Learning Outcomes:
1. Understanding the key features of Early Modern comedy; the context of classical comedy, the typical staging and production in the Early Modern theatre; the sub genres of comedy in the era
2. Be able to identify and analyse how plays use and adapt the tropes of Early Modern comedy, and make comparative evaluations of how different plays either use or subvert these tropes
3. Being able to analyse and evaluate productions and adaptation of Early Modern Plays; being able to analyse how these productions stage the source material for a modern audience; be able to produce ones own suggestions for adaptation and staging of the source material and defend how their own adaptation presents and interprets the original play for a new audience