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116-221/321 Tragedy and Comedy in French Theatre

Availability: Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 16.7 2nd or 3rd year

Coordinator: To be advised.

Prerequisite: 116-115 or 116-202, or equivalent.

Contact: 2 one-hour lectures and one one-hour tutorial.

Objectives:

At the end of the subject, students should be able to:

• analyse a play using different recent methods;
• show a knowledge of the evolution of French theatre;
• demonstrate a general understanding of the social, political and ideological context of each play.

Content:

A variety of plays from different centuries will be analysed. The structure of tragedy will be explored from Corneille, Racine to the contemporary dramas of Anouilh or Beckett; the evolution of comedy will be studied from Moliè re to Ionesco. This study will be related to the recent analysis of dramaturgy.

Assessment:

One class paper (2,000 words) (40 per cent); one essay (3,000 words) in French (60 per cent).

Prescribed texts:

• Only part of these works will be selected each year
• Corneille L'Illusion comique or Horace ed. Bordas 1984
• Racine Phè dre or Andromaque Larousse 1983
• Moliè re Les Fourberies de Scapin or Don Juan Larousse 1975
• Marivaux Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard Larousse 1985
• Anouilh Antigone Ed. de La Table ronde 1988
• Montherlant La Reine morte Gallimard 1959
• Sartre Huis Clos or Les Mouches Gallimard 1959
• Beckett En attendant Godot Ed. de Minuit 1952

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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 80)

Status:          Official 1996
Date created:    Oct  9 1995
Last modified:   Oct  9 1995
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