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EL 316 | American Drama Since 1900 (Spring 2011) FJ Contact/Home - Course Wiki - Simple Site Menu American Author Links: Before ~1860 | 1860 - 1910 | 1910 - 1945 | 1945 ff Blackboard Email/Announcements Settings Fix Fix Blackboard Announcement Settings Here (Must Be Logged In To Bb) (Also: This video explains how to fix your settings.) Theater History Relevant Links Find e-Texts Project Gutenberg Open Library (by the Internet Archive) "Read Print" Online Books and Texts U VA American Hypertexts ManyBooks.net SCHEDULE Jump to: Week 1 - Week 2 - Week 3 - Week 4 - Week 5 - Week 6 - Week 7 Week 8 - Week 9 - Week 10 - Week 11 - Week 12 - Week 13 - Week 14 - Final Week 1 (Feb. 2 and 4) Friday: Remember that you need to either PRINT online texts or have some way (Kindle? iPad? Laptop?) to view your electronic copy in class. Day 1: No Class Yet Day 2: Course Introduction Day 3: “Trifles” (Susan Glaspell) (Available via Bb or elsewhere online.) Week 2 (Feb. 2, 9, and 11) Due Monday: Self intro on course wiki (link above) before class. Due Friday: Sign up for research subject (on wiki) before Friday's class. Day
1: Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller), Act 1 Day 2: Death of a Salesman, Act 2 Day 3: Read: Watt and Richardson on Am Drama from 1900-1950 (PDF @Bb) Week 3 (Feb. 14, 18, and 16) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response 1 (Glaspell, Miller, or O’Neill) Day 1: Long Day's Journey Into Night (Eugene O'Neill), Acts 1-2 Day 2: Long Day's Journey Into Night, Acts 3-4 Day 3: "The Hairy Ape" (Eugene O'Neill) Week 4 (Feb. 21, 23, and 25) Due Wednesday at 5:00: Proof of ILL Request (Inquiry Project) Day 1: Discussion/Prep for Course Assignments Day 2: "Waiting for Lefty" (Clifford Odets) Day 3: No Class (Faculty Development Day) Week 5 (Feb. 28, Mar. 2 and 4) Due Friday at 5:00: Research Update (Inquiry Project) Day 1: Night of the Iguana (Tennessee Williams), Acts 1-2 Day 2: Night of the Iguana, Act 3 Day 3: Eurydice (Sarah Ruhl) Week 6 (Mar. 2, 9, and 11) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response 2 (Any Play After Long Day’s) Day 1: "The Zoo Story" and "The Sandbox" (Edward Albee) Day 2: Funnyhouse of a Negro (Adrienne Kennedy) Day 3: A Movie Star has to Star in Black and White (Adrienne Kennedy) Week 7 (Mar. 14, 16, and 18) Exam 1 is Wednesday! (OR Friday...? Pending your approval...) Due No Later Than Friday at 5:00: Inquiry Project (Inquiry Project) Day 1: Exam Prep / Inquiry Project In-Class Work Day Day 2: Exam Prep / Inquiry Project In-Class Work Day Day 3: Midterm Exam <<SPRING BREAK>> Week 8 (Mar. 28 and 30, Apr. 1) Due Friday at 5:00: Scene Analysis (Scene Analysis) Day 1: True West (Sam Shepard) Day 2: The Tooth of Crime (Sam Shepard) Day 3: Sam Shepard, Cont. Week 9 (Apr. 4, 6, and 8) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response 3 (Shepard or Wilson) (or Ruhl?) Due Friday at 5:00: Initial Claim/Project Idea (Critical Analysis) Day 1: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (August Wilson), Act 1 Day 2: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Act 2 Day 3: August Wilson, Cont. Week 10 (Apr. 11, 13, and 15) Day 1: Glengarry Glen Ross (David Mamet), Act 1 Day 2: Glengarry Glen Ross, Act 2 Day 3: David Mamet, Cont. Week 11 (Apr. 18, 20, and 22) Due Monday in Class: Middle Paragraphs (Critical Analysis) Due Friday at Midnight: Mid Paragraph Critiques (Critical Analysis) Day 1: Twilight (Anna Deavere Smith) through "National Guard" (p. 128) Day 2: Twilight, to end Day 3: No Class Week 12 (Apr. 25, 27, and 29) Due Friday: Critical Analysis Any Revised Response Due by Friday at 5:00 Day 1: Topdog/Underdog (Suzan-Lori Parks), Scenes 1-4 Day 2: Topdog/Underdog, to end Day 3: Pickling and short essays (Suzan-Lori Parks) Week 13 (May 2, 4, and 6) Due Friday at 5:00: Critical Response 4 (Mamet, Smith, Parks, Valdez, or Hwang) Day 1: FOB (David Henry Hwang) Day 2: Zoot Suit (Luis Valdez), Act 1 Day 3: Zoot Suit , Act 2 Week 14 (May 9 + Exam) Day 1: Brilliantly well-informed class discussion of what it takes to be a super-sharp reader of plays. EXAM 2: Weds., May 11, 8:00-10:00 AM Some Author Links (In Order of Appearance in Course) Eugene O'Neill Texts Online Clifford Odets Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) A Streetcar Named Desire
More Links Sarah Ruhl (b. 1974) Eurydice (2003) Footage of Eurydice at Second Stage Theater (NYC) NYT Review (6/19/07) NYT Audio Slide Show w/Stage Designer Scott Bradley (6/19/07) "Ruhl Wrecks Eurydice with Whimsy" (NYO, 2007) NYT Review of the Yale Production (10/3/06) Paula Vogel Reflects on Eurydice (NPR, 12/7/04) H.D.'s "Eurydice" Poem, Annotated a Bit More Links Sarah Ruhl "Topic' Page at NYT Profile at the New Yorker (2008) "A Promising Playwright's Summer Authors" (NPR, 2007) Paul Vogel Interviews Sarah Ruhl (Bomb, 2007) Audio Slide Show: Ruhl Discusses Her Plays (NYT, 2006) "Playwright Sarah Ruhl Entertains with Big Ideas" (NPR 10/21/05) Info at NewDramatists.org (PDF) Edward Albee (b. 1928) More Links "Which Theatre is the Absurd One" "Which Theatre is the Absurd One" (Original at NYT, but Incomplete) Adrienne Kennedy (b. 1931) More Links AdrienneKennedy.com Suzan-Lori Parks Interviews Adrienne Kennedy (Bomb, 1996) Signature Theater's Kennedy Performances (NYT Review, 1995) Sam Shepard (b. 1943) The Tooth of Crime (Premiere: 1972) True West (Premiere: 1980) More Links "Getting Faster With Age: Sam Shepard’s New Velocity" (NYT, 2010) Jason Alexander Riffs on Sam Sheppard (2006) Salon.com Profile (Kevin Berger, 2001) Sam Shepard on His Family Plays (from PBS Great Performances) Gary Grant's Shepard Site Shepard Fan Site NYT Topic Page for Shepard August Wilson (1945-2005) David Mamet "The Art of Theater, #11" (Paris Review) Links for Future Consideration Elevator Repair Service (e.g., Gatz) | ||