THEATER 310 - Survey of Drama

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Survey of Drama courses, which study the major styles and periods in drama from a literary, stylistic, and performance perspective, are at the center of the Theater Program. They are practical courses, applying text to scene work. All theater majors take four such courses over two years. Recent Survey of Drama courses have included African American Theater, 1858 - Present; The American Musical; Beckett, Brecht, and Pirandello; Blackface Minstrelsy in the Making of America; Büchner and Strindberg; Chekhov and His Predecessors; Dissent and Its Performance; Feminist Theater; French Neoclassicism; German Theater; The Greeks; Grotesque in Theater; Ibsen, Shaw, and O'Neill; Jacobean Theater; Japanese Theater; Performance Art in Theory and Practice; Philosophies of Acting: Stanislavsky, Brecht, and Grotowski; Post-Colonial Theater; Shakespeare; TennesseeWilliams; Theater of the Absurd; Women Playwrights in History; and Yiddish Theater.

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4.00

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Instructional Type:

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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