Early Modern Theatre

Drama and performance of Asia, Europe, and the United States from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Focus on new audiences, technologies, and dramaturgical techniques and how theatre negotiated changing views of ethnicity, gender, sexuality, religion, class, nationalism, and other social constructs. Topics include the popular theatre of the European Renaissance and Japan, Neoclassicism, eighteenth-century theatre in Europe and China, melodrama, and Romanticism. Exploration of these issues through a close examination of approximately twenty plays, related critical readings, research, presentations and discussions. May be taken before TPS 10 and/or TPS 12.