FRIT-F 825: 21st/17th Century Francophone Theater

This theater history seminar will study how current productions from across the francophone world engage with French theater’s neo-classical past to shape francophone drama in different ways. Students can expect close readings of the French seventeenth-century dramatic canon (Corneille, Racine, Molière) as well as comparative analyses of 21st century Francophone plays (Mouawad, Reza, NDiaye, Shaheman, Lemoine, Kwahulé). Grades will be based on a presentation and scaffolded final paper. Readings in French, seminar language in French with English as needed.

This is an online synchronous course that meets Mondays and Wednesdays from 3-5 PM Central / 4-6 PM Eastern.

This is a Full Semester course. Participants may register for one Full Semester course OR one course each in Fall I and Fall II.

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