Literary Studies : Performance Works

Institution: 
University of Canberra
Code: 
8142
Year: 
2009
Levels: 
Undergraduate

Features an introduction to some "classic" performance texts (eg Homer, Shakespeare, ) and how such texts have been appropriated by later authors. Introduces plays and other performance pieces, including new media performance, selected from early works through to very recent examples with a focus on adaptation.

Non-Austlit Texts: 

Euripides. Medea. UK: Currency Press, 1995

Satrapi, Marjane. Persepolis 1 And 2 (film Tie In). UK: Vintage Random House, 2008

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting For Godot. UK: Faber & Faber, 2006

Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. UK: Penguin, 2005

Organisational Body: 
Faculty of Arts and Design
Degrees: 
Categories:
Unit Contexts: Drama/Theatre studies