Theatre Historiography: Making the Connections (DRAM3103)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2024
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
School
Communication & Arts School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Seminar 2 Hours/ Week
Prerequisite
Students should be in their final year of study and have completed DRAM1010 + DRAM2030
Assessment methods
Tutorial exercises
Presentation
Research Essay
Course enquiries
Doctor Emma Cole (Semester 2, St Lucia, In person)
Current course offerings
| Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
| Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
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Course description
Compulsory Third Year Course (Capstone). This course examines theatre's engagement with themes of violence and conflict, and theatre's subsequent potential to affect its audiences viscerally. Moving backwards and forwards across theatre history, we trace our way though some of the most intriguing plays in the canon, touching on Greek theatre, Renaissance theatre, the nineteenth-century gothic, sensational melodramas, and contemporary iterations of murder, mayhem, and madness on stage, making the connections between certain tropes and approaches that have reoccurred or changed over time. Students will read accompanying critical theory and will have the opportunity to develop their own individual research projects. This course aims to deepen students' understanding of theatre history and historiography, while consolidating their research skills.
