English Drama Seminar AN -, ANN -, AFN - 216/d Course Description This is a seminar course, accompanying the lecture-course relatively closely, which means that the set texts occasionally do not overlap with the lecture requirements. The course will try to help students to read and re-read some twelve-fourteen plays more thoroughly, and also, to give the basis of the preparation for the end-term exam. Set texts: Sophocles: Oedipus Rex Everyman Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest Richard B. Sheridan: The School for Scandal Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest Shaw: Mrs Warren’s Profession John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World Requirements & Assessment Students must read the plays by the first date indicated for their discussion. Some classes may start with a brief written quiz to check the students’ familiarity with the work to be discussed. In the middle of the term, there will be a written in-class test. Every student will have to give an oral presentation during the semester and produce an appropriate end-term paper. No more than three absences are permitted. Students must be prepared for the class; therefore, not reading the assigned text counts as an absence. Grades will be based upon t class participation, the oral presentation, the quizzes, the mid-term test, and the end-term paper. Schedule Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 WeeK 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 09th February Introduction to drama 16th February Oedipus Rex, Aristotle: Poetics 23rd February Medieval Theatre. Everyman nd 02 March Renaissance theatre. Doctor Faustus 09th March Shakespeare. Globe theatre. Hamlet 16th March Hamlet 23rd March Othello 30th March A Midsummer Night's Dream 06th April The Tempest, HOMEWORK: King Lear SPRING BREAK 20th April Midterm in-class test 27th April The School for Scandal th 04 May The Importance of Being Earnest 11th May Mrs Warren’s Profession th 17 May The Playboy of the Western World