93183 PRE-RENAISSANCE DRAMA

Year	No.	Offer	Mode	Description			Cred. Pts
99	93183 	S1  	D 	PRE-RENAISSANCE DRAMA     	1.00

Contents

STAFFING:

Examiner: G. MC CART
Moderator: K. SCHAEFER

PRE-REQUISITE(S)

93529

RATIONALE:

SYNOPSIS:


This  unit  provides students with the opportunity to study the  texts
and  theatrical  conventions of the classic theatre of ancient  Greece
and Rome.

OBJECTIVES:

On successful completion of this unit students will have:

  1. a knowledge and understanding of classical Greek theatre;
  2. an overview of Roman Theatre;
  3. an understanding of how the theatre of these periods shaped
    the development of the western theatre tradition;
  4. a detailed knowledge of specific dramatic texts drawn from the
    Greek and Roman periods.

TOPICS:

 Description                                                    Weighting(%)
    

  1. The Conventions of Composition and Performance of
Tragedy and Comedy.

    

  2. Triumphant Men:  Aeschylus' 'The Oresteia'.

    

  3. The Heroic Temper:  `Aias', `Philoctetes', `Oidipous at
Kolonos'.

    

  4. Rebellious Women:  `Medea', `Antigone', `Elektra', `The
Bakchai', `Thesmophoriazusai'.

    

  5. Greek and Roman Reflections:  Plato, Aristotle, Pollus,
Vitruocies and Seneca's `Oedipus' and Thyestes.

TEXT and MATERIALS to be PURCHASED:

Ewans, M (ed), 1995, Aeochylus: The Oresteia, Everyman.

Sophocles, 1984, Three Theban Plays, translated by R Fagles, Penguin
Classics.

Sophocles, Ajax, {Philoctetes}, {Electra}, any edition.

Euripides, Ten Plays (trans. Moses Hadas). Bantam (includes
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus, Andromache, etc.)

Seneca, 1966 or later edition, Four Tragedies and Octavia Penguin
Classics.

Other material will be available from the examiner (Oidipous at
Other material will be available from the examiner (Oidipous at

RECOMMENDED REFERENCE MATERIALS:

Arnott, P, 1989, Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre,
Routledge, London.

Aylen, L, 1985, The Greek Theater, N J, Associated University
Presses.

Blundell, M, 1989, Helping Friends and Harming Enemies, Cambridge.

Burrian, P, 1985, Directions in Euripidean Criticism, Durham.

Bushnell, R, 1988, Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles'
Theban Plays, Ithaca.

Copley, F, 1969, Latin Literature, Ann Abor.

Cropp, M, 1988, Euripides: Electra, Warminster.

Dodds, E R, 1983, `On Misunderstanding the Oedipus Rex', in E Segal
(ed.) Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, 177-88, Oxford.

Dover, K, 1972, Aristophanic Comedy, Berkeley and Los Angeles.

Easterling, P E and Knox, B, 1989, The Cambridge History of Classical
Literature, University Press, Cambridge.

Euben, J (ed), 1990, The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road not
Taken, Berkeley.

Ferguson, J, 1987, Euripides, Medea and Elect {Companion to the
Penguin Translation, Bristol.

Gardiner, C, 1987, The Sophoclean Chorus, University Press, Iowa.

Goldhill, S, 1972, Reading Greek Tragedy, Cambridge.

Harriott, R, 1986, Aristophanes: Poet and Dramatist, Johns Hopkins
UP, Maryland.

Henderson, J, 1991, The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic
Comedy, Oxford.

Hogan, J C, 1984, A Commentary on the Complete Greek Tragedies:
Aeschylus, Uni of Chicago Press.

Hubbard, T, 1991, The Mask of Comedy, Ithaca and London.

Jones, J, c.1969; 1980, On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy, London.

Knox, B, 1966, The Heroic Temper: Studies in Sophoclean Tragedy,
Berkeley and Los Angeles.

Lattimore, R, 1964, Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy, London.

Pickard-Cambridge, A, 1968, The Dramatic Festivals in Athens,
London, Oxford.

Powell, A, 1990, Euripides, Women, and Sexuality, London and New
York.

Rabinowitz, N, 1993, Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in
Women, Ithaca and London.

Reckford, K, 1987, Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy, Chapel Hill and
London.

Rehm, R, 1992, Greek Tragic Theatre, London.

Reinhardt, K, 1979; 1933, Sophocles, Oxford.

Rose, H, 1936, A Handbook of Latin Literature, New York.

Rosenmeyer, T, 1971, The Masks of Tragedy: Essays on Six Greek
Dramas, New York.

Rosenmeyer, T, 1989, Senecan Drama and Stoic Cosmology, Berkeley.

Seale, D, 1982, Visions and Stagecraft in Sophocles, Croom Helm,
London.

Segal, C, 1993, Oedipus Tyrannus: Tragic Heroism and the Limits of
Knowledge, New York.

Segal, E (ed.), 1983, Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, Oxford.

Steiner, G, 1984, Antigones, Oxford.

Strauss, L, 1966, Socrates and Aristophanes, Chicago and London.

Taplin, O , 1977, The Stagecraft of Aeschylus, Oxford.

Vernant, J-P and Vidal-Naquet, P, 1990, Myth and Tragedy in Ancient
Greece, New York.

Walton, J, 1980, Greek Theatre Practice, Westport.

Walton, J M, 1984, 1996, The Greek Sense of Theatre, Methuen,
London.

Webster, T, 1936, An Introduction to Sophocles, London.

Winnington-Ingram, R P, 1980, Sophocles: An Interpretation,
Cambridge University Press, London.

STUDENT WORKLOAD REQUIREMENTS:

	ACTIVITY				HOURS
Lectures                                      	14
Tutorials/Workshops                           	28
Private Study                                 	125
Examinations                                  	3

ASSESSMENT DETAILS:

No  *F/S Marks     Due        Description                              Wtg(%)    LBL WWW
1   S              05/03/99  FIRST ESSAY                               15.00     N   N
2   S              26/03/99  SECOND ESSAY                              15.00     N   N
3   S              07/05/99  THIRD ESSAY                               30.00     N   N
4   S              END S1    END OF SEMESTER EXAMINATION               40.00     N   N

*F=Formative, S=Summative

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

1    The final grade is determined on the total accumulated points.
This information is accurate as at 17/11/99