IDENTIFYING DATA

2014_15

Subject (*)

ENGLISH THEATRE

Code

12142218

Study programme

English Studies (2001)

Cycle

2nd

Descriptors

Credits

Theory credits

Practical credits

Type

Year

Period

4.5

1.5

Optional

Language

Anglès

Department

Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys

Coordinator

LAMARCA MARGALEF, JORGE

E-mail

jordi.lamarca@urv.cat

Lecturers

LAMARCA MARGALEF, JORGE

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General description and relevant information

The aims of this course are. ) To examine representative works of drama; b) To learn the principal techniques for analyizing, understanding, evaluating and enjoying a play both as a literary construc and spectacle; and c) To improve the student´s ability to read critically and pleasurably
In this subject you only have the right to make the exam, because the degree you are studying is going to be extinguished. You have to take a look the timetable of the subject to know the exam's date. If you need an extraordinary exam session, you have to enrol for this, presenting an application to the secretariat of your campus or faculty.

Continguts

Topic	Sub-topic
MacBeth The Importance of Being Earnest	Introduction to Shakespeare Elizabethan Drama Imagery and Symbols Theme and Content Introduction to Oscar Wilde Romantic and Realistic Drama Form and Content Aesthetics and Ethics
An Inspector Calls	Introduction to J.B. Priestley Irony Verisimilitude Drawing-rom Comedy
Waiting for Godot	Introduction to S. Beckett Tthe Absurd Theatre. Drama and Stage Conventions
Introduction to American Drama	Early Tweentieth-Century Drama Realism and lyricism Tennessee Willimas, A Street Car Named Desire. From Modernism to Postmodernism Edward Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf Ethnic Theatre Race, gender and society Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun

Atenció personalitzada

Description

Please stop by my office any time. I´ll be glad to hrlp you in any academic matter you may have.

Avaluació

Other comments and second exam session

The students who do not reach the 50% of the above-mentiones requirements will have a scheduled second chance, as well as those who have not opted for the continuous assessment. This second chance will be the same for all the students (both those who filed the continuous assessment and those who opted for it, and will consist of 20 questions (100%) about all the units included in the syllabus (short definitions of concepts, identifications of names, titles, characters, short contextualizations of excertps of the texts analyzed in class ...).

Fonts d'informació

Basic	Montgomery, Martin et alia, Ways of Reading, 2000, Routledge Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 2000, Penguin Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party , 2000, Penguin Tennessee Williams , A Street Car Named Desire, 2000, Penguin Edward Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 2010, Penguin Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun, 2012, A Signet Book

Complementary

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