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Cultural history course surveys visual, literary, and performative traditions of Western theater. Theater conventions, architecture, and texts are presented alongside the art, architecture, dress, literature, politics, and social structure of a historic period. Instruction focuses on visual and literary interpretation of texts and an examination of the audience/performance relationship. Class examines theater of the 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on debate between Neoclassicism and Romanticism and studying background and thought behind Realism and Naturalism. Course offered spring semester only.
Course descriptions are stored in OASIS and are maintained by the Associate Dean for each School.
