100 學年第 1 學期 二十世紀戲劇選讀 Reading in the Twentieth Centeary Drama 課程
綱要
課程名稱：（中文）二十世紀戲劇選讀
（英文）Reading in the Twentieth Centeary Drama
開課單位
外文系
永久課號
DFL2191
開課年級
3
授課教師： 林建國
學分數
3
必/選修
選修
先修科目或先備能力：
課程概述與目標：
Required texts: The Course Reader
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee
教科書（請註明書 Recommended texts: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Paper, 7th
名、作者、出版社、 edition
出版年等資訊）
Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka
課程大綱
單元主題
分配時數
內容綱要
講授
示範
習作
其他
備註
基本素質與核心能力：（學生修習完本課程之後，可以具備之基本素養與核心能力）
校級基本素養與核心能力：
教學要點概述：
1.學期作業、考試、評量
Class discussion and participation
10 points
Internet assignments and presentations 10 points
Weekly quizzes (on the plays) 25 points
Weekly blogs (on all assigned readings and films)
25 points
Term Paper (including the 10 points for “Paper Planning”) 30 points
Total 100 points
2.教學方法及教學相關配合事項(如助教、網站或圖書及資料庫等)
Teaching assistant:
Michelle Chiu 邱渝 (m210313own@gmail.com)
Homepage:
e-Campus (http://dcpc.nctu.edu.tw/)
COURSE REGULATIONS
1.
Class attendance is mandatory. An official leave from the University Administration must be
obtained for an absence and submitted to the instructor or T.A.
2.
Classroom decorum:
a.
No food or beverage (except drinking water) is allowed in class.
b.
Cellular phones must be switched to vibration mode.
c.
No taping or recording is allowed in class unless permission is granted.
3.
Correspondence:
a.
Write your e-mail in either English or Chinese.
b.
Always specify your English or Chinese name in full, as well as your student’s ID, in all
your correspondence.
c.
All course-related announcements will be sent to your e-mail address on file at the Course
Registration site (http://cos.adm.nctu.edu.tw/). Keep good maintenance of your mailbox and check
your mails regularly.
d.
Internet activities and course grades will be posted at our site at our e-Campus page
(http://dcpc.nctu.edu.tw). To enter, key in the user ID and password you use for logging in at the
Course Registration site.
e.
Who to write to: write to the T.A. only if an error in your grade is suspected. Otherwise,
direct all your queries to the instructor.
4.
Reserved materials. To locate the films and book items on reserve at the library, follow these
steps:
a.
at the library search page (http://webpac.lib.nctu.edu.tw/), click on the tag “Course
Reserves” (指定參考書) above;
b.
at the slot “Field to search” (查詢欄位), pull down the window and select “Course
Number” (課程號碼);
c.
key in the course number as 1599 to retrieve the list of reserved materials.
5.
Rights. The instructor reserves the final and exclusive rights to amend any portion of the
course regulations.
Class Discussion and Participation
1.
Students are expected to participate in class discussions and finish the assigned works and
readings. In all cases, English is the only language used.
2.
Students will be graded in principle by the frequency of their participation in class, not
entirely by the quality of their inputs.
Presentations
1.
Each student is expected to do 2 (two) presentations in class: on the assigned playwright(s)
and on his or her own term paper.
2.
Visual aids (such as the PowerPoint) are preferable for the first presentation, and optional for
the next.
3.
Playwright Assignment
a.
Students must work in pairs to do this assignment, and will receive a flat grade in each pair.
b.
Each pair of students will draw lots to select the playwright(s) they wish to present.
Playwrights already taken cannot be chosen by others.
c.
This assignment is subdivided into two parts: internet presentation and holding search.
d.
Internet presentation (5 minutes)
i.
Look up the internet and select 5 to 10 best sites related to your select playwright(s). In class
you present 3 to 5 sites in English.
ii.
Before the day of presentation (by 11:59 p.m. at the latest), go to the “Discussion” section
(located in the panel on the left) and upload your 1-2 page outline (as an attachment in either the
Word format or PDF) to the forum “Playwright Assignments.”
iii.
Follow this format to type your TOPIC: the assignment number and the name(s) of the
playwright(s), such as “2. Anton Chekhov.” Follow the same format to type the name of your
attached file.
iv.
