THAR 378 - Dramaturgy and Story Analysis

Unit(s): 3

This course explores how theater artists use text analysis to shape real-world production and performance work, and in so doing model the discipline and professional of dramaturgy for future theater professionals, teachers, and literary critics. Using methods drawn from the ancient Greeks (Aristotle) to contemporary cinematic story theory, students learn to determine the fundamental elements of dramatic storytelling, otherwise known as the dramaturgical essence of the play. Students read theoretical texts and read plays as case studies, and practice their own analysis through formal papers.