Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

School: Arts and Humanities

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• Unit Title

  Comedy and Tragedy in Drama

• Unit Code

  ENG2180

• Year

  2018

• Enrolment Period

  2

• Version

  1

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  

• Unit Coordinator

  A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

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Description

Students employ a range of critical and theoretical approaches to analyse plays, from the ancient to the contemporary. Focusing on the theme of revenge, from Euripides, through Shakespeare, to contemporary Aboriginal examples, students investigate what constitutes the tragic and comedic across time, place, and culture.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3141, ENG3180

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to the written plays and film adaptations under scrutiny.
2. 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.
3. 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

1. A range of critical and theoretical approaches.
2. Conflicting Theories regarding the form and content of tragedy and comedy
3. Performance theories
4. Tragedies and Comedies and the contextual knowledge related to social, historical and cultural issues, from ancient Greece until the present.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

For more information see the Semester Timetable

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.

* Assessment item identified for English language proficiency

Core Reading(s)

• Ibsen, H., Haldeman-Julius, E., & E. B. S. C. O. (1923). A doll's house. New Zealand: Floating Press.
• Shakespeare, W. (2007). King Lear. Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press.
• Chekhov, A. (1987). The cherry orchard. New York: Grove Press.
• Wilde, O. (1983). The importance of being Earnest. Burnt Mill: Longman.
• Sheridan, R. (2004). The school for scandal. England: A. & C. Black.

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