POST-1865 and DIVERSITY.

Topic: American Dramas.

A nation defines itself on its stage, and so we will read plays from the past one hundred years and consider how each one represents America. This class requires active engagement beyond weekly discussions.  Students will perform scenes collaboratively online, record monologues, and design visual images as part of their dramatic interpretations. Playwrights include August Wilson, Tony Kushner, David Henry Hwang, Donald Margulies, Quiara Alegria Hudes, Lynne Nottage, Larissa FastHorse. This class is fully online.

POST-1865.

This in-person class will cover literature written in England between 1798 and 1914. We will read poetry, drama and fiction by a diverse selection of English writers, reading the texts with a historical approach. We will consider the Romantic movement in poetry; the Victorian age; and The Age of Decadence. Writers include Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Shaw, Wilde and Forster.