In your file, state your student's IDs and your names (in Chinese, if possible).
e.
Holding search
i.
Look up the NCTU library catalog to see if there are materials—print or media—related to
your select playwright(s) that our library does not yet hold.
ii.
Make purchase recommendation by filling up the prepared form (soon to release) and
sending it to the instructor on the day of presentation.
2.
Term Paper Presentation. Each student makes a 5-minute presentation on his or her term
paper project in week 18.
Weekly Quizzes
1.
The weekly quizzes will be on the plays only, aiming to examine if the assigned texts have
been read, but not if they have been fully comprehended.
2.
The quizzes, starting in week 2, will be held at the beginning of each class session. Students
showing up late cannot take the quiz.
3.
Any student who is granted an official leave of absence will receive his or her quiz grade’s
semester average as the grade of the quiz he or she has missed.
Weekly Responses
1.
This assignment, to start in week 2, intends to help you prepare what you can bring up as
your input to our weekly discussion in class.
2.
Length. You write a paragraph of 5 to 20 sentences, or some 5 to 20 questions and/or
remarks (comments, criticisms, etc.).
3.
What. Unless specific topics or questions are released to you by the instructor to elicit your
specific response (check your e-mail regularly for this), you write each week a regular response to
the assigned readings (including the play) and the films (if one is assigned). Materials noted as
“recommended” are optional.
4.
How. Weekly responses must be submitted online by following these steps:
a.
Submission 1: To submit your blog, click on the buttons in this order at our e-Campus site:
Discussion [in the panel on the left] Add Topic [on top of the page].
b.
Submission 2: On the “Discussion” page, fill in “Discussion Topic” slot (see the next
instruction), leave the “Summary” slot blank, pull down the “Forum Name” window and make
a selection (such as “Week 3 Blogs”), and after filling your blog at “Discussion Content,”
click on “Submit” below the page.
c.
Submission 3: You can always revise, but not delete, the message you have posted. Deletion
request can be made by writing to the instructor.
d.
Title: Always give a title of your choice in the “Discussion Topic” slot that starts with
your student’s ID. For example, if your ID is 9988845 and your title "Signs Don't Matter," you
type "9988845 Signs Don't Matter." Avoid such general headings as “Afterthoughts,” “My
View,” etc.
e.
What to Write: You can always turn in a new blog or write a response to the blogs written
by your classmates. Either way, you write as pertinently as you can in your response to the assigned
readings and films. All internet protocols apply. You can write a comment, a remark, a criticism, but
never a description, a summary, or a free association.
f.
Deadline: The blog deadline is 11: 59 p.m. each Wednesday evening. Submit your blogs as
early as you can. Should there be an internet breakdown, the instructor shall assume no
responsibility.
g.
Grading: Your blog will be graded with the scale of 1.0 to 5.0. Expect your grade to fall
between 4.0 and 4.9 on average. If no blog is turned in, the grade is 0.
h.
Penalty: If you should miss the blogs for more than 3 times (i.e., for at least 4 times) the
whole semester, you will not be allowed to write your term paper.
Film Screenings
1.
There are six assigned films, to be viewed in weeks 2, 4, 5, 7, 11, and 17.
2.
Screening time: Tuesday evening at 6:00 p.m. in the week a film is assigned.
3.
Screening room: the auditorium at the Audio-visual Center.
4.
All assigned films (DVD or VHS) are put on reserve at the Audio-visual Center. You can
view them on your own in case you should miss a screening.
5.
Volunteers will be needed to assist in the screening.
Paper Planning
1.
The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize the undergraduate students with the MLA
documenting style of paper writing (http://www.mla.org./style).
2.
The latest edition of MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers is recommended.
3.
Exemption from this assignment will be granted, if a term paper in English written by you
for a different class is submitted and accepted upon inspection.
4.
A separate weekly session will be arranged to assist you in the paper planning exercise.
5.
Print and submit to the teaching assistant your homework assignment beginning week 4 on a
piece of A4 paper following the samples given at our website.
Term Paper
1.
Your term paper must show that you have learned substantially from this class.
2.
Make honesty your priority. Plagiarism of any form will not be tolerated.
3.
Students whose average quiz grade does not reach 3.50 will not be allowed to write the term
paper. Without the term paper, students will not receive a passing grade.
4.
