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Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: English Great Plays will develop your skills in reading canonical plays written for live performance. In particular, you will develop the ability to navigate the relationship between two sorts of ‘play': a script and … For more content click the Read More button below.

Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies

This course can also be studied in the following specialisation: English

Great Plays will develop your skills in reading canonical plays written for live performance. In particular, you will develop the ability to navigate the relationship between two sorts of ‘play': a script and a performance. The course combines exercises in literary analysis of written text, with a consideration of performance conventions and signification in theatre production. Through a lecture series and seminars that incorporate rehearsed readings and evidence from productions, you will become familiar with a broad range of highly-regarded plays from antiquity to the present day. You will investigate the relationship of these plays to the contexts in which they were first staged and to our contemporary world. You will also have opportunities to analyse and intervene in the processes of canon formation. This course is part of the Theatre and Performance Studies stream, and can also be studied as an elective in the English stream.

Conditions for Enrolment

Prerequisite: 24 units of credit at Level 1

Course Outline

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Fees

Type	Amount
Commonwealth Supported Students (if applicable)	$821
Domestic Students	$4470
International Students	$4470

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Additional Information

This course is offered as General Education.

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Undergraduate

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Term 3

Campus

Kensington

Delivery Mode

Fully on-site

Great Plays

ARTS2127

6 Units of Credit