Weekly Schedule

Tuesday:  Review my Video Lecture and Post Assignments

Wednesday: Office Hours (TBD) (attendance optional)

Monday: Class Open Lab post due by 12 pm (so I can respond before we move on)

***Note: Class begins Friday 5/28

Grading Breakdown: Posts 1,2,3, (25% each) ;   Final Research Project (25% )

 

Week 1: Monday, 5/31 – Friday, 6/4 – Greek Drama

Welcome and Introduction

Read:  Sophocles Oedipus Rex (429 BC) and Aristophanes Lysistrata (411BC) [short version]

[Here is a longer version of Lysistrata ]

View: Spike Lee’s film adaptation of Lysistrata (Chi-Raq) (2015) and this brief trailer from a great film version of Oedipus Rex (1957)

Post a Response to a Key Scene from Each Play

 

Week 2: Monday, 6/7 – Friday, 6/11 – William Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age

Read:  William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1596)

If you prefer, here is a modern text translation of the play. You can read the modern translation next to Shakespeare’s original text.

View: Film adaptation (Midsummer Night’s Dream Part I,  MND Part II)  This version is the NYC Shakespeare in the Park production (1982).

I also recommend the film version (1968) by the Royal Shakespeare Company on Amazon Prime.

Post a Response to a Key Scene from the play.

Extra Credit: Read William Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1601) and/or watch the 1948 film version of Hamlet (featuring Lawrence Olivier).

For an excellent modern rendition, I recommend the film starring Mel Gibson (Hamlet).

 

Week 3: Monday, 6/14 – Friday, 6/18 – American Drama at Mid-Century

Read: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun  (1959)

View: Film adaptation of this film

Post a Response to a Key Scene from the Play

Extra Credit:  View Clybourne Park (2017), a modern sequel to A Raisin in the Sun.

 

Week 4: Monday, 6/21 – Friday, 6/25

Work on Final Project with Annotated Bibliography (Under Research Project Assignment)

You can do your final project on Oedipus, Lysistrata, Midsummer Nights Dream, A Raisin in the Sun, or the play/musicals I’ve listed below.

 

EXTRA CREDIT:  Read/watch one of the following Musicals:

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s new film In the Heights (2021) or his Hamilton (2015)

August Wilson’s recent film (based on his  play) Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)

Here is the text of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s play Hamilton (2015)

 

Week 5: Monday, 6/28 – Thursday, July 1

Submit Final Project with Annotated Bibliography

 

 

 

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