DRAM10010

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should be able to: identify and discuss a range of theatrical conventions, evaluate and situate the different historical genres covered, analyse theatrical texts in terms of performance conventions, test and practically investigate how conventions work on stage.

Indicative Module Content:

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Greek Tragedy: Context and Convention

Week 3: Sophocles' Antigone

Week 4: Medieval Theatre: Context and Convention

Week 5: Everyman

Week 6: Neoclassical Theatre: Context and Convention

Week 7: Molière's Tartuffe

Week 8: Reading Week

Week 9: Restoration Theatre: Context and Convention

Week 10: Aphra Behn's The Rover

Week 11: Realistic Theatre: Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya

Week 12: Conclusion and Exam preparation

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Small group learning involving discussion, short question sheets, and one-on-one feedback on assignments. Also lectures where broader contextual themes will be outlined and the plays put into historical perspective.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Learning Requirements:

Leaving Cert Higher Level or equivalent

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy

 

Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Self-assessment activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback on individual progress is given in SGT's and through continuous assessment actitives. Mid-term assignment feedback to students will be provided post-asssessment. This can be through different approaches such as oral, audio, video and or written/annotated feedback, either in-class, out of class, in meetings, through the VLE, by email, using rubrics, etc.

Selection of secondary readings

Pat Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Richard Beadle and Alan J. Fletcher (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

David Brady and Andrew Calder (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Moliere (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Deborah Payne Fisk (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Derek Hughes and Janet M Todd (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

J. L. Stan, Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Realism and Naturalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981).

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