Paper topics must be submitted no later than week 14 to the instructor for approval.
Submission
5.
Each student submits a term paper of 10-15 pages, including footnotes or endnotes, but not
the “Works Cited” list. (If you plan also to submit the same paper to a different class, you must
extend the number of pages to 25-35 and notify both instructors beforehand.)
6.
Papers will be due in week 19.
7.
Turn in both the hard copy and the soft copy, the latter of which should adopt this format to
write both the filename and the e-mail subject: “student’s ID, your name in Chinese or English,
Final Paper.” For example, “9488845 吳偉雄 Final Paper” or “9488845 Koala Wu Final
Paper”.
Format and Style
8.
The latest MLA documenting style will be adopted. Other formats will be accepted upon the
instructor’s approval.
9.
Students must fulfill the “Paper Planning” exercises (see above).
10.
No more than one third of your cited materials should be those from the internet or online
database. However, essays from the print materials available in the PDF format are not counted as
electronic resources.
Grading Scale for Term Paper
11.
C (Contents, 5 pts.), L (Language, 5 pts.), O (Organization, 5 pts.), RG (Relevance and
Originality, 5 pts.), and SF (Style and Format, 5 pts.). The subtotal is to be averaged and multiplied
by 4 to make 20 points. The “Paper Planning” exercises take up the other 10 points to make the
total as 30 points.
12.
For each page you fall short of or go beyond, 1.0 point will be deducted, with 5.0 points as
the maximal deducted points.
PAPER PLANNING
1.
Preparing the “Works Cited” list for essays and books (the cross-reference included).
2.
Preparing the “Works Cited” list journal essays.
3.
Preparing the “Works Cited” list for websites and online journals.
4.
From a print journal, photocopying an essay related to this class and preparing its “Works
Cited” entry.
5.
Preparing the “Works Cited” list for films and TV programs.
6.
Submitting a “Works Cited” list of 5 other works, reference materials, films, and/or
websites related to our course.
7.
Quoting words from an essay or chapter (in less than 4 lines and more).
8.
Paraphrasing words from an essay or chapter.
9.
Writing a thesis statement and an outline for an essay in one A4-page.
10.
Typing the first two pages and the “Works Cited” list for an essay according to the MLA
format.
11.
Submitting your “Works Cited” list comprising the items you expect to use in your paper.
12.
Handing in your paper outline, which should include the paper title and thesis statement, in
one A4-page.
13.
Discussing your paper outline with the instructor and/or TA.
14.
Submitting your revised paper outline.
15.
Submitting your full paper or the first (few) paragraph(s) of your paper.
排定時間
師生
晤談
Office: F314-C
Office hours: Wednesday, 2:30-4:30
p.m. (by appointment).
Time Thursday, EFG (1:30 – 4:30
p.m.)
地點
Classroom
FR207
連絡方式
Office number: (03)573-1792
(campus extension: 3-1792)
每週進度表
週
次
上課日期
1
9/15
2
3
9/22
9/29
課程進度、內容、主題
Edward Albee (1928-, U.S.) I
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?R (English, 1962), 1-95 (Act 1).
Edward Albee (1928-, U.S.) II
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?R 97-257 (Acts 2 & 3).
Reading: Continuum: “Albee, Edward [Franklin, III],” 15-16.
Film 1: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? R (1966), dir. Mike Nichols. 134
min. (DVD002058, DVD PN1995.9.S87 N 52)
Recommended: Edward AlbeeR (1995), dir. Nigel Wattis. 55 min.
Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936, Italy), Nobel Laureate (1934)
Enrico IV [Henry IV] (Italian, 1921), 139-208.
Reading: Continuum: “Pirandello, Luigi,” 598-599.
4
5
6
7
10/6
10/13
10/20
10/27
Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936, Spain)
Bodas de Sangue [Blood Wedding] (Spanish, 1933), 31-99.
Reading: Continuum: “Garcia Lorca, Federico,” 300-301.
Film 2:
Bodas de Sangue/Blood Wedding/血婚 R (1981), dir. Carlos
Saura. 71 min. (DVD020823, DVD987.83 2134 v.1)
Presentation: (1) Federico Garcia Lorca and Jean-Paul Sartre
Paper planning 1: Preparing the “Works Cited” list for essays and books (the
cross-reference included).
