History of Theatre1700- Present

THEA 5 - 93069SPRING 2017

Instructor: Sheila Malone, MFA, PhDwww.professormalone.com

Syllabus

What is History?

What is Historiography?

What is Historiography?

• The study of the writing of history and of written histories.

What is Theatre Historiography?

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What is Theatre Historiography?

• Theater historiography means the study of the foundational assumptions, principles, and methodologies that determine how theater history is written. To practice theater historiography means to look beyond the record of “what happened” to analyze how and why such records are constructed.

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Erasures of The Other

• What narratives are forgotten?

• What narratives are rewritten?

• What narratives are missing?

Modes of Analysis other possibilities

• Deconstruction

• Feminist Theories/critique

• Cultural Studies

• Marxist Analysis

• Queer Theory

• Postcolonial Theory

Who makes history? (word cloud exercise)

• playwrights

• plays

• Theatre genres

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nosJVTuCHFk History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nosJVTuCHFk

Review of Neoclassical Tenets in Theatre

NeoClassical Tenets

The Form

·        Verisimilitude

·        Purity of the Dramatic Form

·        Five Act Form

·        Decorum

·        Purpose of Drama

source: http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

Verisimilitude

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

Purity of the Dramatic

Form

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

Five Act Form

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

Decorum

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

Purpose of Drama

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/thea101/chapters/chapter_16.htm

Wednesday: The

Enlightenment & School For Scandal