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DRAM 273 Medieval Drama Performance Units: 3.00
A practical performance course where students will actively explore historical performance styles and conventions. The focus of this course will be the rehearsal of one or more plays to be presented in period acting style and costume as part of England's Medieval Fair at the culmination of the course.
Learning Hours: 104 (36 Seminar, 32 Off-Campus Activity, 36 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above or registration in the MUTH Plan.
Corequisite MUTH 271.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and assess medieval dramatic texts to identify practical cues for physical or vocal action.
- Apply intensive training in present-day performance techniques and practices in order to create historically-engaged productions of pre-modern texts.
- Develop facility with strategies of dramaturgical and directorial practice to generate understandings of "how plays mean."
- Immerse themselves in scholarly reconstructions of the cultural and social practices of early England, while at the same time engaging in informed critiques of those reconstructions, to deepen and complicate their understanding of the status and function of performance in medieval society.
- In the process of those productions, historicize, reframe, and think critically about the conventions of present-day theatrical performance, particularly those that would otherwise seem fundamental or traditional.