AJ24091 Frivolous Drama of Early Modern Europe

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Mon 15:50–17:25 G32
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 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The objectives of this seminar are analyses of dramatic texts of the early modern period (mostly of English provenance) engendering what is referred to as the frivolous mode.
Discussions of the texts develop awareness of generic complexities of early modern drama as well as analytic capacities of the students in relation to plot, dramatic situation, dramatic character and implicit audience response.
Syllabus
  • What is Frivolité
  • Frivolous Shakespeare
  • Restoration and Its Taste
  • Frivolous Fletcher
  • Frivolous Middleton
  • The Travelling Actors' Clowns
  • Simulacra of Christ
Literature
    recommended literature
  • The Making of the national poet : Shakespeare, adaptation and authorship, 1660-1769. Edited by Michael Dobson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995, viii, 266. ISBN 0198183232. info
  • OSOLSOBĚ, Ivo. Divadlo, které mluví, zpívá a tančí : (teorie jedné komunikační formy). Praha: Editio Supraphon, 1974, 242 s. URL info
  • SORELIUS, Gunnar. The giant race before the flood : Pre-Restoration drama on the stage and in the criticism of the Restoration. Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1966, 227 p. info
  • COHN, Albert. Shakespeare in Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : an account of English actors in Germany and the Netherlands and of the plays performed by them during the same period. London: Asher & Co., 1865, iii, cxxxv. ISBN 0548743622. info
Teaching methods
seminar discussions over appointed texts
Assessment methods
Final essay (of 1500-2500 words) on a topic related to the frivolous mode.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
Teacher's information
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