STUDENT PORTAL | THEATRE HISTORY
This course seeks to facilitate an introduction to theatre history by exploring some of the origins of world theatre through to the Renaissance period, examining both theatrical periods and seminal texts. An emphasis is placed on theatrical texts as the core of the curriculum; both within their respective historical contexts as well as analyzing form and dramatic structure from a performative and literary perspective.
*Missing lectures on Origins of Development of Theatre, What is Theatre?, Greek Theatre & Aristotle, Aristotles ‘Poetics’, Aeschylus and Agamemnon, Understanding Heightened Texts, Sophocles and Electra, Comparison of Electra and Libation Bearers, Greek Comedy, Aristophanes and Menander, Peloponnesian War, Aristophanes and Lysistrata, Plautus and Menaechmi, Ancient Egyptian Theatre, Classical South American Theatre (Maya, Inca, Aztec, etc), Classical Indian Drama & Ancient Sanskrit Theatre, Traditional Chinese Theatre/Chinese Opera.