INTRODUCTION TO MODERN DRAMA G-2060-02201 FALL 2007

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INTRODUCTION TO MODERN DRAMA G-2060-02201 FALL 2007

CLASS: WEDNESDAY 9:10-12:00 THEATER

Dr. Llyn Scott (Office Hours 8:00-9:00; 1:00-4:00 Mon-Fri) Library College Theater

Email engl1014@mails.fju.edu.tw (O) 2905-2524

Required Textbook: M. Barranger. Understanding Plays. 3

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Edition at Caves Bookstore Extra reading texts (provided): Sam Shepard, True West; Wendy Wasserstein, The Heidi Chronicles and Other Plays (Uncommon Women and Others)

Plays and Internet Links will be added

"A class in which students face the problems of evil and pain depicted in modern drama."

DATE CLASS TOPIC NEXT PREP

READING NEXT PLAY

READING HOMEWK

DUE 09-19 Theater & the

Problem of Evil Tragedy,193- 201; 226-232;

Book of Job, OT

Oedipus the

King,Sophocles O PAPER Due 10-03 09-26 Oedipus and

Job Q&A Drama's written and verbal texts 4-21; 97-103;

146-153; Ibsen Modernism 367- 369;371-373

Hedda Gabler 1890; Refer to Hamlet 1600

HG PAPER Due 10-09*

10-03 Hedda Gabler

Q&A 20

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Century

readings Refer to Cherry Orchard1904;Glas s Menagerie1945

Due HG paper Tues.

10-10 Holiday

10-17 HG Film &

Oral Critique Holocaust

documentaries Refer to Diary of

Ann Frank 1955 AF GRAD PANEL*

Due 10-24

10-24 Ann Frank

Panel w/Film

APPX 709-714 Wilson 419-427

Fences 1985 F PAPER

Due 11-07 10-31 Fences Lecture

w/film viewing Brecht 474-478 Galileo 1947 G PAPER Due 11-21 11-07 Galileo Q&A Beckett 515-520;

523-526 Footfalls 1976 FF PAPER

Due 12-05 11-14 MT MT Test &

Galileo film 11-21 White Light/

Black Rain Film viewing

The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Due G paper

Review Beckett

11-28 Footfalls Q&A

w/Beckett film Feminist theater

529-533 Wasserstein,

Uncommon Women U PAPER

Due 12-12

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viewing 1977

12-05 Uncommon

Women Q&A w/Film Heidi Chronicles

Due FF Paper Docudrama 568- 576; 611-615

Refer to Smith, Fires in the Mirror 1993

FM GRAD PANEL*

Due 12-12 12-12 Fires in the

Mirror Panel &

FIM film

Interculturalism

641-647 Machado, Broken

Eggs 1984 BE PAPER

Due 12-26 12-19 Broken Eggs

Q&A w/Cuban culture film

Asian American 673-678;702-705

David Henry Hwang, Golden Child 1998

GC PAPER Due 01-09 12-26 Documentary

Lejos de la Isla

Due BE paper David Henry Hwang playwright

Solo Speech 01-02 Golden Child

Q&A

Postmodernism 707

Theater & Problem of Evil Revisited

01-09 Solo Speeches Due GC paper REVIEW REVIEW

01-16 Final Final Test

Assignments and Percentages

Play Analysis Papers (5-7 pages, typed/double-spaced) 8 40%

Graduate Student Panels 2 (if applicable)

MT Test 20%

FINAL Test 20%

Solo Speech (any topic related to plays and films) 1 10%

Class Q&A Participation (recorded times of comment) 10%

Requirements Attendance

Textbooks

Promptness

Readiness

Willingness