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| 9/5 |
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Introduction
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| Part I -- Restoration comedy |
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| 9/10 |
(M) |
Dryden, Marriage à la Mode (1671) |
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| 9/12 |
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Dryden, cont.
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*Visser, “Scenery and Technical Design” (optional)
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| 9/17 |
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Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675) (RP)
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| 9/19 |
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Wycherley, cont. |
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*Roach, “The Performance” |
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| 9/24 |
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Etherege, The Man of Mode (1676) (RP) |
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*Natural blocking |
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| 9/26 |
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Etherege, cont. |
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*Steele on Wycherley, Etherege and sentimental comedy
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| 10-1 |
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Congreve, The Way of the World (1700) (RP) |
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| 10/3 |
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Congreve, cont. |
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*Collier and the debate on morality |
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Essay #1 (3-5pp.) due in class |
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| Part II -- Marriage stratagems |
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| 10/8 |
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Farquhar, The Beaux’ Stratagem (1707) (RP) |
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| 10/10 |
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Farquhar, cont. |
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*Lichtenberg on Garrick as Archer |
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| 10/15 |
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Centlivre, A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718) |
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| 10/17 |
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Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773)
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*Cross-class dressing: Richardson’s Pamela (1740) |
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| 10/22 |
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Goldsmith, cont. |
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*Goldsmith on sentimental comedy |
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| 10/24 |
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Shaw, Pygmalion (1913) |
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| Part III -- Celebrity culture--the later eighteenth
century |
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| 10/29 |
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*Nahum Tate, King Lear (1681) |
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*Johnson, “Notes on King Lear” |
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*Dobson, from The Making of the National Poet |
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*Franklin, from Shakespeare Domesticated |
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| 10/31 |
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*Johnson, “Prologue” (1747)
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*Garrick, The Jubilee (1769) |
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| 11/5 |
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NO CLASS |
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| 11/7 |
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*Excerpts on acting styles (Gildon, Betterton, Cibber, Hill,
Garrick, etc.) |
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*Garrick as Hamlet: Fielding’s Tom Jones (1749)
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*Diderot, “Paradox on Acting” (1773-78)
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*Roach, from The Player’s Passion
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| 11/9 |
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Shakespeare research assignment due |
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| 11/12 |
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Sheridan, The Rivals (1775)
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| 11/14 |
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Sheridan, The School for Scandal (1777) |
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*Drury Lane, inventories, costumes, theatrical lighting |
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| 11/19 |
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Sheridan, cont. |
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| 11/21 |
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NO CLASS (Thanksgiving)
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| Part IV -- The theater of empire |
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| 11/26 |
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Behn, Oroonoko (1688) |
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| 11/28 |
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*Southerne, Oroonoko (1695) |
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| 12/3 |
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*Bandele, Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1999) |
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| 12/5 |
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*Burke, “Speech in Opening the Impeachment of Warren
Hastings” (1788)
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*Suleri, from The Rhetoric of English India |
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| 12/10 |
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*Sheridan, Pizarro (1799) |
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*Artaud, from The Theater of Cruelty |
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| 12/12 |
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Final essay (7-10pp.) due |
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