Classic drama

City Lit

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

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    Different dates available

Read view and discuss three classic plays : Antigone by Sophocles, Richard II by Shakespeare and Hedda Gabler by Ibsen in terms of themes, language,and social and historical contexts and how they work as performance texts.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

Demonstrate a fuller appreciation of the language of the plays

Appreciate the ability of the dramatic form to deal with major aspects of the human condition.

Have a greater understanding of the political, historical and social nature of the society in which the different plays were written.

You will need to buy copies of the texts to be studied:
Antigone by Sophocles
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.

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Subjects

  • Drama

Course programme

1 Dramatic elements such as structure, language ,dialogue, characterisation and use of dramatic irony
2 What the plays reveal about social, political and historical conditions at the time of their writing.
3 How the plays work in performance and how different interpretations shed light on different aspects of the play.

A variety of teaching methods will be used including tutor lecture,, large and small group discussion ,text reading and the viewing of play extracts on film.

Additional information

See other literature courses under Humanities in the prospectus and under History, Culture and Writing on the web at General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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