Faculty of Education and Arts
School: Communications and Arts
This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
Unit Title
Comedy and Tragedy in DramaUnit Code
ENG2180Year
2015Enrolment Period
1Version
1Credit Points
15Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Description
Students test a range of critical and theoretical approaches in their analyses of a range of classical plays that have long enraptured audiences, inspired film directors and turned actors into super stars of the stage and screen. The unit studies comedies and tragedies in their literary and historical cross-cultural contexts as well as in those of their film adaptations, which also exemplify their own cross-cultural backgrounds. It examines ways of approaching dramatic literature and emphasises the particular importance of understanding the text and its portrayed world of people from the past, through considering the culture of its time of composition as well as that of its time of reinvention through film adaptations.
Equivalent Rule
Unit was previously coded ENG3141, ENG3180
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the written plays and film adaptations under scrutiny.
- Discuss the principal elements of comedy and tragedy and the ways in which these are communicated cross-culturally in text as well as in film performance.
- Relate the written texts and film adaptations studied to appropriate social, historical and cultural contexts and, through the generation of ideas,to the construction of those contexts.
Unit Content
- Analysis through a range of critical and theoretical approaches.
- Interpreting a play as a plan; how aspects of filmic production and the generation of ideas cross-culturally influence the composition and appreciation of a dramatic script.
- Placing plays selected for study and their film adaptations within a social, historical, and theoretical context.
- Study of selected comedies and tragedies and their film adaptations.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures and tutorials.
Assessment
GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
ON CAMPUS| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Essay ^ | Research Essay * | 50% |
| Examination ^ | Examination * | 50% |
^ Mandatory to Pass
* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency
Text References
- ^ Chekhov, A. (1904). The cherry orchard.
- ^ Ibsen, H. (1879). A doll's house.
- ^ Moliere, J.B. (1666). The misanthropist.
- ^ Sheridan, R. (1777). The school for scandal.
- ^ Shakespeare, W. (c. 1605). King Lear.
- ^ Wilde, O. (1895). The importance of being Earnest.
- Ioppola, Grace. (Ed.). (2003). A Routledge literary source book on William Shakespeare?s King Lear. London: Routledge.
- Leach, R. (2004). Makers of modern theatre. London: Routledge.
- Malcolm, Janet. (2001). Reading Chekhov: A critical journey. New York: Random House Inc.
- Sloan, John. (2003). Authors in context: Oscar Wilde. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Holledge, J. (2008). Addressing the global phenomenon of A Doll's House: An intercultural intervention. London: Routledge.
- Gilman, R. (1995). Chekhov's plays: An opening into Eternity. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Browne, K.T. (2007). Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Britain?s School for Scandal: Interpreting his theater through its Eighteenth Century social context. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.
- Bloom, H. (2007). William Shakespeare: Tragedies (Modern critical views). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
- Bloom, H. (2001). Moliere (Bloom?s modern critical views). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
- Bloom, H. (2000). Oscar Wilde (Bloom?s modern critical views). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
- Adler, S. (2000). Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov. New York: Vintage.
- Aebischer, P. (2004). Shakespeare?s violated bodies: stage and screen performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Website References
^ Mandatory reference
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Academic Misconduct
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism;
- unauthorised collaboration;
- cheating in examinations;
- theft of other students' work;
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
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Faculty of Education and Arts
School: Communications and Arts
This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.
Unit Title
Comedy and Tragedy in DramaUnit Code
ENG2180Year
2015Enrolment Period
2Version
1Credit Points
15Full Year Unit
N
Mode of Delivery
On Campus
Description
Students test a range of critical and theoretical approaches in their analyses of a range of classical plays that have long enraptured audiences, inspired film directors and turned actors into super stars of the stage and screen. The unit studies comedies and tragedies in their literary and historical cross-cultural contexts as well as in those of their film adaptations, which also exemplify their own cross-cultural backgrounds. It examines ways of approaching dramatic literature and emphasises the particular importance of understanding the text and its portrayed world of people from the past, through considering the culture of its time of composition as well as that of its time of reinvention through film adaptations.
Equivalent Rule
Unit was previously coded ENG3141, ENG3180
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit students should be able to:
- Apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the written plays and film adaptations under scrutiny.
- Discuss the principal elements of comedy and tragedy and the ways in which these are communicated cross-culturally in text as well as in film performance.
- Relate the written texts and film adaptations studied to appropriate social, historical and cultural contexts and, through the generation of ideas,to the construction of those contexts.
Unit Content
- Analysis through a range of critical and theoretical approaches.
- Interpreting a play as a plan; how aspects of filmic production and the generation of ideas cross-culturally influence the composition and appreciation of a dramatic script.
- Placing plays selected for study and their film adaptations within a social, historical, and theoretical context.
- Study of selected comedies and tragedies and their film adaptations.
Additional Learning Experience Information
Lectures and tutorials.
Assessment
GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units
Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.
ON CAMPUS| Type | Description | Value |
|---|
| Essay ^ | Research Essay * | 50% |
| Examination ^ | Examination * | 50% |
^ Mandatory to Pass
* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency
Text References
- ^ Chekhov, A. (1904). The cherry orchard.
- ^ Ibsen, H. (1879). A doll's house.
- ^ Moliere, J.B. (1666). The misanthropist.
- ^ Sheridan, R. (1777). The school for scandal.
- ^ Shakespeare, W. (c. 1605). King Lear.
- ^ Wilde, O. (1895). The importance of being Earnest.
- Ioppola, Grace. (Ed.). (2003). A Routledge literary source book on William Shakespeare?s King Lear. London: Routledge.
- Leach, R. (2004). Makers of modern theatre. London: Routledge.
- Malcolm, Janet. (2001). Reading Chekhov: A critical journey. New York: Random House Inc.
- Sloan, John. (2003). Authors in context: Oscar Wilde. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Holledge, J. (2008). Addressing the global phenomenon of A Doll's House: An intercultural intervention. London: Routledge.
- Gilman, R. (1995). Chekhov's plays: An opening into Eternity. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Browne, K.T. (2007). Richard Brinsley Sheridan and Britain?s School for Scandal: Interpreting his theater through its Eighteenth Century social context. Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press.
- Bloom, H. (2007). William Shakespeare: Tragedies (Modern critical views). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
- Bloom, H. (2001). Moliere (Bloom?s modern critical views). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
- Bloom, H. (2000). Oscar Wilde (Bloom?s modern critical views). Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
- Adler, S. (2000). Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg and Chekhov. New York: Vintage.
- Aebischer, P. (2004). Shakespeare?s violated bodies: stage and screen performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Website References
^ Mandatory reference
Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)
For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.
Academic Misconduct
Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:
- plagiarism;
- unauthorised collaboration;
- cheating in examinations;
- theft of other students' work;
Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.
The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.
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