Period Styles

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This course focuses on developing awareness of the varied methods, conventions, and demands of plays from different cultures and eras, from the Classical Greek period to the 1950s. Students will be directed in multiple scenes from a full-length period production, studying the elements, including table work, script analysis, historical research, and application to the play. Students will perform for an invited audience at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: THEA 141 or THEA 242. Offered spring term odd years. Four semester hours.