ENGL 345 Drama

Summer 2002 - MTWRF 9:50-11:50 a.m.

Schedule of Classes | Bulletin Board

Professor Westman

108 Denison Hall; 532-2171

Office Hours: T, W, R 8:30-9:30 a.m. and by app't

westmank@ksu.edu

When 1xbet sports betting watch movies 1xbet sports betting are so wrapped in the dark that 1xbet sports betting can be persuaded to believe almost any nonsense. It's part of the fun of movies.... Live theatre is something very different. There is all that light coming from the stage. 1xbet sports betting are never unaware of surrounding members of the audience, or of the fact that 1xbet sports betting are observing actors impersonate other people. The result is that 1xbet sports betting develop bifocal vision, which allows 1xbet sports betting to appreciate both the fiction taking place on the stage and the skills of the people making it possible.

A performance is a spooky, ephemeral thing. Without 1xbet sports betting , it doesn't exist. When it's over, it's gone. It's never to be repeated in quite the same way again, unlike movies and live-on-tape television that, being frozen in time, are essentially inert.

-- Vincent Canby, New York Times theater critic

Required Texts

Drama: A Pocket Anthology, edited by R.S. Gwynn (Longman)

Sophocles, Antigone, Trans. Richard Braun (Oxford)

Wilder, Three Plays (Harper Perennial)

Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (Signet)

Fugard, Master Harold . . and the Boys (Penguin)

1xbet sports betting Pack #1 and 1xbet sports betting Pack #2 (Available at A&S Copy Center in Eisenhower Hall on 6/10/02)

1xbet sports betting Description

This course 1xbet sports betting explore how authors' dramatic forms and techniques allow their audiences to re-experience the world around them. As we read, discuss, write about, and consider the performance of their plays, we 1xbet sports betting investigate how each play accomplishes its task through the cultural language of dialogue, props, costumes, theatrical tradition, and the relationship between actors and audience.

1xbet sports betting Objectives

To become familiar with drama as a literary genre and its historical and formal conventions

To develop and apply critical skills for reading, thinking, and writing 1xbet sports betting drama

To acquire new 1xbet sports betting and to develop existing 1xbet sports betting related to research in English literature and various technologies

Readings and 1xbet sports betting Participation: Any summer literature course is a reading-intensive experience, so plan accordingly! 1xbet sports betting are expected to complete each reading assignment before coming to class. 1xbet sports betting are further expected to think carefully about what 1xbet sports betting read and to make notes in the text prior to each class meeting. For each class, bring the appropriate book or xeroxes and additionally mark passages that we discuss; this process will help 1xbet sports betting understand, remember, and review.

This class will be based on discussion, so class participation is expected and will count for 20% of your final grade. "Class participation" is not the same as just showing up and taking notes: 1xbet sports betting must be an active presence in the class. This grade, then, includes your contributions to our discussions in class (in large and small groups) and to our discussions on the Electronic Bulletin Board. I 1xbet sports betting expect at least two postings a week from each student on the Electronic Bulletin Board; the guidelines and instructions for using the Bulletin Board appear on a separate handout.

Attendance: Obviously, 1xbet sports betting can't participate effectively if 1xbet sports betting aren't in class. Since the University requires that students attend all classes in which they are enrolled, there are no excused absences. If 1xbet sports betting are absent for more than nine classroom hours - that is, five (5) class periods during our summer session - 1xbet sports betting will fail this class automatically. If 1xbet sports betting are absent for more than two, 1xbet sports betting jeopardize your final grade for the course: each absence over those two will lower your final course grade by one grade increment (i.e.: A to B). Two tardies will count as one absence. If 1xbet sports betting wish to receive a passing grade in this class, then, attendance is very important. Classroom work or homework assignments missed due to absence cannot be made up. If 1xbet sports betting are absent, it is 1xbet sports betting responsibility to find out from another 1xbet sports betting member any announcements or assignments.

