COMPLIT122
Literature as Performance:
Comparative Literature
H&S - Humanities & Sciences
Course Description
Focus is on the evolution of dramatic literature through some of its great milestones from antiquity to present. Readings include selected plays (alongside video recordings/film adaptations) and secondary works on theater and performance. Through readings, discussion, and written work, students will analyze theater as an embodied genre that moves in time, space and thought. Works by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Beckett, Ibsen, Hansberry, Williams, and Soyinka.
Grading Basis
RLT - Letter (ABCD/NP)
Min
5
Max
5
Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?
No
Course Component
Discussion
Enrollment Optional?
Yes
Course Component
Seminar
Enrollment Optional?
No
Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?
No
Programs
COMPLIT122
is a
completion requirement
for: