Reading Modern Drama

<p>In-person Course. This seminar reads illustrative texts of dramatic literature from the Anglo-European world in, roughly, the twentieth century and the two adjacent "turns of the century."&#160; We will read with an eye toward discovering the unique ways authors adjusted theatrical form, content, and event to new conditions of modernity.&#160; Our specific focus will be close-reading plays, looking at how playwrights create worlds through devices such as plot, characterization, imagery, etc., as well as through the conception of the audience/performer relationship; considerations of time, tempo, musicality; visual dramaturgy; non-linearity and repetition; coding and transcribing; and other dramaturgical devices that took on unique importance and new forms in the modern era.&#160; We will read one play a week, establishing its historical context and examining different approaches of playwriting and world-making.&#160;1 Credit. Session B: July 1 – August 2. Tuition: $5070.</p>