Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 57)
English subject : Next:106-234 | Prev:106-229 | Search | Help
106-232/332 "Modern Drama" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-234 | Prev:106-229
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd year
Coordinator: Tim Kelly.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial per week.
Timetable: Second semester
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
- closely familiar with the main authors, historic moments and geopolitical sites that are now seen to constitute the mainstream of the modern drama tradition;
- able to understand the developing theory of the modern stage which has attended the production of this drama;
- able to grasp the basic problems involved in thinking of drama as both text and stage performance;
- able to understand the political dimension of theatre in the modern period.
Content:
This subject studies texts and developments in 'Western' drama of this century, emphasising both the concepts and the practices of theatre in the period.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
1. English, Faculty of Arts (v3, p57) : Next:106-234 | Prev:106-229
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p102) : Next:106-234 | Prev:106-229
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Tim Kelly.
Contact: One 1-hour lecture and one 2-hour tutorial each week
Timetable: Second semester.
Objectives:
Students who complete this subject successfully will be:
- closely familiar with the main authors, historic moments and geopolitical sites that are now seen to constitute the mainstream of the modern drama tradition;
- able to understand the developing theory of the modern stage which has attended the production of this drama;
- able to grasp the basic problems involved in thinking of drama as both text and stage performance; and
- able to understand the political dimension of theatre in the modern period.
Content:
This subject studies texts and developments in "Western" drama of this century, emphasising both the concepts and the practices of theatre in the period.
Assessment:
Written work of not more than 5,000 words.
Prescribed texts:
* Note that CONTACT, CONTENT, OBJECTIVES, POINTS, PRESCRIBEDTEXTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. English, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p102) : Next:106-234 | Prev:106-229
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
Maintained by: Dept. of English, Faculty of Arts.
Copyright © University of Melbourne 1995,1996.