History of the Theatre II

(1 Credit Hour) · Undergraduate

This course is a continuation from last semester's introduction to the history of theatre. From antiquity to modern French playwrights, the course examines the origins of certain genres (most notably, tragedy and comedy) and the way their interpretation has changed according to new developments in French thought and style. The course takes a comparative approach to text analysis which helps mark the distinction between historical conceptions of catharsis, tragedy, vraisemblance, and theatrical rules, and modern French interpretations of these.