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ACL346

FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAMA

Course Code
ACL346
Semester
Sixth Term (Spring)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
4
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study3
SemesterSixth Term (Spring)
ECTS4
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Discuss the fundamental aspects of tragedy and comedy within a historical context.
  2. Analyze the classical dramatic forms and how these forms are transmuted in modern drama.
  3. Interpret the dramatic texts with reference to dramatic types and techniques developed in the modern period.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course DescriptionThis course provides a historical survey of European drama starting from the Classical period and concluding with the end of the 19th century. The aim of the course is to make students critically engage with major trends, movements and forms observed in European drama by studying representative texts of Antiquity, Renaissance and Restoration periods.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Origins of Drama, Development of Classical Tragedy
2nd Week Aristotle, from Poetics, Sophocles, Oedipus the King (429 B.C.), Medieval Drama: Introduction, Anonymous, Everyman
3rd Week Renaissance Drama: Development of a Shakespearean Tragedy, Hamlet
4th Week Renaissance Drama: Development of a Shakespearean Tragedy, Hamlet, Movie Review
5th Week Elements of Classical Comedy, Aristophanes, Lysistrata
6th Week Renaissance Drama: Development of a Shakespearean Comedy, The Twelfth Night
7th Week The Great Age of French Drama: Moliere, Tartuffe (1669)
8th Week Midterm
9th Week Development of Modern European Drama
10th Week Development of Realism, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879)
11th Week Development of Realism, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (1879)
12th Week Anti-Realism and Epic Drama of Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
13th Week Anti-Realism and Epic Drama of Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children (1939)
14th Week Absurd Drama: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952)
15th Week Absurd Drama: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (1952)
16th Week Revision-Drama Review Submission
Recommended or Required ReadingAristophanes. Lysistrata and Other Plays. Penguin, 2003.
Beckett, Samuel, et al. Waiting for Godot. Grove P, 2011.
Brecht, Bertolt. Mother Courage and Her Children. London, 1990.
Ibsen, Henrik. Doll's House. Methuen, 1994.
Jacobus, Lee A. The Bedford Introduction to Drama. Bedford, 2017.
Pirandello, Luigi. Three Plays: the Rules of the Game. Six Characters in Search of an Author. Henry IV. Methuen, 1996.
Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. Simon and Schuster, 2004.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet. Penguin Books, 2015.
Sophocles. Oedipus the King. Passerino Editore, 2017.
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Faber and Faber, 2000.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Questions/Answers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 30
Assignment 1 15
Practice 1 15
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for Quiz 2 3 6
Individual or group work 14 4 56
Preparation for Final exam 1 6 6
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 4 4
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 2 2
Homework 1 4 4
Quiz 2 1 2
Total Work Load124
Total Work Load / 30 (h)4.13
ECTS Credit of the Course4
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

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