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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 42556
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 206
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Genre Study
Writing to learn
This course will study theatrical works that have been reworked across time and place, and dramas that “speak” to each other intentionally. The battle of the sexes is light-hearted in William Shakespeare’s MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, but far more brutal in THE TAMING OF THE SHREW, and more modern plays repeat this comic take (Shaw's PYGMALION) or tragic one (Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE and Tennessee Williams A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE). KING LEAR became Nahum Tate’s LEAR and Kurosawa’s RAN, meditations on aging and dying that culminate in Margaret Edson's WIT. Wendy Wasserstein's THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG is directly modeled on Checkhov's THE THREE SISTERS, with a zany spin on both offered by Paula Vogel's AND BABY MAKES SEVEN. This course studies a kind of theatrical genealogy, examining family trees of dramatic influence. This course satisfies a core Literature and Writing requirement for students who started that requirement with an ENGL 201-204 class and a Genre Studies requirement for English majors and English with Creative Writing majors. This course also satisfies the WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 201, 202, 203, or 204.
4 Credits