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EUCL325 European Tragedy

Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 1 On Campus
Armidale Semester 1 Off Campus
Online level Level B - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is a UNE Supervised Examination held at the end of the teaching period in which you are enrolled.
Pre-requisites 24 cp
Co-requisites
Restrictions EUCL 225; European Drama 200/300
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Franco Leoni (fleoni@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit aims to show the development of tragedy in certain of the main countries in continental Europe, from the seventeenth century to the present day. The prescribed plays will be studied both as texts and in their staging context.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory

Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

Phaedra, (in Racine, Iphigenia, Phaedra and Athaliah)
ISBN: 9780140441222
Racine, J. (trans. J. Cairncross), Penguin 1963
Text For: Semester 1; On and Off Campus
The Cid in Corneille, The Cid, Cinna and The Theatrical Illusion (trans. J. Cairncross)
ISBN: 9780140443127
Corneille, P., Penguin
Text For: Semester 1; On and Off Campus
Complete Plays Lenz and Other Writings (trans. J. Reddick)
ISBN: 9780140445862
Buchner, G., Penguin
Text For: Semester 1; On and Off Campus
Mother Courage and her Children
ISBN: 9780413412904
Brecht, B., Methuen 2006
Text For: Semester 1; On and Off Campus
Waiting for Godot
ISBN: 9780571229116
Beckett, S., Faber 2006
Text For: Semester 1; On and Off Campus
Henry IV, in Henry IV, The Man with the Flower in his Mouth, Right You Are
ISBN: 9780714541105
Pirandello, L., Calder Publications
Text For: Semester 1; On and Off Campus
Cavalleria rusticana (in Verga, Three Plays)
ISBN: 9781863892520
Verga, G. (trans. B. Wales), Davesco Editrice 1995
Note: Available from the United Campus Bookshops, UNE
Text For: Semester 1; On and Off Campus
Recommended Material
Optional
None
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