Theatrical Genres:

(4 Credits)

The course (different each time) explores one or more distinctive theatrical genres such as tragedy or comedy, melodrama, satire, or farce, or plays of distinctive theatrical types, such as theatre of the absurd, the documentary play, theatre of witness. Since theatrical genres and theatrical types come into being because playwrights respond to historical necessity by visualizing specific worldviews, the course presents a study of the role and function of the theatre within societies, as response to historical, psychological, and spiritual forces.