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Hong Kong Shue Yan University Department of English Language & Literature 1st term, 2016-2017

Course Title: Critical Analysis of Drama Course Code: ENG 320 Year of Study: 3 Number of Credits: 3 Duration in Weeks: 15 Contact Hours per Week: Lecture (2 hours) Tutorial (1 hour) Pre-requisite(s): Nil Prepared by: Michelle Chan

Course Aims

The aim of this course is to introduce students to dramatic forms and styles in the Western literary tradition. The course will look at different approaches to dramatic criticism and draw students’ attention to matters of staging.

Course Outcomes, Teaching Activities and Assessment

Course Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) Upon completion of this course students should be able to: ILO1 have a good understanding of the plays ILO2 understand different approaches to dramatic criticism ILO3 analyse theme, styles and characterizations of playwrights ILO4 examine plays critically ILO5 differentiate the relationship between the written script and the script in performance

Teaching and Learning Activities (TLAs) TLA1 Textual analysis of the plays TLA2 Staging a play TLA3 In-class discussion TLA4 Midterm test TLA5 Term paper Assessment Tasks (ATs) AT1 Term paper (3200-3500 words) 20% AT2 Stage performance 25% AT3 Midterm test 15% AT4 Final Examination 40% TOTAL 100% 2

Alignment of Course Intended Learning Outcomes, Teaching and Learning Activities and Assessment Tasks Course Intended Learning Teaching and Learning Assessment Tasks Outcomes Activities ILO1 TLA1,2,3 AT1,2 ILO2 TLA1,3,5 AT1,2,3 ILO3 TLA1,3 AT1,2,3,4 ILO4 TLA4,5 AT4,5 ILO5 TLA1,2 AT1,2,3

Course Outline

1 Introduction (1 week) 2 The Misanthrope, Molière (2 weeks) 3 Bacchae, Euripides (2 weeks) 4 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare (2 weeks) 5 Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts, George Bernard Shaw (2 weeks) 6 Rehearsal (2 weeks) 7 Reading Week (1 week) 8 Amadeus, Peter Shaffer (2 weeks) 9 Reading Week (1 week)

Academic Honesty You are expected to do your own work. Dishonesty in fulfilling any assignment undermines the learning process and the integrity of your university degree. Engaging in dishonest or unethical behaviour is forbidden and will result in disciplinary action, specifically a failing grade on the assignment with no opportunity for resubmission. A second infraction will result in an F for the course and a report to University officials. Examples of prohibited behaviour are: Cheating – an act of deception by which a student misleadingly demonstrates that s/he has mastered information on an academic exercise. Examples include: Copying or allowing another to copy a test, quiz, paper, or project Submitting a paper or major portions of a paper that has been previously submitted for another class without permission of the current instructor Turning in written assignments that are not your own work (including homework) Plagiarism – the act of representing the work of another as one’s own without giving credit. Failing to give credit for ideas and material taken from others Representing another’s artistic or scholarly work as one’s own Fabrication – the intentional use of invented information or the falsification of research or other findings with the intent to deceive To comply with the University’s policy, the term paper has to be submitted to VeriGuide.

Resources

Primary Texts: Euripides, Bacchae and other plays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 Molière, The Misanthrope, The Taruffe, and other plays, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 Shaffer, Peter, Amadeus, London: Penguin, 2007 Shakespeare, William, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, London: Arden Shakespeare, 1979 Shaw, George Bernard, Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts, London: Penguin, 2003 3

Supplementary Readings

Bentley, Eric (ed.), The Theory of the Modern Stage, London: Penguin, 1976 Berst, Charles A, Pygmalion: Shaw's spin on myth and Cinderella, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995

Bloom, Harold (ed.), George Bernard Shaw, Broomall, Pa: Chelsea House Publisher, 2000 --- (ed.), Molière, Broomall, Pa.: Chelsea House, 2003 Bradby, David, and Andrew Calder(ed.), The Cambridge companion to Moliere, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006 Bruckner, Lynne, and Daniel Brayton (ed.), Ecocritical Shakespeare, Surrey, England; Ashgate, 2011 Cooke, Virginia, and Malcolm Page, File on Shaffer, London: Methuen, 1987 Croally, N.T., Euripidean polemic: the Trojan women and the function of tragedy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 Evans, Judith, The politics and plays of Bernard Shaw, Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 2002 Gianakaris, C.J., Peter Shaffer, Houndmills: Macmillan, 1992 Innes, Christopher, The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998 Klein, Dennis A., Peter Shaffer, New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993 Lalande, Roxanne Decker, Intruders in the Play World: Dynamics of Gender in Molière’s Comedies, Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996 (ISBN-13: 978- 0838635926) Leggatt, Alexander(ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002 MacMurraugh-Kavanagh, M.K., Peter Shaffer: theatre and drama, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998 Michelini, Ann N., Euripides and the tragic tradition, Madison, Wis.: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987 Menon, Madhavi (ed.), Shakesqueer: a queer companion to the complete works of Shakespeare, Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2011 Norman, Larry F. (ed.), The public mirror: Molière and the social commerce of depiction, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999 Oakley-Brown, Liz (ed.), Shakespeare and the translation of identity in early modern England, London; New York: Continuum, 2011 Pagliaro, Harold, Relations Between the Sexes in the Plays of George Bernard Shaw, New York: Edwin Mellwn Press, 2004 Plunka, Gene A., Peter Shaffer: roles, rites, and rituals in the theater, Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1988 Segal, Erich (ed.), Euripides: a collection of critical essays, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1968 Shaffer, Peter, Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus: a play, New York: Perennial, 2001 Torrance, Isabelle, Metapoetry in Euripides, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 Wiener, Gary (ed.), Sexuality in William Shakespeare's A midsummer night's dream, Detroit: Gale Group, 2013