ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
Learning about the main movements, authors and plays of the English dramatic tradition from the late Middle Ages to the present time.
The students will be capable of analysing the texts included in the reading list by taking into account generic conventions and the complex interconnections with the historical context (social, economic, political and cultural).
1. English Drama: A selective historical overview
2. Late Medieval Drama (14th and 15th centuries)
2.1. Historical Context
2.2. Genres: Mystery Plays, Miracle Plays and Morality Plays
2.3. “Everyman” (selection) (anon, 15th c.)
3. Renaissance drama (1575-1640)
3.1. Sixteenth-century predecessors
3.2. The development of theatrical activity: playhouses, companies and audiences
3.3. Genres: Histories or History Plays, Comedies and Tragedies
3.4. Playwrights: the “university wits”, Shakespeare and Jonson
3.5. “Hamlet” (W. Shakespeare, c. 1601)
4. Restoration (1660-1690) and Eighteenth-Century Drama
4.1. Continuity and change: playhouses, companies, repertoire, tastes, genres and playwrights
4.2. The “Comedy of Manners”: from Wycherley to Goldsmith and Sheridan
4.3. “A School for Scandal” (R. Sheridan, 1777)
5. Turn-of-the-century drama (1890-1914): Irishmen in London and Dublin
5.1. The London stage:
5.1.1. Aestheticism: Wilde
5.1.2. Naturalism: Bernard Shaw
5.2. The Dublin stage:
5.2.1. Yeats and the “Irish Literary Theatre”: myth and nation
5.2.2. Synge: tragi-comic costumbrism
5.3. “The Playboy of the Western World” (J. M. Synge, 1907)
6. Drama from the 1950s: social drama e the theatre of the absurd
6.1. Predecessors in the interwar period: O’Casey and Coward
6.2. Historical and theatrical context in the postwar period
6.3. Social critique, rebelliousness and protest: Osborne and the “angry young men”
6.4. The theatre of the absurd: Pinter
6.5. Feminism, socialism and experimentation: "Top Girls" (Caryl Churchill, 1982)
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY
You can use any annotated critical edition of: “Everyman”, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, Sheridan’s “A School for Scandal”, Synge’s “The Playboy of the Western World” and Pinter’s “The Birthday Party”.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
BALME, Christopher B. The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008.
DILLON, Janette. The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
HARP, Richard and Stanley STEWART. The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2001.
INNES, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008.
KETTLE, Arnold, ed. Shakespeare in a Changing World. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1964.
LENNARD, John and Mary LUCKHURST. The Drama Handbook: A Guide to Reading Plays. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002.
MURRAY, Christopher. Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Mirror Up to Nation. New York: Syracuse UP, 2000.
NORMINGTON, Katie. Medieval English Drama. Cambridge: Polity, 2009.
PAVIS, Patrice. Dictionary of the Theatre: Terms, Concepts, and Analysis. Toronto: Univ of Toronto P, 1999.
RABY, Peter, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.
RICHARDS, Shaun, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
SANDERS, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature. Oxford: Clarendon, 1994, 1996. pp. 73-76, 103-106, 144-185, 266-272, 298-301,
475-483, 542-544, 585-592.
SHEPERD, Simon and Mick WALLIS. Drama/Theatre/Performance. Oxford: Routledge, 2004.
SHEPERD, Simon. The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009.
SMITH, Emma and Garret SULLIVAN, Jr, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.
SMITH, Emma. 2007. The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
THOMSON, Peter. The Cambridge Introduction to English Theatre, 1660-1900. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
WILSON, Colin. The Angry Years: The Rise and Fall of the Angry Young Men. London: Robson, 2007.
WOMACK, Peter. English Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.
WORTH, Katherine. Sheridan and Goldsmith. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992.
The following skills and abilities are to be developed by the student:
- Critical analysis of English texts from all the historical periods of the subject
- Comprehensive reading of dramatic texts
- Contextualisation of plays within the historical, political and social period in which they acquire their meaning
- Familiarisation with the English language of the various historical periods of the program
- Proper use of the bibliographical resources on the dramatic tradition of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Basic and general competencies of the subject in the verified memory of the degree at http://www.usc.es/gl/centros/filoloxia/graos/grao_ingles/grao_ingles.ht…
CB1- Students have to prove that they possess and understand the knowledge belonging to their field of study, which has its roots in secondary education. Usually, this level is supported by advanced textbooks although it may include some aspects which imply acquired knowledge originated in the forefront of the students' field of study.
CB2- Students will have to know how to apply their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way. They will also have to master the competencies, which are usually shown through the elaboration and defence of arguments and the solution to problems within their field of study.
CB3- Students should have the capacity to extract and to interpret relevant data (usually within their field of study) in order to make judgements including a reflection on relevant social, scientific and ethical topics.
CB4- Students will be able to transmit information, ideas, problems and solutions to both a specialised and a non-specialised audience.
CB5- Students will have developed those learning abilities which are necessary for the undertaking of later studies with a high level of autonomy.
CG1- Linguistic and communicative competence: use of the English language as a means for oral and written communication, for representation and understanding of reality, for construction and communication of knowledge and for the organisation and auto-regulation of thoughts, emotions and behaviour. The knowledge, attitudes and skills inherent to this competence allow students to express thoughts, emotions, experiences and opinions in the English language. They could also engage into dialogues, make ethical and critical judgements, generate ideas, structure knowledge, give coherence and cohesion to their discourse and actions, adopt decisions and enjoy reading, listening or expressing themselves both orally and in writing.
CG8- Competence in the processing of information, culture and literature in a second language.
LECTURES (Docencia Expositiva): 32 h. (2hrs. per week). Students will be introduced to theoretical concepts, authors, literary background and theatrical movements in order to approach the works included in the course syllabus.
SEMINARS (Docencia Interactica): 16 h. (1 hrs. per week). Students will do brief presentations on a topic related to the texts in the compulsory reading list that the instructor will have assigned in advance. A discussion will follow in which all students are expected to participate.
Tutorials:3 hrs. for topic assignment for the seminars and questions having to do with any aspect of the course.
-ATTENDANCE TO ALL SESSIONS AND ACTIVE PARTICIPATION (SEMINARS): 30 per cent.
-FINAL WRITTEN EXAMINATION: 70 per cent (students must obtain at least half this value [35 per cent] to pass).
Please, notice:
1) These criteria will apply to course assessment both in May and July
2) If a student does not attend the seminar session in which he/she was supposed to do a presentation on an assigned topic with no justification, he/she will be graded 0 and that mark will add to the rest of his/her grades (attendance to all sessions and active contribution to seminars) when calculating the average that makes up the 30 per cent of the final grade.
3) Attendance will not be compulsory only in the case of those students who had attended all course sessions regularly the previous year. Nevertheless, they must tell the instructor about this particular circumstance at the beginning of the class period. They have the option of keeping the grade obtained the previous year for attendance to all sessions and active participation in seminars. In case a student decides not to keep his/her grade, he/she will
have to attend all the sessions and do the oral presentations on the assigned topics.
4) In case some student is exempt from attending the course sessions, the 100 per cent of the final grade will be assessed by final written examination.
5) If fraudulent practices are detected in assigments or exams of any kind, the “Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
Estimated study time (readings, preparation for seminars, revising for exams, tutorials): 100 hours.
-Attendance to both lectures and seminars is OBLIGATORY.
-Reading prior to seminars is REQUIRED.
-Students should take notes when reading and avoid substituting critical works for the reading of the plays in the list.
Avoid tardiness.
Jorge Sacido Romero
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811880
- jorge.sacido [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 05.21.2025 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C03 |
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