Quizzes/1xbet sports betting Papers: In most cases, 1xbet sports betting will have a quiz or a response paper due each day we begin our discussion of a play. Quizzes and response papers are designed to test your knowledge of the reading assignments and the analytical skills we develop and practice during our discussions. The quizzes will consist of identifications and interpretive questions which will help 1xbet sports betting improve your close reading skills and to evaluate your comprehension of the material; the response papers will be in response to a particular interpretative question. Quizzes and response papers will be graded on a scale of 1 to 5 points: 5=A, 4=B, 3=C, 2=D, 1=F. I will average the points at the end of the course after dropping the lowest grade. Extra credit opportunities will go towards your quiz/response grade. Should 1xbet sports betting be absent on the day of a quiz or response paper, 1xbet sports betting will receive a zero, unless the absence is excused.

Papers: 1xbet sports betting will write only one paper (4-5 pages) in this class, given our short time together and the other projects 1xbet sports betting 'll be working on. If your paper is late, it will be penalized a full letter grade (i.e.: A to B) for each day it is late. Papers must be typed, double-spaced, with one inch margins (one page = 250 words); the pages should be spell-checked, proof-read, numbered, and stapled or paper-clipped together. Your name, my name, the date, and the type of assignment should appear in the upper-left hand corner of the first page.

A note on sources: a "Works Cited" page should accompany any assignment that refers to outside sources, and 1xbet sports betting should use the MLA method for documenting sources. When 1xbet sports betting turn in a paper, 1xbet sports betting pledge that the work is your own and that 1xbet sports betting have faithfully abided by the guidelines for documenting sources. The University's Honor Code obliges 1xbet sports betting to cite the source of any idea that is not your own. If 1xbet sports betting quote, paraphrase, or use another's ideas, 1xbet sports betting must give credit to the person whose ideas 1xbet sports betting are using. Otherwise, 1xbet sports betting have plagiarized. If 1xbet sports betting have any questions, please ask. If 1xbet sports betting do plagiarize, 1xbet sports betting will fail this course.

Performance Review: 1xbet sports betting will write one performance review. The review will discuss the video-taped performance of one of the plays on our syllabus. Further information will follow shortly.

Performance Troupes: By the end of the first week, I will divide the class into performance troupes. Troupes work together to perform a scene (or scenes) from a play on the syllabus (about 10 minutes of performance). 1xbet sports betting will meet outside of class with your troupe and, if needed, with me to prepare for your roles as directors, costumers, and actors. The troupe's in-class performance of the scene(s) as well as a written production review (a Director's Checklist and a Character Analysis) will count 15% towards your final grade for the course; please see the details following the schedule of classes.

Computing: Our section of ENGL 345 will emphasize technology as we discuss our plays. Not only is technology now a component of the state licensure requirements, including the standards for English Language Arts, but it plays an important part of your academic and professional careers. Consequently, we will be meeting in EH228, a computer lab classroom, and we will use the computers on some days. 1xbet sports betting will be asked to participate in some different kinds of technology: an Electronic Bulletin Board and Daedalus Integrated Writing Environment, and electronic resources for research. Our work with computers is designed not only as another forum for discussing our reading, but as a way for 1xbet sports betting to sharpen your communication skills, media skills, and web skills for an increasingly technological age.

Email: I highly recommend email as a way of touching base with me about your work for the class - a kind of virtual office hours. 1xbet sports betting can send me queries about reading or writing assignments, your thesis statement for an essay, or anything else that could be handled with a quick exchange of messages. I check my email in the morning before class, in the afternoon, and in the evening before 10pm.

Electronic Bulletin Board: Beginning the first week of class, I'll establish an electronic bulletin board for our class. Each week, each student is required to post at least one paragraph-length comment about the materials we're studying in class. I will monitor these discussions and assess a grade (at the end of the semester) based on the thoughtfulness of your comments, their ability to foster discussion among your classmates, and their responsiveness both to our readings and to your classmates' comments in class and on the list. Your postings do not need to be long; however, they need to be substantive: they must be long enough to convey clearly the problem 1xbet sports betting are taking up and your point of view, connecting your comment to others' comments, as appropriate. I will offer models of helpful comments early in the semester. Your grade for these postings will become part of your class participation grade.

