Spring 2024 French BC3025 section 001

THEATER OF THE CLASSICAL AGE

THEATER OF THE CLASSICAL

Call Number 00089
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
225 Milbank Hall (Barnard)
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Caroline Weber
Type LECTURE
Course Description This course will provide a detailed introduction to the three great French dramatists of the seventeenth century, rightly known as the golden age of French theatre. Reading several canonical works by each of these three playwrights-Corneille, Racine, and Molière-students will closely examine the thematic concerns (the relationship between love and duty, the individual and the state, free will and divine providence; the problems of hypocrisy, dishonesty, sexual jealousy, and avarice; the nature of kingship and the extent or the limits of royal control; the differences between prescribed gender roles for men and for women; the recourse to and reworking of mythological and Biblical sources) the plays set forth, and the rhetorical strategies they employ (from classical, Greco-Roman devices such as metaphor, apostrophe, irony, preterition, prosopopoeia, and anagnorisis to the specifically French metrical pattern of the alexandrin). FREN BC1204: French Intermediate II or the equivalent level is required.
Web Site Vergil
Department French @Barnard
Enrollment 5 students (18 max) as of 11:06AM Saturday, December 7, 2024
Subject French
Number BC3025
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20241FREN3025X001