230234 The Skull Beneath the Skin: Staging a Renaissance Revenge Tragedy (S) (WiSe 2017/2018)

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In WS 2017/18, Bielefeld University’s English Drama Group will stage a production of The Revenger’s Tragedy (1607, possibly by Thomas Middleton, or perhaps by Cyril Tourneur). It is a farcial, macabre, Tarantino-esque romp with sick jokes, lots of blood, neurotic men worried about their masculinity and women exasperated by these men. This seminar intends to overlap with the production in several ways: The focus of our discussions will be performance-oriented, so only students prepared to take part in in-class reading and book-in-hand acting experiments need enrol for this class. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO TAKE PART IN THE EDG’S STAGE PRODUCTION, but you must be prepared to stand up and speak in class, take part in the workshops, and to research and present to the actors context information (e.g. about staging history, cultural history, genre) that might be helpful for their own work (and possibly end up in the programme notes). It is because of this requirement to attend the workshops that the class has three hours of contact time rather than the conventional two.

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Thomas Middleton (or Cyril Tourneur), The Revenger's Tragedy. You must have an annotated critical edition of the play, for example the New Mermaids one edited by Brian Gibbons or the Cambridge University Press one edited by George Parfitt, or the Revels edition by R.A. Foakes. Your edition must have a proper introduction and annotations to the text.

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Frequency Weekday Time Format / Place Period  
weekly Fr 14-17 T2-208 09.10.2017-02.02.2018
not on: 12/29/17 / 1/5/18
one-time Sa 10-18 U2-205 14.10.2017
one-time Sa 10-18 U2-200 11.11.2017
one-time Sa 10-18 U2-205 11.11.2017

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Module Course Requirements  
23-ANG-AngVM1 Vertiefungsmodul 1: Britain 1.2 British Literature: Genre, Periods, Authors Study requirement
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1.3 British Cultural Studies: Theories, Periods, Media Study requirement
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- Graded examination Student information
23-ANG-AngVM6 Vertiefungsmodul 6: Media, Arts & Communication VM 6.1 Theoretical and Historical Contexts Study requirement
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- Ungraded examination Student information

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Degree programme/academic programme Validity Variant Subdivision Status Semester LP  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM4    

A willingness to stand up and participate in acting exercises in class, and to occasionally attend the EDG'S rehearsals to give them feedback and to present historical and cultural contexts of the play to them. - This class has three hours of contact time (Fri 14-17), which doesn't mean that we will meet for three hours each Friday, but that there will be a couple of workshops that you are expected to attend. The first one is Saturday(!), 14 October 2017 (= a read-through of the play together with the Drama Group); the second one is Saturday, 11 November (= body work).

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