Lehrende/r: Dr. Mark Berninger
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 122
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: Proseminar I British Studies
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinie
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: According to the new rules for the B.A. and B.Ed. degrees, this course has to be presentation-based. Topics for presentations will be distributed four weeks before term starts (28 September 2009). If you wish to be contacted at a different e-mail than your student account, please let me know. You are expected to register for a presentation by 19 October 2009.
Inhalt: The comic mode in drama is surely as old as the theatre itself and comedies have made up a decisive part of English literature for centuries. It could even be claimed that the comic mode seemed to have suited English dramatists particularly well as a large number of the greatest and funniest comedies in world literature have been written in English. In this Proseminar we will undertake to survey the entire history of English comedy from the Elizabethan age to the present. As with all survey classes (Proseminar I) this involves extensive reading even if we stick only to a limited number of examples. The plays discussed are William Shakespeare's As You Like It, William Wycherley's The Country Wife, John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. To round off the programme, examples of 20th century comedy and short glances at neighbouring genres such as the farce or stand-up comedy will be included.
Empfohlene Literatur: Please buy the following texts: William Shakespeare: As You Like It (any good edition will do but, if you do not have one yet, I would suggest the Arden edition ISBN: 978-1904271222, ca. 11 Euro) William Wycherley: The Country Wife (e.g. the New Mermaids edition, ISBN: 978-0713666885, ca. 9 Euro) John Gay: The Beggar's Opera (Penguin Classics, ISBN: 978-0140432206, ca. 10 Euro) Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (any good edition will do but, if you do not have one yet, I would suggest the Norton Critical edition, ISBN: 978-0393927535, ca. 11 Euro) Additional texts will be provided.
