Learning Outcomes:
Learning Outcomes are as follows:(1) To arrive at an informed knowledge of many of the key texts of the Early Irish Theatre Movement;(2) To understand the differences as well as the similarities in the dramatic, social and political aims of the founders;(3) To have an informed historical understanding of the cultural and political forces operating at the time of the plays' original productions;(4) To have considered the resonances of these plays in the present moment;(5) To produce a critcal assessment of the work or one or two of these playwrights, showing distinctly what they contributed.
Indicative Module Content:
Week One 1/24 Introduction (Clara Mallon and Fiona Charleton)
Week Two 1/31Yeats and Lady Gregory Cathleen Ni Houlihan (Fiona Charleton)
Week Three 2/7 J.M Synge Riders to the Sea (Clara Mallon)
Week Four 2/14, Lady Gregory, The Gaol Gate, The Workhouse Ward (Fiona Charleton)
Week Five 2/21 J.M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western World; (Clara Mallon)
Week Six 2/28 George Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island (Clara Mallon)
(IMPORTANT: Midterm in-class report. Please see questions in Assignment tab on Blackboard)
Week Seven 3/7 W.B. Yeats, At the Hawk’s Well (Fiona Charleton)
READING WEEK (3/9 – 3/26)
Week Ten 3/28 Sean O’Casey, Juno and the Paycock (Fiona Charleton)
Week Eleven 4/4 W.B. Yeats, Purgatory (Clara Mallon)
Week Twelve 4/11 Teresa Deevy Katie Roche (Fiona Charleton)
Week Thirteen 4/18 Samuel Beckett, Krapp’s Last Tape (Clara Mallon)