Class Schedule - Drama 504

EARLY AMERICAN THEATRE AND DRAMA

Class Schedule
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Readings Chart

Walter Meserve, On Stage, America!	A
Jeffrey Richards, Early American Drama	B
David Grimsted, Melodrama Unveiled: American Theatre and Culture, 1800-1850	C
Karen Halttunen, Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870	D
Bruce McConachie, Melodramatic formations: American Theatre & Society, 1820-1870	E
Xerox Copies: Fiske-Kimball Fine Arts Library	F
*Richard Moody, Drama from the American Theatre [The Mulligan Guard Ball]: Reserve Readings: Fiske-Kimball*	G
*John Gassner, Best Plays of the Early American Theatre: Reserve Readings: Fiske-Kimball*	H
*T.P. Taylor, The Bottle* in Performing Arts Resources 16**	J
Benjamin McArthur, Actors and American Culture, 1880-1920	K

DATE	SUBJECT	READING
8/30	Overview of the Course
9/1	Theatre in New York: History to 1850 {Slide Lecture}
9/4	Interpreting the Theatrical Past: Toward a *New Historicism*	Flynn, "Melting Plots: Patterns of Racial and Ethnic Amalgamation in American Drama Before Eugene O'Neill." [F] Hall, "Notes on Deconstructing 'The Popular'" [F] McConachie, "Towards A Postpositivist Theatre History" [F]
9/6	Playtext as Social Document	Bank, "Melodrama as a Social Document: Factors in the American Frontier Play."[F] Grimsted, "Melodrama as Echo of the Historically Voiceless." [F]
9/8	Research in American Theatre I: An Introduction
9/11	Theatre and National Identity I: The Stage Yankee - Hero and/or Trickster?	*Tyler, The Contrast* [A,B] Thompson, The Old Homestead [G] Hodge, Prologue to Yankee Theatre [F]**
9/13	Theatre and National Identity I: The Stage Yankee - Hero and/or Trickster?	Frick, "Anti-intellectualism and Representations of 'Commonness' in the Nineteenth -Century American Theatre." [F] Halttunen, chapters 1 &2 Hofstadter, selections from Anti- intellectualism in American Life. [F] {Optional}
9/15	Research in American Theatre II: Resources [Meet at Fine Arts Library]
9/18	Theatre and National Identity II: The Native- American on the American Stage - Between Historical Fact and Cultural Myth	Stone, Metamora, or the Last of the *Wampanoags [G]* Mason, "The Politics of Metamora" [F]
9/20	Theatre and National Identity II: The Native- American on the American Stage - Between Historical Fact and Cultural Myth	*Barker, The Indian Princess* [B] Wilmeth, "Noble or Ruthless Savage? The American Indian on Stage and in the Drama" [F]**
9/22	Melodrama and Nineteenth-century Culture	Grimsted, Melodrama Unveiled: American Theatre and Culture, 1800-1850, 171-241 [C] *Daly, Under the Gaslight* [A]**
9/25	Melodrama and Nineteenth-century Culture	*Grimsted, Melodrama Unveiled, 1-75* McConachie, Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre & Society, 1820-1870, 1-63 [E]
9/27	Melodrama and Nineteenth-century Culture	McConachie, Melodramatic Formations, 65-155
9/29	Research in American Theatre III: Introduction to Special Collections [Meet in The lobby of Alderman Library NLT 8:50]
10/2	Perceptions of City Culture and the Nineteenth-century Theatre	Boyer, "The Jacksonian Era" and "The Urban Threat Emerges, from Urban Masses and Moral Order in America. [F] *Baker, A Glance at New York* [A]**
10/4	Perceptions of City Culture and the Nineteenth-century Theatre	Susman, "The City in American Culture," *from Culture as History. [F]*
10/6	Directed Research: Alderman Library
10/9	Sentimental Culture and the Problem of Fashion	*Mowett, Fashion* [A, B] Halttunen, Chapters 3&4 [D]**
10/11	The Nineteenth-century Actor and Acting I: Work and Status	TBA, selections from Benjamin McArthur, Actors and American Culture. [F]
10/13	Theatre and National Identity III: Race on the Nineteenth-century Stage	*Aiken, Uncle Tom's Cabin* [A] McConachie, "Out of the Kitchen and into** the Marketplace: Normalizing Uncle Tom's Cabin for the Ante-bellum Stage" [F]
10/16	Theatre and National Identity III: Race on the Nineteenth-century Stage	*Boucicault, The Octoroon* [A]**
10/18	Popular Entertainment I: The Minstrel Show	Lott, “’The Seeming Counterfeit’: Racial Politics and Early Blackface Minstrelsy” [F]
10/20	Directed Research: Alderman Library
10/23	NO CLASS – FALL BREAK
10/25	Theatre and Social Reform; Temperance Activism	W.H. Smith & a "Gentleman,"The Drunkard [B, G] Frick, "'He Drank from the Poisoned Cup': Theatre, Culture and Temperance Reform in Ante-bellum America" [F]
10/27	Directed Research: Alderman Library
10/30	Theatre and Social Reform; Temperance Activism	*Taylor, The Bottle* [J] Gorn, "Good Bye Boys, I Die a True American." {Optional} [F]** Hofstadter, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. [F]
11/1	Theatre and the Construction of Gender: Women in the Nineteenth-Century Theatre	Roberts, "'Lady Managers' in Nineteenth- century American Theatre" [F] Johnson, "That Guilty Third Tier. Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Theaters." [F] Londre, "Money Without Glory: Turn-of- the-Century Woman Playwrights" [F]
11/3	Directed Research: Alderman Library
11/6	The Nineteenth-century Actor and Acting II: Styles of Performance	Viewing: Joseph Jefferson III in Rip Van Winkle James O'Neill in The Count of Monte Cristo Readings: Rip Van Winkle [A] {Optional} Charles Fechter, The Count of Monte Cristo [H] {Optional}
11/8	From Stage to Screen	Viewing: D.W. Griffith, Birth of a Nation Reading: Bronson Howard, Shenandoah {Optional}
11/10	Viewing: PBS Special on Vaudeville
11/13	Popular Entertainment II: The Dime Museum	McNamara, "A Congress of Wonders" [F] Stulman-Dennett, Preface to Weird and Wonderful. [F]
11/15	Theatre in New York: History to 1900: The Emergence of a Theatre District {Slide Lecture}
11/17	Directed Research: Alderman Library
11/20	Popular Entertainment III: Vaudeville	TBA
11/22, 11/24	NO CLASS - THANKSGIVING
11/27	Theatre and National Identity: Representing Ethnicity on the Nineteenth Century Stage	Harrigan & Hart, The Mulligan Guard Ball [G]
11/29	Theatre in New York: Centralization {The Syndicate, the Shuberts, the UBO}	Frick, “A Changing Theatre: New York *And Beyond, 1870-1940.” The Cambridge History of American Theatre,* Vol. II {L}**
12/1	The American Actor at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century: Professionalization {Actors' Equity and the Strike of 1919}	TBA, selections from Benjamin McArthur, Actors and American Culture. [F]
12/4	Realism and Social Consciousness	*Downer, Waiting for O'Neill* [F] Sheldon, Salvation Nell [H]**
12/6	Realism and Social Consciousness	*Moody, The Great Divide* [F & G] DeMastes, selections from Realism and the** American Dramatic Tradition. [F]
12/8	Realism and Social Consciousness	*James A. Herne, Margaret Fleming* [G] Susman, "Personality and the Making of Twentieth-century Culture" [F]**

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