Course Name: Acted Over: Staging Revolution
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SLN: 15287
Meeting Time: W 1:30-4:20
Term: Winter 2022
Performances of revolution confront us with the specter of both literary and historical structures of repetition. Marx casts this problem as a generic one in which history appears twice: “first as tragedy, then as farce.” In this course, we’ll explore these questions of genre and politics in theatrical (and theatrically inflected) representations of the French and Haitian revolutions. Texts available in translation; discussion in English.