HISTORY OF THEATRES AND STAGING

THEATRE 631

Interdisciplinary and cross-cultural seminar on the historical, cultural, performative, aesthetic, and ideological construction of acting on stage.

ENGL/THEATRE 731

Problems of scholarship in the dramatic, performance and staging practices of major traditions of world theatre history between 500 BCE and 1700 including the theatres of ancient Greece and Rome; medieval, Renaissance and early modern Europe; and the Muromachi and Tokugawa eras in Japan.

THEATRE 570

An intensive study of stage rigging, scenic locomotion, set construction and structural analysis techniques.

ENGL/THEATRE 732

Problems of scholarship in the dramatic, performance and staging practices of major traditions of world theatre history since 1700, including melodrama, naturalism, the avant-garde, and other movements that helped shaped contemporary theatre.

THEATRE 327

Examines dress in Western civilization through the cultural context of history, art and fashion and related to theatrical costume design through a comparison of theatre designs to their primary visual sources.