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| Week | Subject | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Theatre: Antecedents and Origins [Buchner; Wagner; Gesamtkunstwerk]; toward a modern consciousness | Required: Modernism,
19-93;
Wagner, "The Art-Work of the Future;" Williams, "When Was Modernism?" Buchner, Woyzeck Optional: Arnold Houser, V. II, ch. 3, "The Origins of the Domestic Drama," The Social History of Art |
| 2 | Realism; Naturalism; Becque; Zola | Modernism, 497-512;
Zola, "Naturalism on the Stage"; Lukacs, "The Sociology of Modern Drama;" Becque, The Vultures |
| 3 | The Dramaturgy of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekov | Ibsen, Brand, Peer Gynt, Rosmersholm; Strindberg, The Father, A dream Play |
| 4 | Symbolism | Modernism 206-27; Maeterlinck, Pelleas and Melisande; Acts 1-2; Acts 3-4; Act 5; Deak, "Symbolist Staging at the Theatre D'Art"; Roinard, Song of Songs of Solomon |
| 5 | Branches develop: Confrontation and Abstraction; Jarry; the Uses of an Avant-garde |
Modernism 191-205; Jarry, Ubu Roi |
| 6 | Appropriation of the Avant-garde; Meyerhold; Reinhardt | |
| 7 | Futurism |
Required: Modernism 243-73; Nichols, Ch. 5; Kruchenykh, Victory Over the Sun ; Marinetti, The "Variety Theatre" Manifesto Optional Gerould, "Eisenstein's Wiseman," and Eisenstein, "Montage of Attractions;" Cangiullo, "The Lady-Killer and the Four Seasons" |
| 8 | Dada | Modernism 292-308; Tzara, The Gas Heart Nichols, Ch. 10 |
| 9 | Surrealism |
Manifestoes: "Open the Prisons! Disband the Army;" "Declaration of 27 January 1925;" "La Revolution Surrealiste;" Apollinaire, The Breasts of Tiresias Cocteau, The Wedding on the Eiffel Tower |
| 10 | Expressionsim | Modernism 274-90; Rubiner, "Man in the Center;" Kornfeld, "Epilogue to the Actor;" Kokoschka, Murderer the Woman's Hope; Nichols, 136-161 |
| 11 | Dance; Mime and visual Theatre; Bahaus | TBA |
| 12 | Artaud and the Inter-war Years | Artaud, The Theater and its Double, 7-100;
Jet of Blood Weiss, Marat Sade Genet, The Maids; The Balcony |
| 13 | Brecht, Marxism, and Modernism |
Brecht,
"The Street Scene" and "The Modern Theatre is the Epic Theatre"; Baal; Man is Man |
| 14 | Absurdism, Existentialism and Beyond |
Required: Esslin, "Introductions"
and "The Significance of the Absurd," The Theatre of the Absurd; Pinter, Old Times; Camus, Caligula Optional: Esslin, Chapters on Pinter |
| 15 | From Modernism to Post-modernism | TBA |