Course

Investigating the Theatrical Past - ARTS3126

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of the Arts and Media

Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 24 units of credit in Theatre and Performance Studies stream

Equivalent: MEFT3300

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Subject Area: Theatre and Performance Studies

ARTS3126 introduces ways of investigating and interpreting the theatrical and performance past. It presents methods for analyzing performance evidence and representations as well as history texts and historiographical theories. Topics may include: documentary evidence and iconography, periodization, historiography and historicization, biography and autobiography, social history and the performing body, and performance history and methodology from fields such as cultural and gender studies.

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