http://www.oercommons.org/browse/keyword/plays daily 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.oercommons.org/courses/invitation-to-world-literature Great epics, plays, poetry, and other literary texts have made their way around the world through time and translation, and are still captivating audiences today. This multimedia resource invites viewers to appreciate and - most importantly - read these ancient and modern works. The 13 texts are introduced on video by a wide-ranging cast including scholars, translators, artists, and writers. Excerpts of the texts are found on an extensive Web site along with background material and reading support; an interactive timeline and a feature on translation; and resources for teaching and further study. David Damrosch Humanities 2012-09-05T11:23:58 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/fractured-families-in-american-drama Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and Long Day's Journey into Night, explore the tension, tragedy, heartbreak, and love within flawed and fractured families. Jayne Karsten Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:44 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/southern-puritanism-and-tennessee-williams This lesson continues the exploration of "Puritanism" as an influence on the development of modern American drama in works by Tennessee Williams. Jayne Karsten Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:44 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/arthur-miller-and-the-crucible This lesson examines the consequences of personal conscience in conflict with rigid societal perceptions of what is "right" in human behavior as articulated in Arthur Miller's "The Crucible". Jayne Karsten Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Arts Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:41 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/eugene-o-neill-on-page-and-stage Continue the exploration of "Puritanism" as an influence on the development of modern American drama by focusing on elements of narrative, theme and characterization. Jayne Karsten Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Arts Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:41 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/exploring-a-streetcar-named-desire Students study setting, plot, and character development in Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire" and discuss its impact on American theater. Jayne Karsten Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Arts Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:38 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/it-s-all-in-the-translation In this lesson students will examine the important role translation plays in interpreting the dramatic literature and theater of the ancient Greeks. Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Jim Carpenter Arts Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:37 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/the-memory-play-in-american-drama This lesson explores structural and technical devices of the "memory" play by focusing on a Tennessee Williams' masterpiece, "The Glass Menagerie". Amy Heathcott Jayne Karsten Arts Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:37 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/uncivil-civilization-in-the-hairy-ape Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" presents a disheartening assessment of the impact of living in the industrialized society of the early 20th century. Jayne Karsten Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Arts Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:37 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/broken-worlds This lesson provides a variety of options for conducting comparative analysis between Eugene O'Neill's "The Hairy Ape" and Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". Jayne Karsten Jen Westmoreland Bouchard Arts Humanities 2012-07-23T12:13:34 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/a-storybook-romance-dante-s-paolo-and-francesca This lesson plan highlights one episode in the Divine Comedy to provide students with an introduction to Dante's great poem. After a brief introduction to the opening of the Divine Comedy, which portrays Dante as a pilgrim guided by the poet Virgil on a journey through the Christian afterlife toward God, students read Canto 5 of the Inferno, which comes near the beginning of Dante's descent into Hell. Students refer to a diagram of Dante's underworld to understand the role of Minos at the start of this canto, then analyze Dante's description of the storm-tossed souls he encounters in order to gain further insight into his allegorical method. Next, students identify the famous lovers who set the stage for Paolo and Francesca, and consider how they lend a literary dimension to our perception of this pair. Finally, students examine Francesca's "confession," comparing the philosophical style in which she first describes her love affair with the story-telling style she uses to describe what actually occurred. Individual Authors Arts Humanities 2011-12-06T13:13:41 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/restoration-eighteenth-century-drama This course will introduce the student to the range of drama written and performed in England and Continental Europe between roughly 1660 and 1800. The student will explore the major plays, players, and playhouses from this era in conjunction with a thorough and in-depth historical contextualization. The course will focus on Restoration and eighteenth-century drama from various nationalistic perspectives, investigating the various genres that were prevalent during that time period. