Survey of post-Restoration theatrical culture, history and production forms. Students will examine theatrical history and expression in China and Japan, the European continent, and the United States. The course will cover Restoration and Sentimental Drama, Romantic theatre and opera, melodrama and poetic spectacle, Realism, Naturalism, Chinese Opera, Kabuki and Bunraku, and the independent theatre movement. The approach will be a documentary one. Students will read specific play texts in conjunction with primary evidence, textural and pictorial, using both to illuminate the creation and history of theatre.
CL General Education: Creative and Artistic Practices
Term Offered
Spring Only
Odd Years