It's time for Behn! I love this play, and I really enjoy teaching it--I just hope that the limited time we have is enough, and that the disruptions of midterm can be overcome. Tomorrow, students will have read acts 1 and 2 of the play, so I'd like to give them a little bio and …
The Country Wife?
Our last discussion in Theater History was taking up the role of the thematics of theatricality in The Country Wife; I wanted to organize our thinking on the theatricality of court culture, the generic features and cultural significance of comedy during the period, and the purpose served by "the playhouse" in Wycherley's drama. I started …
Tartuffe in World Literature
We're just beginning Tartuffe in EN203, and I think that students will be very interested in the play over the next meetings. In class, I went over some of the essential introductory context information, specifically the cultural and historical contexts of the "Enlightenment," and then considered the resonance between that context and first reactions to …
Tonya Howe 