DR 604 Dramatic Structures I
Historical and comparative exploration of significant plays in major periods in Western drama. The historic sequence of plays is intersected with responses to them from throughout the ages in plays and theories. For example, the Medea works of Seneca and Heiner Muller are juxtaposed and examined in light of feminist and semiotic readings; Sophocles and Euripides are read in conjunction with Aristotle, Nietzsche, and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus; the Don Juans of Tirso de Molina, Moliere, Mozart, and Shaw are juxtaposed, considered in light of contemporary productions, and read with Kierkegaard. Contextual readings are not limited to dramatic theory.