Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies

ARTS3126 invites you to experience and reflect on the activities of a theatre historian. To this end it introduces ways of investigating and interpreting seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British theatre. For example, it presents methods for analyzing: performance evidence such as playscripts and set designs; literary and visual representations of theatre; and history texts about theatre and its social context. As well as addressing topics such as documentary evidence, historiography, and iconology, this course also introduces interpretive methods from cultural and gender studies, and offers opportunities for reconstructing aspects of historical staging practices and performance events.