Literature 2733 - Ten Plays that Shook the World

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Bard College

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The plays analyzed in this course are considered milestones in the history of theater for their innovative use of language, form, thematic treatment, and the insight they provide into the human soul. The course begins in the classical period, with Sophocles' Antigone and Euripedes' The Trojan Women, and moves on to the Renaissance and the Age of Enlightenment with Shakespeare's Hamlet and Goethe' s Faust. Continuing along the axis of a pan-European modernism, students read Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Ibsen's A Doll's House , and Strindberg' The Dance of Death, and then examine more radical currents in Brecht's Mother Courage, Ionesco's The Bald Soprano, and Beckett's Waiting for Godot.

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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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