SEM 3 | T 13:00 - 15:45 | Penelope Farfan | Outline | |||
Notes: Gender and sexuality were central concerns in theatre, drama, and performance in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This course will centre on the intersection of gender, sexuality, modernism, and performance as a way to understand key plays and performances across a range of genres, styles, and forms during this period. Through this approach, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the field of modern drama and performance, along with insight into how modernism in theatre, drama, and performance reflected, challenged, and transformed prevailing understandings of gender and sexuality. Plays and performances to be considered may include works by Henrik Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Loie Fuller, Arthur Wing Pinero, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Isadora Duncan, Christopher St. John and Cicely Hamilton, Vaslav Nijinsky, Angelina Weld Grimké, Djuna Barnes, Langston Hughes, Noël Coward, Mordaunt Shairp, Lillian Hellman, Bertolt Brecht, and Tennessee Williams, among others. Course readings may also include related primary materials (e.g., performance reviews, newspaper articles, manifestos) and relevant critical, theoretical, and historical texts. |