Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Humanities Arts Social Science

School

Communication & Arts School

Units

2

Duration

One Semester

Class hours

Seminar 2 Hours/ Week

Prerequisite

Students should be in their final year of study and have completed DRAM1010 + DRAM2030

Assessment methods

Tutorial exercises

Presentation

Research Essay

Course enquiries

Associate Professor Stephen Carleton

Current course offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024) St Lucia In Person Profile unavailable

Please Note: Course profiles marked as not available may still be in development.

Course description

Compulsory Third Year Course (Capstone). This course examines theatre's engagement with themes of violence and conflict, and theatre's subsequent potential to affect its audiences viscerally. Moving backwards and forwards across theatre history, we trace our way though some of the most intriguing plays in the canon, touching on Greek theatre, Renaissance theatre, the nineteenth-century gothic, sensational melodramas, and contemporary iterations of murder, mayhem, and madness on stage, making the connections between certain tropes and approaches that have reoccurred or changed over time. Students will read accompanying critical theory and will have the opportunity to develop their own individual research projects. This course aims to deepen students' understanding of theatre history and historiography, while consolidating their research skills.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) St Lucia In Person Course Profile
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) St Lucia Flexible Delivery Course Profile
Semester 2, 2019 (22/07/2019 - 16/11/2019) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2018 (23/07/2018 - 17/11/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2017 (24/07/2017 - 18/11/2017) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2016 (25/07/2016 - 19/11/2016) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2015 (27/07/2015 - 21/11/2015) St Lucia Internal Course Profile