 12 Theatre and Metropolitanism (Early Nineteenth-century European Theatre) Tues (11/8) Arthur Murphy, The Orphan of China

Thurs (11/10) Matthew White, “Georgian entertainment: from pleasure gardens to blood sports,” British Library: https://www.bl.uk/georgian-britain/articles/georgian-entertainment-from-pleasure-gardens-to-blood-sports

Week 13 Melodrama and Race (Nineteenth-century Atlantic Theatre) Tues (11/15) Ira Aldridge, The Black Doctor

Thurs (11/17) Sarah Hovde, “Ira Aldridge takes the stage,” Shakespeare & Beyond: https://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2017/02/17/ira-aldridge/ “Ira Aldridge: Theatrical Trailblazer”: https://www.chesapeakeshakespeare.com/ira/

Week 14 Peer Review Tues (11/22) Peer Review

    Thurs (11/24)   College Closed

Week 15 The Crisis of the Self Tues (11/29) Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler

Thurs (12/1) David Krasner, “Introduction,” in A History of Modern Drama

Week 16 The Crisis of the Self Tues (12/6) Anton Chekhov, The Seagull

Thurs (12/8) Wrap Up

Week 17 Showcase
Tues (12/13) Showcase of fictional theatre review

Thurs (12/15-21) Final Examination period

Draft, A BLACK MILITANT POEM SPEAKS

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