AJ18012 Anglo-Canadian Theatre

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/20. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Martin Pšenička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Prerequisites
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination || AJ01002 Practical English II
Students are required to read all the materials posted online.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Syllabus
  • Týden Název Souhrn 1 Marc Lescarbot (překlad Mikuláš Bryan): Neptunovo divadlo v Nové Francii (francouzsky/česky) Middleton: Theatre in Canada Marc Lescarbot: The Theatre of Neptune in New France (English) 2 Sarah Anne Curzon: Laura Secord Pouze drama!!! H.M.S Parliament Filewod: Between Empires Filewod: Between Empires (1. strana) 3 Herman Voaden: Symphony Marsh Hay Marsh Hay (první strana/first page] 4 Eight Men Speak Gwen Pharis Ringwood: Still Stands the House Still Stands the House: poslední strana 5 Gratien Gelinas: Tit Coq Michel Tremblay: Hosanna 6 Fortune and Men's Eyes Fortune and Men's Eyes 2 Utrpení Rity Joe Utrpení Rity Joe_chybějící stránky78_79 7 Sharon Pollock: Walsh James Reaney: The Donnellys, Part I - Sticks and Stones James Reaney: The Donnellys, Part I - Sticks and Stones (chybějící strany/missing pages) Theatre Passe Muraille: The Farm Show 8 Tomson Higway: Sestry z rezervace (překlad Klára Kolinská) 9 Judith Thompson: Sled Djanet Sears: Harlem Duet Djanet Sears: Harlem Duet (chybějící strana 30 a 31/missing page 30 and 31) 10 Kent Stetson: Warm Wind in China Guiilermo Verdecchia: Fronteras Americanas/American Borders 11 Drew Hayden Taylor: Ve světě opilého Stvořitele
Literature
  • The Oxford Companion to Canadian Theatre. Ed. Eugene Benson a L.W. Conolly. Toronto, Oxford a New York, 1989
  • Kolinská, Klára ed.. Čekání na Kojota: současné drama kanadských Indiánů. Brno: Větrné mlýny, 2007
  • Wallace, Robert. Producing Marginality: Theatre and Criticism in Canada. Saskatoon Fith House, 1990
  • Day, Moira ed. West of All Possible Worlds. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2004
  • Wasserman, Jerry ed.. Modern Canadian Plays. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1985
  • Knowles, Ric. The Theatre of Form and the Production of Meaning. Toronto: ECW Press, 1999
  • Canada’s Lost Plays vol. 4: Colonial Quebec. French-Canadian Drama, 1606-1966. Toronto: CTR Publications, 1982
  • Rubin, Don ed. Canadian Theatre History: Selected Readings. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2004
  • Walker, Craig S. Buried Astrolabe: Canadian Dramatic Imagination and Western Tradition. Montreal a Kingston: McGill’s-Queen’s UP, 2001
  • Zimmerman, Cynthia. Playwriting Women: Female Voices in English Canada. Toronto: Simon and Pierre, 1994
  • Drama. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature. Ed. Eva-Marie Kroeller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004, s. 115-134
  • Theatre and Transformation in Contemporary Canada. Toronto: Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 1999
  • Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian Theatre Criticism. Ed. Anton Wagner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999
  • Benson, Eugene a L.W. Conolly. English-Canadian Theatre: Perspectives on Canadian Culture. Toronto, 1987
  • Wagner, Anton a Richard Plant ed. Canada’s Lost Plays vol. 1: Nineteenth Century. Toronto: CTR Publications, 1978
  • Wagner, Anton ed. Contemporary Canadian Theatre: New World Visions. Toronto: Simon and Pierre, 1985
Assessment methods
Class participation: 40%, Essay: 60% (approx. 9,000 characters, MLA style)
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught only once.
The course is taught: in blocks.
Note related to how often the course is taught: 20.-24. září 2010.
Teacher's information
http://moodle.ff.cuni.cz/course/category.php?id=23&perpage=20&page=1&MoodleSession=ecdb377cb780997878596e82a6999a62
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2010/AJ18012