DR 608 Western Theatre & Culture II
A study of theatrical production in two or three selected major periods in Western nations, such as ancient Greece and Elizabethan-Jacobean England (603) or eighteenth-century England and nineteenth-century America (608). Chief attention to the play in performance, to staging methods, theatre architecture, acting, audiences, production organization and finance, and all of these as they intersect with cultural processes. Students also are introduced to historiographical issues, such as periodization problems, and to cultural studies in race, gender, power, and class.