SEM 3 | R 12:30 - 15:15 | Penelope Farfan | Outline | |||
Notes: Gender, Sexuality, Modernism, and Performance. The emergence of modernism in theatre, drama, and performance both reflected and contributed to the transformation of gender roles and the emergence of modern sexual identities in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This seminar will look at the intersection of gender, sexuality, modernism, and performance. Plays and performances to be considered may include works by Henrik Ibsen, Arthur Wing Pinero, Oscar Wilde, Loie Fuller, George Bernard Shaw, Christopher St. John and Cicely Hamilton, Isadora Duncan, Vaslav Nijinsky, Djuna Barnes, Josephine Baker, Noel Coward, and Mordaunt Shairp, among others. Course readings will also include related primary materials (performance reviews, newspaper articles, autobiographical writings, etc.) and relevant critical and historical texts. |