Aim.
1. To awaken in the student a taste for that which is essentially good in the drama, both as to content and form.
2. To acquaint the student with so much of the history and technique of the drama as is necessary for intelligent study.
Contents of Course.
Plays studied.
1. Antigone. Sophocles, or Alcestis. Euripides. 2. Everyman. 3. Hamlet. Shakespeare. Twelfth Night. Shakespeare, or some other Shakespearean tragedy or comedy. 4. She Stoops to Conquer. Goldsmith, or The School for Scandal. Sheridan. 5. The Doll’s House. Ibsen. 6. Trelawney of the Wells. Pinero, or Sweet Lavender. Pinero, or The Cabinet Minister. Pinero. 7. The Land of the Heart’s Desire. Yeats.
Collateral Reading.
Selected plays from the following:
- Agamemnon. Æschylus.
- Alcestis. Euripides.
- The Frogs. Aristophanes.
- The Captives. Plautus.
Early English Plays: