Take the words into yourself. Don’t just look at them; listen to how they sound as they tell you about themselves.
That’s poetry. Now listen and look as another person says the words, and changes into another person before your eyes.
That’s drama. And the experience doesn’t just change the person on stage or screen; it changes you too. In this course you’ll feel it happen.
Texts:
The Norton Anthology of Poetry, shorter edition
George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Euripides, The Bacchae
Ben Jonson, Volpone
A. R. Gurney, The Guest Lecturer
Four 5-page papers, midterm and final.