AJ24086 Reading and Understanding Drama

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 3 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)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Timetable
Thu 10:00–11:35 G31
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields 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
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 13 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
The objective of the course is working on the analytical abilities and on improving the skills in reading dramatic texts critically.
Syllabus
  • classical tragedy
  • Plautine comedy
  • Elizabethan comedy and tragedy
  • tragicomedy
  • restauration a classicist comedy
  • romantic tragedy
  • realistic drama
  • poetic drama
  • drama of the absurd
  • dramatic character
  • dramatic genre
  • dramatic situation
  • theme
Literature
  • SOFOKLÉS. Oedipus rex. Edited by R. D. Dawe. Repr. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2002, 260 s. ISBN 0521287774. info
  • Restoration drama : an anthology. Edited by David Womersley. 1st published. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2000, viii, 826. ISBN 0631209034. info
  • PLAUTUS. Four comedies. Edited by Erich Segal - Plautus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, xlvi, 242. ISBN 0192838962. info
  • BECKETT, Samuel. Waiting for Godot : a tragicomedy in two acts. London: Faber and Faber, 1975, 94 s. ISBN 0571062490. info
  • English drama : 1580-1642. Edited by Nathaniel Burton Paradise - Tucker Brooke. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1933, viii, 1044. info
Assessment methods
final essay (of 1,500 to 2,000 words)
Language of instruction
English
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2010.
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