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: provide an introduction to and brief overview of both the Restoration and the eighteenth-century in terms of their history, politics, and culture and especially their drama; identify and describe the major movements and developments in the theatre of this era (including, for example, heroic drama, pathetic drama, Restoration comedy, sentimental comedy, political satire, and opera); compare and contrast the British drama from these eras to that of both Germany and France and especially in the context of the work of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Friedrich Schiller, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Pierre de Marivaux, and Voltaire. (English Literature 412) Humanities 2011-11-10T17:32:40 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/shakespeare In this course, the student will attempt to determine why Shakespeare's works have become so widely revered. The student will begin by familiarizing ourselves with Elizabethan theatre, language, and culture, then conduct close readings of Shakespeare's most acclaimed plays, ending with his poetry. By the end of this course, you will have developed a strong understanding of Shakespeare's works and working knowledge of the Elizabethan Period in which he wrote. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: identify, compare, and contrast the major dramas and poems produced by William Shakespeare; describe Shakespeare's identity as well as provide an account of his life and the legacy of his work; describe Elizabethan England in social and historical context; list the major figures who likely shaped the work of Shakespeare; explain the origins of Shakespearean drama in Greek theater; define a variety of Shakespearean dramatic forms, including Shakespearean tragedy, history, and comedy plays; identify and describe the major themes of Shakespearean tragedy, comedy, and history plays; explain the roots of the Shakespearean sonnet in earlier sonnet traditions; identify and describe the major themes and ideas at work in Shakespearean sonnets. (English Literature 401) Humanities 2011-11-10T17:32:40 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/learning-from-the-past-drama-science-performance-spring-2009 " This class explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Milton and Ford. It compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing. The primary theme of the class is to explore how England in the mid-seventeenth century became "a world turned upside down" by the new ideas and upheavals in religion, politics, and philosophy, ideas that would shape our modern world. Paying special attention to the "theatricality" of the new models and perspectives afforded by scientific experimentation, the class will read plays by Shakespeare, Tate, Brecht, Ford, Churchill, and Kushner, as well as primary and secondary texts from a wide range of disciplines. Students will also compose and perform in scenes based on that material." Henderson, Diana Sonenberg, Janet Arts Humanities 2010-10-07T04:39:16 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/introduction-to-drama-fall-2008 " Drama might be described as a game played with something sacred. It tells stories that go right to the heart of what people believe about themselves. And it is enacted in the moment, which means it has an added layer of interpretive mystery and playfulness, or "theatricality." This course will explore theater and theatricality across periods and cultures, through intensive engagement with texts and with our own readings." Fleche, Anne Humanities 2010-10-07T04:39:16 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/studies-in-drama-too-hot-to-handle-forbidden-plays-in-modern-america-fall-2008 " Unlike film, theater in America does not have a ratings board that censors content. So plays have had more freedom to explore and to transgress normative culture. Yet censorship of the theater has been part of American culture from the beginning, and continues today. How and why does this happen, and who decides whether a play is too dangerous to see or to teach? Are plays dangerous? Sinful? Even demonic? In our seminar, we will study plays that have been censored, either legally or extra-legally (i.e. refused production, closed down during production, denied funding, or taken off school reading lists). We'll look at laws, both national and local, relating to the "obscene", as well as unofficial practices, and think about the way censorship operates in American life now. And of course we will study the offending texts, themselves, to find what is really dangerous about them, for ourselves." Fleche, Anne Humanities 2010-10-07T04:39:16 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/hamlet-dramatic-development Introductory note and exercises on dramatic development in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Denis Bates Humanities 2009-11-02T10:01:19 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/hamlet-soliloquy-test Cloze test based one of Hamlet's soliloquies. Key words have been omitted in full cloze style and answers are provided. Good revision exercise. Denis Bates Humanities 2009-11-02T10:01:19 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/learning-from-the-past-drama-science-performance-spring-2007 history, art and science, art vs. science, history of science, religion, natural philosophy, mathematics, literature, cosmology,physics, astronomy, alchemy, chemistry, plays, theater history, cultural studies, Shakespeare, Ford, Tate, Behn, Francis Bacon, Burton, Hobbes, Boyle, 17th century, England, English history, Charles I, Charles II, Cromwell, Henderson, Diana Humanities Social Sciences 2008-01-27T10:00:48 Course Related Materials http://www.oercommons.org/courses/playwriting-i-spring-2005 This course includes an introduction to the craft of writing for the theater. Through weekly exercises and work on a sustained piece, students explore the problems of scene structure, action, and their relation to the dialogue. Class meetings include examination of produced playscripts and discussion of student work. Harrington, Laura Arts 2008-01-27T10:00:48 Course Related Materials