Антон Чехов [Anton Chekhov] (1860- 1904, Russia)
Вишнeвый сад [The Cherry Orchard] (Russian,
1903), 1536-1571.
Readings: 1. [Norton headnote] 1519-1523.
2. Types of Drama:
a. “Commentary on The Cherry Orchard,” 637-639.
b. “The Play in Performance,” 662-663.
c. Alan MacVey, “Directing The Cherry Orchard,” 63.
d. Frank Rich, “Review of Peter Brook’s The Cherry Orchard,”
664-665.
Presentation: (2) Anton Chekhov
Film 3: The Cherry OrchardR (1981), dir. Richard Eyre. (Instructor’s copy.)
Paper planning 2: Preparing the “Works Cited” list journal essays.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975, U.S.) I
Our Town (English, 1938), 21-59, Acts 1 & 2 (till “[Both leave the
stage.]”).
Reading: Continuum: “Wilder, Thornton [Niven],” 835.
Presentation: (3) Thornton Wilder
Paper planning 3: Preparing the “Works Cited” list for websites and online
journals.
Thornton Wilder (1897-1975, U.S.) II
Our Town, 59-91, Acts 2 (from “Stage Manager”) & 3.
Readings: 1. Continuum: a. “Acting,” 3-4.
b. “Stanislavsky [Alekseyev], Konstantin [Sergeyevich],” 722-723.
Presentations: (4) Edward Albee; (5) Luigi Pirandello.
Film 4: Our TownR (2005), dir. James Naughton. 120 min. (Instructor’s copy)
On-campus theatre performance: Note by Two-third Theatre Company (10/2829, Fri.-Sat., 7:30 p.m.)
Paper planning 4: From a print journal, photocopying an essay related to this
class and preparing its “Works Cited” entry.
8
曹禺 [Cao Yu, or Ts’ao Yu] (1910-1996, China)
No Class.
《原野》 [The Wilderness, Yuan Ye] (Chinese, 1937).
11/3 No class Reading: 〈「清楚地指導觀眾怎樣同情的方向」──《原野》的藝術
this week. 構思〉。《曹禺》(中國新文學大師名作賞析 22)R, 113-123。
Paper planning 5: Preparing the “Works Cited” list for films and TV
programs. (Hand in this assignment in the following week.)
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956, Germany) I
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan [The Good Woman of Setzuan] (German,
1943), 2213-2233 (Prologue to Scene 3).
11/10
Readings: 1. [Norton headnote] 2208-2212.
A four-hour
2. Continuum: a. “Epic Theatre,” 254.
9 class this week,
b. “Brecht, Bertolt [Eugen Berthold Friedrich],” 105-109.
starting at
Presentation: (6) Cao Yu and Eugene O’Neill
12:30 p.m.
Paper planning 6: Submitting a “Works Cited” list of 5 other works,
reference materials, films, and/or websites related to our course.
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956, Germany) II
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, 2233-2267 (Scene 3a to Epilogue).
11/17
Reading: Types of Drama: “Commentary on The Good Woman of Setzuan,”
A four-hour
1006-1008.
10 class this week,
Presentation: (7) Bertolt Brecht
starting at
Paper planning 7: Quoting words from an essay or chapter (in less than four
12:30 p.m.
lines and more).
Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Ireland), Nobel Laureate (1969)
En attendant Godot [Waiting for Godot] (French, 1952), 6-61.
Readings: 1. Continuum: “Becket, Samuel [Barclay],” 75-78.
11/24
2. 吳興國，〈殘缺與慈悲的笑容〉，21-25。(Wu Hsing-kuo, “A Flawed
A four-hour
yet Merciful Smile,” 28-34.)
11 class this week,
Presentation: (8) Samuel Beckett and Eugene Ionesco
starting at
Film 5: Waiting for GodotR (2001), dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg. 120 min.
12:30 p.m.
(DVD002075, DVD PR6003.E282 B 4 2000 v.1)
Paper planning 8: Paraphrasing words from an essay or chapter.
Harold Pinter (1930-2008, U.K.), Nobel Laureate (2005)
The Dumb Waiter (English, 1957), 2601-2622.
Readings: 1. Continuum: a. “Pinter, Harold,” 597.
12/1
b. “Theatre of the Absurd,” 767.
