Postgraduate Course: Theatre and Society (ELCC11016)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will present the students with a variety of theatrical genres and theories in their historical context. It will start with a consideration of the unique place of theatre in relation to politics and censorship.
The progression will be chronological, from seventeenth-century French Neo-Classicism, through German Sturm und Drang, Schiller, Ibsen and Naturalism, and Hauptmann, to responses to the Holocaust in theatre and Natalia Ginzburg's productions in 1970s Italy.
The aim is to analyse and reflect on the way in which playwrights negotiate specific social contexts and to evaluate the evolution of drama as a cultural and political medium.
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| Course description |
French Neo-classical Drama, Spanish Theatre, Sturm und Drang, Naturalism, Russian/Soviet Avant Garde, Theatre and censorship under Franco, West German Theatre of the 1960s and the Holocaust, Ginzburg.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
Generally, the intended learning outcomes are similar to those outlined in the MSc core programme and include the ability to negotiate complex intellectual ideas, through debate as well as in essays, and to appreciate contrasting and evolving viewpoints. Intended learning outcomes specific to this course are:
* To analyse how theatre has been influenced by and has represented social issues through time and place.
* The ability to contextualise and frame texts through a historical perspective alongside the development of skills involved in immanent readings of texts
* The ability to understand text and performance as cultural and theoretical products
* The ability to analyse form and content and relate them to specific historical developments.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Theatre, Society, Politics, Censorship |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Laura Bradley
Tel: (0131 6)50 3634
Email: laura.bradley@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Heather Elliott
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Heather.Elliott@ed.ac.uk |
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