FF:DVHs077 Comedy of Manners - Course Information
DVHs077 Comedy of Manners in English Dramatic Tradition
Faculty of ArtsAutumn 2003
- Extent and Intensity
- 1/1/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 1 credit for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Zdeňka Brandejská (lecturer)
- Guaranteed by
- Dr. Július Gajdoš, Ph.D.
Department of Theatre Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: doc. Mgr. Martin Pšenička, Ph.D. - Timetable
- Thu 10:00–11:35 13
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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- Course objectives
- The course will look at the genre of comedy of manners in the English dramatic tradition. It will provide an overview of its development from the Restoration to the twentieth century. We will read a number of plays in detail, focusing on such issues as style, speech, satire and social critique, genre specifications, gender stereotypes, metatheatre and many others. We will also consider a possible legacy of the genre in contemporary drama, theatre, film and popular culture.
- Syllabus
- The course will focus on the works by the following authors: John Dryden, George Etherege, William Wycherley, George Farquhar, William Congreve, Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Oscar Wilde, Noel Coward, John Osborne, Joe Orton, Harold Pinter ...
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (recent)
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