New York: Theatre

Course Description - English 1191

Audiences since the Restoration have held their breath, laughed and cried at a breath-taking range of theatrical entertainment.  English 1191 explores the many forms of drama and traces the following exciting changes in drama and theatre from the Restoration to the present:

• Actresses burst onto the stage in the 1660’s.
• Restoration and 18^th-Century comedy sizzled with sex and intrigue.
• Victorian burlesques, varieties and extravaganza’s titillated and dazzled spectators.
• Ibsen and other 19^th-century playwrights challenged social conventions, scandalizing their audiences.
• Early in the 20^th-Century, avant-garde drama ripped away external reality to explore the psyche
• Later 20^th-Century theatre exploded with exhilarating musicals, perplexing absurdist tragi-comedies, cutting-edge experimental theatre, and provocative political theatre, such as African American, Asian, Chicano, Feminist, and Gay drama.
• Most recently, Immersive theatre has moved audiences from auditoriums to specific sites, inviting the them to join in the action - following characters as the play unfolds in different rooms or dancing with performers in a simulated rainstorm.

Prerequisite(s)

One of LET 3 or LPI equivalent; a minimum 80% in one of BC English 12 or BC English Literature 12; or an "S" in one of ENGL 1107, 1108, or 1110.  This course is often preceded by ENGL 1181, but it can be taken either before or along with ENGL 1181.

Langara English Test and Language Proficiency Index

Students planning to enrol in a first-semester English course must take the Langara English Test (LET) or Language Proficiency Index Test (LPI) prior to the semester in which they want to register. Students who have BC English 12 or BC English Literature 12 or equivalent with an 80% are not required to write the LET or LPI.

Prerequisites