Literature 2022 - The Making of Modern Theater

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Bard College

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Theater This introductory course traces the emergence of distinctively "modern" forms of theater in late19th- and 20-century Europe. Students engage closely with a number of major dramatic texts whose importance in this process is widely recognized. Attention is paid to the fact that theater is not a textual genre, but an embodied "practice" played out in "real time" and in a concrespace. How does a playwright such asWilde, Brecht, or Beckett exploit this fundamental fact? To what problems or concerns do their formal strategies respond? Why do the performance practices of avant-garde movements, such as Futurism or Dada, seek to break down the boundaries between theater and other art forms? Readings include plays by Büchner, Jarry, Strindberg, Pirandello, Handke, and Müller.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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