The place of performance
P Fitzpatrick
6 points * 2.5 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton
This subject examines, through a study of a range of texts from different periods, the relationship of written text to performance as it is influenced by the theatrical context for which the play was written. The analysis of the performance place will be, in the first instance, primarily historical. But the consideration of some modern reworkings will involve a concern with performance processes and traditions in themselves, and with the procedures by which they might be defined and clarified.
Assessment
Examination (2 hours): 50% * Essay (1000 words): 25% * Seminar folio: 25%
Prescribed texts
Bond Lear Methuen
Cawley (ed.) Away Currency
Harrison The mysteries Faber
Shakespeare King Lear New Penguin
Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream New Penguin
Tourneur `The Revenger's Tragedy' in Three Jocobean Tragedies Penguin
Second-year level