A four-hour
2. Types of Drama: “Commentary on The Dumb Waiter,” 1040-1041.
12 class this week,
Presentation: (9) Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard
starting at
Paper planning 9: Writing a thesis statement and an outline for an essay in one
12:30 p.m.
A4-page.
Caryl Churchill (1938-, U.K.)
Cloud Nine (English, 1984), 245-320.
Reading: Continuum: “Churchill, Caryl,” 157.
12/8
Presentations: (10) Caryl Churchill and Lillian Hellman; (11) August
A four-hour
Strindberg.
13 class this week,
On-campus theatre performance: Thunderstorm by Fujian People’s Art
starting at
Theatre for Cao Yu’s Centennial (12/7, Wed., 7:30 p.m.)
12:30 p.m.
Paper planning 10: Typing the first two pages and the “Works Cited” list for
an essay according to the MLA format.
14
Critical Interlude
No Class.
On-campus theatre performance: Paper Cut Dreamer (12/18, Sun., 2:30 p.m. &
12/15
7:30 p.m.)
No class this Paper planning 11: Submitting your “Works Cited” list comprising the items
week.
you expect to use in your paper. (Hand in this assignment in the following
week.)
Wole Soyinka (1934-, Nigeria), Nobel Laureate (1986)
Death and the King’s HorsemanR (English, 1975), 3-63.
12/22
Reading: Continuum: “Soyinka, Wole [Akinwande Oluwole],” 711-713.
A four-hour Presentations: (12) Wole Soyinka and Derek Walcott (1930-);
15 class this week,
(13) Bernard Shaw and William Butler Yeats.
starting at
Paper planning 12: Handing in your paper outline, which should include the
12:30 p.m. paper title and thesis statement, in one A4-page.
16
17
12/29
1/5
Dario Fo (1926-, Italy), Nobel Laureate (1997)
We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (Italian, 1974), 1104-1124.
Readings: 1. Continuum: “Fo, Dario,” 280.
2. Types of Drama:
a. “Commentary on We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!,” 11021103.
b. “The Play in Performance,” 1125.
c. Ed Siegel, “Fo’s Farce Works: Pay Is Reward,” 1125-1126.
Presentation: (14) Dario Fo and Franca Rame
Paper planning 13: Discussing your paper outline with the instructor and/or TA.
The Theatre of Cruelty
Marat/Sade (German, 1963) by Peter Weiss (1916-1982, Sweden)
Full title: Die Verfolgung und Ermordung Jean Paul Marats dargestellt
durch die Schauspielgruppe des Hospizes zu Charenton unter Anleitung des
Herrn de Sade (The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as
Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of
the Marquis de Sade)
Readings: 1. The play (optional).
2.
Artaud, “The Theatre of Cruelty: First Manifesto” (1932), Antonin
Artaud: Selected Writings R 242-251.
3.
“Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty,” The Essential TheatreR, 202205.
4.
Continuum:
a. “Artaud, Antonin [Antoine Marie-Joseph],” 41-42.
b. “Brook, Peter [Stephen Paul],” 113.
c. “Theatre of Cruelty,” 766-767.
d. “Weiss, Peter [Ulrich],” 825-826.
5. The New Encyclopadia Britannica (Micropadia):
a. “French Revolution,” vol 4, 978-979.
b. “Marat, Jean-Paul,” vol. 7, 813-814.
c. “Sade, Marquis de,” vol. 10, 291-292.
Presentation: (15) Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller
Film 6: Marat/SadeR (1966), dir. Peter Brook. 114 min. (NTNU: VHF001343,
VH PN6071 M 37 1967. NTHU: VR027413, DVDB PN1997.M373 M373
1998)
Recommended: Brook by Brook (2005), dir. Simon Brook. 72 min.
(DVD002824, DVD PN2287.B76 B 76 5 2005)
Paper planning 14: Submitting your revised paper outline.
18
19
1/12
Paper Presentations
A five-minute term paper presentation by each student.
Paper planning 15: Submitting your full paper or the first (few) paragraph(s) of
your paper.
1/16
Term Paper Due by Noon
No class this
No class.
week.
※ 請同學遵守智慧財產權觀念及勿使用不法影印教科書。
備註：
1. 其他欄包含參訪、專題演講等活動。
2. 請同學遵守智慧財產權觀念及勿使用不法影印教科書。
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