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Play Script Analysis SCHEDULE SP 2017

This document outlines the schedule and assignments for a Play Script Analysis class during the Spring 2017 semester. It lists the weekly topics to be covered such as Greek theatre, Shakespeare, comedy, and modern plays. It also includes the assigned readings, due dates for projects and assignments, and other important information for each week. The semester culminates with a final exam and presentation of an original script.

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Play Script Analysis SCHEDULE SP 2017

This document outlines the schedule and assignments for a Play Script Analysis class during the Spring 2017 semester. It lists the weekly topics to be covered such as Greek theatre, Shakespeare, comedy, and modern plays. It also includes the assigned readings, due dates for projects and assignments, and other important information for each week. The semester culminates with a final exam and presentation of an original script.

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Play Script Analysis

Spring 2017
Class meetings Schedule

Date Topic Reading Assignments/Due


projects
Other information
Week 1 Intro , Syllabus
Tuesday
01-10
01-12 How We Understand Rush Readings-What is a
Plays Play? (eLearning)
Week 2 Elements of Tragedy Poetics, Aristotle A: Greek project
Tuesday Greek Theatre structures Related readings
01-17 eLearning Poetics
01-19 Parts of Tragedy Fliostos, Chapter 2 R:
Beginning Middle End Oedipus
Vocabulary of Greek Rush Readings-Genres Agamemnon
(eLearning) Medea

Week 3 The Plays: Oedipus


Tuesday Oedipus Quiz: Greeks
01-24 Agamemnon (eLearning)
Medea
01-26 Comedy in Greeks and D: Greek Project
Beyond
Week 4 Ball Analysis-the reverse R:
Tuesday of usual expectations Backwards and
01-31 Forwards, David Ball
02-02 Ball : Triggers and Heaps, R:
Causality (a.k.a. the Backwards and
Because) Forwards, David Ball
Week 5 No class No class
Tuesday Scholarship Day
02-07
02-09 Ball : Shape, Flow, a play R: O: Palette of
(TBA) Backwards and Possibility
Forwards, David Ball this weekend BMT

Week 6 Beyond the Greeks, Not Commedia Dell Arte on O: Tour Palette
Tuesday Quite Shakespeare eLearning
02-14 Quiz: Ball,
Backwards and
Forwards
(eLearning)

02-16 The Sounds of eLearning: verbal R: Twelfth Night


Shakespeare Verse, conceits, Figures of Hamlet
language, figures of speech & related Shakespeare Star
speech Shakespeare information Wars (eLearning)
A: Shakespeare
project
Tuesday Imagery in Shakespeare Sonnets
02-21
02-23 More Shakespeare and R: Twelfth Night
other Renaissance Hamlet
Writings Shakespeare Star
Wars (eLearning)

Tuesday Discuss the plays: Quiz: Shakepspeare


02-28 Twelfth Night, Hamlet,
Shakespeare Star Wars
03-02 17th Century Theatre, eLearning: Moliere and R: Rush-characters
getting from the Greeks friends Tartuffe
to the French
Tuesday 17th Century neoclassic eLearning: Monologues- R: Rush-characters
03-07 structures, French Tartuffe, etc. R: Tartuffe
Scenes, Units/Beats O: Week of USITT
03-09 17th Century Theatre, D: Shakespeare
Comedy of Manners, Project
Farce Week of USITT
Spring Break Spring Break
Tuesday The Well Made Play eLearning readings, the R: A Dolls House
03-21 whole file Miss Julie
A: Well Made Play
Project
03-23 The Well Made Play eLearning: all 17th Cen. R: A Dolls House
readings, Realistic set Miss Julie
design
O: National Puppy
Day
Tuesday The Plays: Miss Julie, A D: Well Made Play
03-28 Dolls House Project
03-30 20th Century Theatre;
Brecht and Beyond
Tuesday 20th Century Theatre; R: Good Person of
04-04 Brecht and Beyond Szechuan
04-06 Brechtian plays, Good R: Good Person of
Person of Szechuan Szechuan
Quiz: Brecht
Structures
Tuesday Musical Theatre eLearning and other R: Into the Woods
04-11 presentations libretto
04-13 Non-linear Theatre-A New R: Fliostos: Ch. 3
Perspective A: Final Project, A
Script of Your
Choice
Tuesday Non-linear Theatre-A New O: Load in and
04-18 Perspective Dress Rehearsals
Into the Woods--
GBPAC
04-20 Non-linear Theatre-A New O: Into the Woods
Perspective 04/21, 22, 23

Tuesday New Theatre-Where Do eLearning: Theatre for


04-25 We Go From Here? Social change
04-27 New Theatre-Where Do
We Go From Here?
Wednesd End of the Year BBQ 4:00-6:30 ish SWT loading Dock
ay 05- (maybe)
03-17
Thursday 10 a.m -11:50 a.m. FINAL EXAM A: presentation
05-04-17 Final Project,
A Script of Your
Choice

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