Course Details
Country:
United Kingdom
Institution:
University of York
Course Title:
Killing Euripides? Drama from the Peloponnesian War to the War on Terror
Course Number:
ENG00043H
Course Description:
You will study plays and fragments from fifth century BC Athens, and will be encouraged to reconstruct imaginatively the conditions of their original performance, including the spatial arrangements of the ‘theatre’, the city, the players, and the audience.
Alongside the historical research we will analyze recent reinventions of ancient theatrical models, exploring ‘translations’ from Anouilh in the 1940s, through to recent experiments by writers such as Tony Harrison, Liz Lochhead, and Neil LaBute, and Martin Crimp’s play – based on the Trachiniae of Sophocles – about the war on terror. The course will focus primarily on tragedy, but work by Aristophanes – including a recent reworking of the Lysistrata set in an arms factory in Bradford – will also feature.
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
Pending For Approval
Course URL:
https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/manage/programmes/module-catalogue/module/ENG00043H/latest
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