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Approaches to Teaching Medieval English Drama
productions, and related Internet sites. The second section, “Approaches,” offers strategies for teaching the plays as performance, for introducing students to the language of Renaissance drama, and for demonstrating the collaborative nature of Renaissance authorship. Contributors also consider the plays in the context of racial, gender, religious, and class issues in the Renaissance and compare the dramas
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Kord, the editor and translator of Dämmerung , discusses the reception of Bernstein’s works—at first enthusiastic, then increasingly sexist—and the theme, in Dämmerung , of the culturally sanctioned oppression of women. In this naturalist drama, a woman eye surgeon treats the daughter of a man who is prejudiced against educated women. Her successful treatment wins the father’s affection for her
graduate students alike find it engaging”— and also discussing his other dramatic works.
British drama
Waiting for Godot offers as much of a challenge in the classroom today as it did to its early audiences in the 1950s. It has become “the centerpiece of a range of college and university courses. Whatever the context and approach, the play continues to yield readings that richly contribute to the study of both drama and culture,” write June Schlueter and Enoch Brater, the book’s editors. This
“To know Goethe’s Faust is to know the humanities,” writes the editor of this book. But Faust may be difficult to present to undergraduates, not only because of the problems of translation, if the play is taught in English, but also because of the special uses of language, mythology, history, and science in Goethe’s sprawling cosmo-drama. This volume provides help and encouragement to the
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