This is an MA level course.
BA students at FFUK will not be admitted.
Erasmus students with appropriate level language skills may be admitted.
The course offers students an opportunity to investigate the work of three of Britain’s most influential playwrights post-1956 in an extended and detailed manner. Pinter, Stoppard and Churchill have all played pivotal roles in British theatre, each producing a theatre that, in contrasting ways, explores the modalities of language and theatricality. Pinter, Stoppard and Churchill have each had remarkably long careers: Pinter began in the late 1950s and his final work Celebration was produced in 2000; Stoppard’s breakthrough work Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead was first performed in 1966, his latest play, The Hard Problem was produced at the National Theatre in 2015 and broadcast as part of the NT Live project; Churchill’s first full play, Owners, was staged in 1972 while her most recent work, Here We Go, will be performed in December 2015. Over the course of the semester we will study their work in depth with a view to understanding their methods, their ideas about theatre, the development of their work and their influence on subsequent playwrights.
Detailed information about course content is available at http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/
Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.09.2015)
Literature
Resources available in library:
Where there is only one copy of the assigned play extra photocopies of the text will be placed in the library with the librarian for you to collect and copy.
Primary: Churchill, Caryl. Cloud nine. London: French, 1985. Churchill, Caryl. Plays: one. London: Methuen, 1989 (10 copies). Churchill, Caryl. Plays: two. London: Methuen, 1990. Churchill, Caryl. Top girls. London: Methuen, 1993. Churchill, Caryl. Seven Jewish Children. http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whatson01.asp?play=548. Kilgore, Emilie S. ed. Landmarks of Contemporary Women's Drama. With an introduction by Wendy Wasserstein. London: Methuen, 1992. Pinter, Harold. A slight ache and other plays. London: Faber and Faber, 1991. Pinter, Harold. Ashes to ashes. London: Faber and Faber, 1996. Pinter, Harold. Mountain language. London: Faber and Faber, 1988. Pinter, Harold. Plays: four with an introduction by the author. London: Faber and Faber, 1991. Pinter, Harold. Plays: four. with an introduction by the author. London: Methuen, 1986 (8 copies). Pinter, Harold. Plays: one. London: Faber and Faber, 1991 (3 copies). Pinter, Harold. Plays: one. London: Methuen, 1987 (9 copies). Pinter, Harold. Plays: three. London: Faber and Faber, 1991 (2 copies). Pinter, Harold. The caretaker: educational text / Harold Pinter ; Edited and with an introduction by Margaret Rose. London: Faber and Faber, 1993. Pinter, Harold. The caretaker. London: Eyre Methuen, 1973 (2 copies). Pinter, Harold. The caretaker. London: Faber and Faber, 2000 (5 copies). Pinter, Harold. The caretaker. London: French, Cop. 1960 (10 copies). Pinter, Harold. The collection and the lover. London: Methuen & Co Ltd, 1963. Pinter, Harold. The Dumb Waiter. London: Samuel French, 1960. Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia. London: Faber and Faber, 1993. Stoppard, Tom. Every good boy deserves favour: a play for actors and orchestra. London: Faber and Faber, 1990. Stoppard, Tom. Hry. [z angl. orig. přel. Dana Hábová, Jaroslav Kořán, Jitka Sloupová] Praha: Divadelní ústav, 2002. Stoppard, Tom. Jumpers. London: Faber and Faber, 1976. Stoppard, Tom. Jumpers. London: Faber and Faber, 1986. Stoppard, Tom. Jumpers. New York: Grove Press, 1981. Stoppard, Tom. Rock'n'roll.[introduction Tom Stoppard; author's notes Tom Stoppard]. London: Faber and Faber, 2006. Stoppard, Tom. The real inspector Hound and other entertainments. London: Faber and Faber, 1993. Stoppard, Tom. The Real Inspector Hound. London: Faber and Faber, 1975. Walter Levy ed. Modern Drama: selected plays from 1879 to the present. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1999. Wandor, Michelene ed. Plays by Women. Volume four. London: Methuen, 1988.
Secondary: Bareham, T. ed. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Jumpers, Travesties: a casebook. London: Macmillan, 1990. Brook, Peter. The empty space . Repr. (1990). London: Penguin Books. Brown, John Russell ed. Modern British dramatists: a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968. Drakakis, John ed. British radio drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Dutton, Richard. Modern tragicomedy and the British tradition: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Albee and Storey . Brighton (Sussex, GB): Harvester Press, 1986. Elsom, John. Post-war British theatre criticism . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Esslin, Martin. Pinter the playwright . London: Methuen, 1992. Esslin, Martin. The theatre of the absurd [Penguin]. - 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged; repr. (1982). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980. Gordon, Robert. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers and The Real Thing: text and performance. London: Macmillan, 1991. Hayman, Ronald. British theatre since 1955: a reassessment . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Innes, Christopher. Modern British drama 1890-1990 . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Innes, Christopher. Modern British drama: the twentieth century . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Roose-Evans, James. Experimental theatre from Stanislavsky to Peter Brook London: Routledge, 2001. Shepherd, Simon and Peter Womack. English drama: a cultural history. Oxford; Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996. Sierz, Aleks. In-yer-face theatre: British drama today . London: Faber and Faber, 2001. Tőrnqvist, Egil. Transposing drama: studies in representation. London: Macmillan, 1991. Zeifman, Hersh and Cynthia Zimmerman eds. Contemporary British drama, 1970-90. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1993.
Websites: In-Yer-Face Theatre by Aleks Sierz http://www.inyerface-theatre.com/intro.html Post War British Drama (information and links on Osborne, Pinter, Stoppard) http://web.simmons.edu/~burkev/britishdrama1.html The German Society for contemporary theatre and drama in English http://fb14.uni-mainz.de/projects/cde/iindex.html The British Theatre Guide http://www.britishtheatreguide.info The Theatre Institute in Prague http://www.divadlo.cz/ OR http://www.theatre.cz/ HaroldPinter.org http://www.haroldpinter.org/home/index.shtml A Tom Stoppard Bibliography http://www.geocities.com/stoppard2004/index.html Article on Churchill by John A. Price ?The Language of Caryl Churchill: the Rhythms of Feminist Theory, Acting Theory, and Gender Politics? http://www.womenwriters.net/editorials/PriceEd1.htm
Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.09.2015)
Teaching methods
Seminar
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Syllabus
Detailed information about this course is available at http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/
Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.09.2015)
