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Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Company

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Instructor: Prof. Diana Henderson
Term: Spring 2014
Level: Undergraduate
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Studies in Drama: Stoppard and Company

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Lecture 1: Introductions; British comedy and you

Lecture 2: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1966 / 7).

Lecture 3: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead , across media.

Lecture 4: The Real Inspector Hound (1969 / 70).

Lecture 5: Travesties (1974 / 75); discussion of Aracdia in performance; exchange of essay on Travesties with a partner.

Lecture 6: Presentations of one another’s ideas about Travesties , with commentary.

Lecture 7: Travesties and Top Girls (play first performed in 1982).

Lecture 8: Scenes from an Execution (1985 radio version; 1990 staged).

Lecture 9: Scenes from an Execution and Serious Money (1987).

Lecture 10: Serious Money ; exchange of essay on Serious Money with a partner.

Lecture 11: Hapgood (1988); exchange of reader’s report on partner’s essay on Serious Money .

Lecture 12: Hapgood and Twilight: Los Angeles , 1992 (1994).

Lecture 13: Twilight : Los Angeles, 1992 .

Lecture 14: Arcadia (1993).

Lecture 15: The Invention of Love (1997).

Lecture 16: Class discussion

Lecture 17: Class discussion

Lecture 18: Labors of love, where we’ve arrived.

Lecture 19: From Kohout to Cahoot, from Wittgenstein to Dogg.

Lecture 20: Class discussion

Lecture 21: Rock ’n’ Roll (2006); voluntary sharing of students’ Stoppardian scenes.

Lecture 22: Rock ’n’ Roll .

Lecture 23: Exchange of reader’s report on partner’s major essay / project.

Lecture 24: A Number (2002).

Lecture 25: Student presentations on major project

Lecture 26: Student presentations on major project (cont.)