| SES # | Topics | ASSIGNMENTS |
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| 1 | Introduction - To an Experiment and a Century Objectives: To provide some basic grounding in the historical period, to establish the parameters of this subject, and to adapt our plan to fit the interests of our student participants. |
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| 2 | Discussion of Brecht's Galileo Objectives: To examine one twentieth-century playwright's artistic practice, to establish our abilities and approaches as readers of drama, and to consider the reasons for writing historical drama set in the seventeenth century. |
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| 3 | Galileo in Historical Perspective: Developing Questions | Preliminary self-assessment due |
| 4 | Discussion of King Lear | |
| 5 | The Changes Across a Century: The Example of Tate's King Lear | |
| 6 | Discussion with Historian of Science Arne Hessenbruch | |
| 7 | John Ford's The Broken Heart Optional Event: Literature presentation by playwright Max Hafler: "Faustus: Adapting and Directing the Elizabethan Bad Boy, Christopher Marlowe." |
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| 8 | Guest Scholar | |
| 9 | Discussion of Brome's The Antipodes and Caroline Theater | |
| 10 | Discussion of Shirley's The Cardinal | |
| 11 | Visit from Prof. Mary Campbell, Poet and Author of Wonder and Science | |
| 12 | Visit from Prof. Ellen Harris on Davenant and Music | 5-page paper/research write-up due |
| 13 | Prof. Sonenberg's Solo Day | |
| 14 | The Civil War, in History and Art | Topics for theatrical experiments due |
| 15 | Churchill's Light Shining in Buckinghamshire | |
| 16 | Poetry, Language, Wit | |
| 17 | Discussion of Two Versions of Hydriotaphia | |
| 18-19 | Experiments, Round One | |
| 20 | Reports and Discussion | |
| 21-22 | Reports and Break-outs | |
| 23-24 | That Which Needs Doing | 10-page paper/project due |
| 25-26 | Experiments, Round Two | Concluding self-assessment due |