Theatre in The French Tradition

(4 Credits)

Study of the theatrical genre in France, including the golden age playwrights (Corneille, Racine, Moli?re); 18th-century irony and sentiment; and the 19th-century theatrical revolution. Topics include theories of comedy and tragedy; development of stagecraft; romanticism and realism; and the theatre as a public genre, its relationship to taste and fashion, and its sociopolitical function.