Examination: 1xbet sports betting will have a cumulative final exam. A missed exam counts as a zero; no make-up exams will be offered without a dean's excuse.

Conferences: I want 1xbet sports betting to succeed in this course, and I am happy to meet with 1xbet sports betting about your work and your progress. I encourage 1xbet sports betting to see me before writing assignments are due, or if 1xbet sports betting have questions about material we discuss in class. Please feel free to stop by during office hours (T, W, R 8:30-9:30 am), or contact me by phone or email to arrange a more convenient time to meet.

Note: If 1xbet sports betting have any condition such as a physical or learning disability that will make it difficult for 1xbet sports betting to carry out the work as I have outlined it or which will require academic accommodations, please notify me in the first two days of the course.

Grading:

Quizzes/Responses 20%

1xbet sports betting Participation 20%

In-1xbet sports betting 10%

Postings 10%

Paper 15%

Performance Review 10%

Performance Troupe 15%

1xbet sports betting 20%

Schedule of Classes (Subject to change.)

Note: The full text of the 1xbet sports betting should be read for the first day of 1xbet sports betting .

[CP1], [CP2] = 1xbet sports betting Packs.

June	M 10	Introduction: Staging a 1xbet sports betting
	T 11	Gwynn, from &1xbet sports betting ;Introduction&1xbet sports betting ; (1-20) Sophocles, Antigone (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #1) Selected Online 1xbet sports betting for Antigone: &1xbet sports betting ;Study Guide 1xbet sports betting ,&1xbet sports betting ; &1xbet sports betting ;Selected 1xbet sports betting on Sophocles,&1xbet sports betting ; &1xbet sports betting ;Antigone's Age: How old was Antigone? ,&1xbet sports betting ; &1xbet sports betting ;Ismene - notes for a director or actress,&1xbet sports betting ; and &1xbet sports betting ;Creon: The Importance of Being Persuaded.&1xbet sports betting ;
	W 12	Antigone Gwynn, &1xbet sports betting ; Medieval Drama,&1xbet sports betting ; &1xbet sports betting ;Elizabethan Drama,&1xbet sports betting ; and &1xbet sports betting ;The Comic Genres&1xbet sports betting ; (20-24)
	R 14	No 1xbet sports betting : Read Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream [CP1] Selected Online 1xbet sports betting for A Midsummer Night's Dream: &1xbet sports betting ;A Teacher's Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream&1xbet sports betting ; by Hazel K. Davis, Federal Hocking High School, Stewart, OH (includes plot summary by act and scene, study questions, teaching suggestions); &1xbet sports betting ;Shakespeare Web Sites&1xbet sports betting ; by Professor Mark Aune offers links to several categories of web sites; &1xbet sports betting ;Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet&1xbet sports betting ; (an award-winning site of resources); the Folger Shakespeare Library has an archive of lesson plans for teachers.
	F 15	No 1xbet sports betting : Prepare posting for Bulletin Board on Midsummer
	M 17	Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
	T 18	Midsummer; Historical Context for Midsummer [CP2] (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #2) Performance Troupe #1
	W 19	Gwynn, &1xbet sports betting ;Realistic Drama, the Modern Stage, and Beyond&1xbet sports betting ; (24-25) Ibsen's A Doll House (Gwynn 209-277) (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #3) Selected online 1xbet sports betting for A Doll House: &1xbet sports betting ;Ibsen A Doll House Links&1xbet sports betting ;
	R 20	A Doll House Glaspell, Trifles (Gwynn 278-292) (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #4) Selected online 1xbet sports betting for Trifles: A well-chosen series of links assembled at Web English Teacher on &1xbet sports betting ;Susan Glaspell, Trifles.&1xbet sports betting ;
