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Topics in Theatre Research

  • DRAM3103
  • One Semester
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Compulsory Third Year Course (Capstone). As its name suggests, this course examines theatre's engagement with themes of violence and conflict, and theatre's subsequent potential to affect its audiences viscerally. Starting with the Greeks, we trace our way though some of the most extreme plays in the canon, touching on Roman theatre, Medieval and Renaissance theatre, the nineteenth-century gothic, sensational melodramas, and contemporary iterations of violence on stage, to investigate how certain tropes and approaches have reoccurred or changed over time. Students will read accompanying critical theory and will have the opportunity to develop their own individual research projects. This... -- Course Website

Instructor: Dr Stephen Carleton



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