| Center |
| Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication |
| Departament |
| English and German |
| Lecturers in charge |
| Sin datos cargados |
| Met. Docent |
| The class is a theory class structure given by the lecturer in the form of discussions. |
| Met. Avaluació |
| Project work - - |
| Bibliografia |
| TEXTOS DE LECTURA: ù John Osborne, Look Back in Anger. ù Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot. ù Arnold Wesker, The Kitchen. ù Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter. ù Edward Bond, Saved. ù Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead y The Real Thing. ù Nigel Williams, Class Enemy. ù Sarah Kane, Phaedra's Love. Además de estos textos, de lectura obligatoria, se recomienda al alumno que acceda a la lectura de otros textos fundamentales de estos mismos autores, y de algunos otros igualmente representativos, que serán recomendados en clase por el profesor. |
| Continguts |
| DESCRIPTION AND CONTENTS OF THE COURSE: PROGRAM OF THE SUBJECT PRESENTATION AND CONTEXTUALISATION OF THE PROGRAM. TOPIC I: THEATER IN THE XIX CENTURY: OSCAR WILDE AND GEORGE BERNARD SHAW. ûOscar Wilde: biography and polemic. The Importance of Being Earnest. Farce and social satire in Lady Windermere's Fan. ûG. B. Shaw and the thesis of theatre. The influence of Ibsen, Chejov and Strindberg. The theater as a dramatic novel: demarcation and prejudice in Bernard Shaw. The interest of its forewords. Plays Pleasant and Plays Unpleasant. Mrs. Warren's Profession, as social theater. TOPIC II: DRAMATIC LITERATURE AND THEATER IN THE XX CENTURY. ûInnovation and conservatism in literature and contemporary British theater. The classic repertoire and contemporary texts. More important dramatic and theatrical lines of the XX century. TOPIC III: THE PLACE OF REPRESENTATION: From the ½West End” to the ½Fringe”. public Theater and private theater. Classic companies (National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company) faced with alternative companies (Royal Court, Bush and Almeida). Their role in the creation of new dramatic art. . Other dramatic media: radio television. TOPIC IV: THE THEATER IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE XX CENTURY. ûThe theater of the absurdityö. Becket and Waiting for Godot. social theater: ½Angry Young Men”: John Osborne and Arnold Wesker. The ½Second Wave” and the theater of violence. From Saved, by Edward Bond |