Offered each semester. Topics change as needs and resources develop. May be repeated for academic credit when topics change. A study of the literature, architecture, performance styles, and cultural impact of theater beginning with the Neoclassical period and continuing thorough the late Nineteenth Century. Offered spring of odd-numbered years.
Topics change as needs and resources develop.
May be repeated for academic credit when topic changes. Playwrights of Black, Latin American, Asian, and Native American background will be featured. Theories dealing with identity politics will be introduced. A study of the dramatic texts, performance styles, audience reception, theater architecture and cultural impact of theater in the Twentieth Century. Major artistic movements such Realism, Expressionism, and Postmodernism will be featured.