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UW Center for Performance Studies

Drama 583


Course Name: Analysis of Dramatic Texts
Instructor:

SLN: 13399
Meeting Time: T/Th 2:30-4:50pm
Term: Spring 2021

Analysis of Dramatic Texts

Foundations in Performance Studies

Foundations in Performance Studies: This course focuses on the emerging “knowledge formation” of performance studies. It includes discourses concerning the relationship between text and practice; performance as a reflection of society, a witnessing to an experience, or a challenge to social structures or ways of knowing; emerging ideas of audience reception theory; and so forth.

By the end of the course, students will have

  1.  a basic comprehensive knowledge of some of the “canonical” theorists and texts associated with performance studies,
  2.  a knowledge of several recent case-studies to which these theories can be applied for deeper understanding, and
  3.  a knowledge of the ways in which meaning is produced through both textual and performative discourses.