AJ14060 Restoration and 18th Century Drama

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2008
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Pavel Drábek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Klára Bicanová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Thu 18:20–19:55 G22
Prerequisites
AJ09999 Qualifying Examination
AJ04001 and AJ04003 Introduction to Literature I and II (for English Deptartment students)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
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Course objectives
The course is designed focuses on key dramatic and literary works of 1660-1785, ranging from the early Restoration attempts at "modern", fashionable drama, through mature Restoration comedy, comedy of manners, political and popular drama of the 1720s and 1730s, to sentimal drama, influence by the English novel. Authors to be discussed in detail: John Dryden, William Wycherley, Sir John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, John Gay, Henry Fielding, Oliver Goldsmith and R. B. Sheridan. Attention will be paid to the development of criticism, and the influences of poetry, fiction, and French and Elizabethan drama.
Syllabus
  • Preliminary syllabus and reading: Dryden, Marriage a la Mode (1671) Dryden, Of Dramatic Poesy (1668), and a selection of poetry Francis Beaumont, The Knight of the Burning Pestle (c1608) Buckingham, The Rehearsal (1671) Dryden, The Conquest of Granada (1671) Pepys, Diary Wycherley, The Country Wife (1675) Behn, The Rover (1677) Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra (1607) and Dryden, All for Love (1677) William Shakespeare and Nahum Tate: King Lear in 1605, and in 1681. Otway, Venice Preserved (1682) Vanbrugh, The Relapse (1696) Congreve, The Way of the World (1700) Centlivre (and Pix), The Busybody (1709) Addison and Steele, essays Gay, The Beggar's Opera (1728) Gay, Polly (1729) Fielding, The Tragedy of Tragedies, or Tom Thumb the Great (1730) Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer (1773) Sheridan, The Rivals (1775) Sheridan, A School for Scandal (1777)
Assessment methods (in Czech)
The course consists of seminars based on home reading. Individual assignments (seminar work) are required. The exam consists of a critical essay.
Language of instruction
Czech
Teacher's information
http://elf.phil.muni.cz/elf/course/view.php?id=97
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2006, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021.
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