	F 21	Wilder, &1xbet sports betting ;Preface&1xbet sports betting ; and The Skin of Our Teeth (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #5) Selected online 1xbet sports betting for The Skin of Our Teeth: A page about a recent production of the 1xbet sports betting at the University of Colorado-Boulder, with links to 1xbet sports betting about Wilder, the 1xbet sports betting , and critical terms like &1xbet sports betting ;metatheater&1xbet sports betting ; and &1xbet sports betting ;allegory&1xbet sports betting ;; notes from another production, this one in Germany by the Bamburg University English Drama Group, which offers some critical interpretation of the 1xbet sports betting (link courtesy of the Internet Archive); a 1xbet sports betting with links to three production photos and two production designs from a performance at University of Pennsylvania; a 1xbet sports betting with a link to the poster designed for a production at MIT in 1995; a page 1xbet sports betting Thorton Wilder from the Library of Congress's American Memory website provides a photo (taken by Carl Van Vechten) of Wilder as Mr. Antrobus; a performance review of a production in the Berkshires, with links to other performace reviews; and a biography of Thorton Wilder.
	M 24	Skin of Our Teeth; Performance Troupe #2
	T 25	David Ives, Sure Thing (Gwynn 521-532) Selected online 1xbet sports betting for Sure Thing: a series of study 1xbet sports betting from Longman; a brief biography of Ives from Bedford/St. Martin's. Paper due by 4pm to my mailbox in DE 122 (4-5 pages)
	W 26	Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #6) Selected online 1xbet sports betting for A Streetcar Named Desire: a range of 1xbet sports betting are available from the page created by the Hippodrome State Theater (Gainesville, FL), &1xbet sports betting ;Tennesse Williams, The Playwright,&1xbet sports betting ; including a biography and links to letters exchanged between Williams and the actress Jessica Tandy (who played Blanche in the NY premiere), 1xbet sports betting topics, and information 1xbet sports betting the poetic references in the 1xbet sports betting ; a web page on Williams' 1xbet sports betting , assembled by two instructors, includes a definition of expressionism, detailed study 1xbet sports betting , an image of the Van Gogh painting Williams refers to in his stage directions, and a link to the transcript of a PBS discussion of the 1xbet sports betting , among other links; the New York Times theater review (4 Dec 1947) of the play's opening performance (notable for what is left unsaid 1xbet sports betting Williams' themes).
	R 27	Streetcar
	F 28	Wilson, Fences (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #7) Selected online 1xbet sports betting for Fences: Professor Bill Dynes' &1xbet sports betting ;Fences&1xbet sports betting ; page has discussion questions and links to information about the Negro League; the web page for the Curious Theater Company's production of Fences in 2001 (Denver,CO) provides their publicity poster and links to production stills and discussion questions and great 1xbet sports betting ; Dr. Sharon Sellers provides a series of discussion 1xbet sports betting by character and themes; a biography compiled by Dartmouth College in honor of Wilson's visit there in 1998; another biography, as a time-line of Wilson's life, as well as some critical interpretations of his plays.
July	M 1	Fences
	T 2	Fugard, &1xbet sports betting ;Master Harold&1xbet sports betting ;...and the Boys (Quiz/1xbet sports betting #8) Selected online 1xbet sports betting for &1xbet sports betting ;Master Harold&1xbet sports betting ;...and the Boys: Professor Paul Brians' excellent Study Guide for Fugard's 1xbet sports betting ; a web site on Athol Fugard, with links to information 1xbet sports betting his life and his plays; a brief biography.
	W 3	Performance Review Due (Guidance for citing online 1xbet sports betting .) Review for 1xbet sports betting Optional Session for taking 1xbet sports betting (1-3pm)
	R 4	No 1xbet sports betting - Independence Day
	F 5	1xbet sports betting : Short Answer and Essay