ENGL 815 - Festival and Drama

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Trinity College

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Description:

This course will examine ways in which performance is in many cultures linked to the festivals of many different kinds. More basically, it will examine the ethos of what can be called "the festival world" in contrast to the "workaday world." We will consider ways of regulating time (festival time vs. clock time), the demands of vocation vs. leisure, play vs. work. In addition to studying festival drama, we will examine the idea of festivity and play as establishing an alternative to the "public" world of politics and vocation in selected works of literature. Specific works to be studied will include Euripedes' Antigone in the context of Greek festivals, German faschtnachspiele, or carnival plays by Han Sachs, Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part I, and Dickens' Hard Times. Particular attention will be paid to Caribbean Carnival as street theater, evolving from emancipation festivals in the 19th century. For English majors, this course satisfies the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written before 1800 or a literary theory 1.00 units, Lecture

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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