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ENGL 1270.101
Writing About Literature:
Doubling, Deceit, Desire in Drama
First-Year Writing Seminar. MWF 11:15-12:05
3 credits. Section limited to 18 students.
Theatre is never more theatrical than when it doubles itself -- in strategically paired characters, in plays about playing, in tales of vindictive
intrigue, in reflections on its own dark or joyous origins. Beginning with Euripides' The Bacchae, this course will explore such doublings and
the frenzies they entail, reading tragedies and comedies by such playwrights as Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, Oscar Wilde, Bertolt Brecht,
Alan Ayckbourn, Jean Genet, and Suzan-Lori Parks, and viewing them, when possible, in live or filmed performance.
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