Week 16 Agenda [Tentative]

Monday, May 6th

• CONFERENCE PAPER/DRAMATIC WORK DUE IN MY MAILBOX IN ELABS 125 BY 5PM

Wednesday, May 8th

• GET-TOGETHER@UNIVERSITY DRAFTHOUSE, 7PM

Week 15 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 30th

• Share Creative Projects
• Homework
• Continue working on your Conference Paper/Dramatic Work
• CONFERENCE PAPER/DRAMATIC WORK DUE IN MY MAILBOX IN ELABS 125 BY 5PM ON MONDAY, 5/6

Thursday, May 2nd

• Malinalli@Jeffers Theatre, 7-10pm

Week 14 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 23rd

• Pedro Cano:
• Hudes, Water by the Spoonful
• Ybarra, “How to Read a Latinx Play in the Twenty-first Century: Learning from Quiara Hudes”
• Homework
• Prepare your Creative Project presentation

RR#13: "Water by the Spoonful" & “How to Read a Latinx Play in the Twenty-first Century"

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
2. Include your full name at the end of your comments. Unnamed comments will be deleted.
3. From the "Comment As" drop-down menu, choose Anonymous, then click "Publish."
4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 13 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 16th

• Zugay Trevino:
• Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
• Aiello, “The Tragedy of Becoming: Hegel in Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 4/23:
• Hudes, Water by the Spoonful
• Ybarra, “How to Read a Latinx Play in the Twenty-first Century: Learning from Quiara Hudes”
• post RR#13 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 4/21

RR#12: "Anna in the Tropics" & “The Tragedy of Becoming: Hegel in Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
2. Include your full name at the end of your comments. Unnamed comments will be deleted.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 12 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 9th

• Julietta Rivera:
• Edson, Wit
• Keaveney, “Death Be Not Proud: An Analysis of Margaret Edson’s Wit”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 4/16:
• Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
• Aiello, “The Tragedy of Becoming: Hegel in Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics”
• post RR#12 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 4/14

RR#11: "Wit" and “Death Be Not Proud”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 11 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, April 2nd

• Samyra Perez:
• Wilson, Fences
• Koprince, “Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson’s Fences”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 4/9:
• Edson, Wit
• Keaveney, “Death Be Not Proud: An Analysis of Margaret Edson’s Wit”
• post RR#11 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 4/7

RR#10: "Fences" & "Baseball as History and Myth"

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 10 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, March 26th

• Guest Lecturer: Dr. Marci McMahon
• Enrique Perez:
• Valdez, Zoot Suit
• Lucas, “Reinventing the ‘Pachuco’: The Radical Transformation from the Criminalized to the Heroic in Luis Valdez’s Play ‘Zoot Suit’”
• Herrera & McMahon, "¡Oye, Oye!: A Manifesto for Listening to Latinx Theater"
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 3/26:
• Wilson, Fences
• Koprince, “Baseball as History and Myth in August Wilson’s Fences”
• post RR#10 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 3/31

RR#9: "Zoot Suit"; "Reinventing the 'Pachuco'"; & "¡Oye, Oye!"

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 9 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, March 19th

• Danny Olivarez:
• Shaffer, Equus
• Mustazza, “A Jealous God: Ritual and Judgment in Shaffer’s Equus”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 3/26:
• Valdez, Zoot Suit
• Lucas, “Reinventing the ‘Pachuco’: The Radical Transformation from the Criminalized to the Heroic in Luis Valdez’s Play ‘Zoot Suit’”
• Herrera & McMahon, "¡Oye, Oye!: A Manifesto for Listening to Latinx Theater" (sent via email)
• post RR#9 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 3/24

RR#8: "Equus" & “Ritual and Judgment in Shaffer’s 'Equus'”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
2. Include your full name at the end of your comments. Unnamed comments will be deleted.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 8 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, March 5th

• Discuss Creative Project
• Discuss Proposal & Final Conference Paper/One-Act Play
• Michael McCormick:
• Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
• Chapman, “Staging Gendered Radicalism at the Height of the US Cold War: A Raisin in the Sun and Lorraine Hansberry’s Vision of Freedom”
• Homework
• Have a safe and restful Spring Break!
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday, 3/19:
• Shaffer, Equus
• Mustazza, “A Jealous God: Ritual and Judgment in Shaffer’s Equus”
• post RR#8 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday, 3/17

RR#7: "A Raisin in the Sun" & “Lorraine Hansberry’s Vision of Freedom”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 7 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, February 26th

• Discuss Midterm
• Mirella Martinez:
• Miller, Death of a Salesman
• Jacobsen, “Family Dreams in Death of a Salesman”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
• Chapman, “Staging Gendered Radicalism at the Height of the US Cold War: A Raisin in the Sun and Lorraine Hansberry’s Vision of Freedom”
• post RR#7 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#6: "Death of a Salesman" & “Family Dreams in 'Death of a Salesman'”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 6 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, February 18th

• Christian Martinez:
• Williams, The Glass Menagerie
• Kusovac & Pralas, “Repetition as Trapped Emotion in Williams’ The Glass Menagerie”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Miller, Death of a Salesman
• Jacobsen, “Family Dreams in Death of a Salesman”
• post RR#6 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#5: "The Glass Menagerie" & “Repetition as Trapped Emotion”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 5 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, February 12th

• PJ Hernandez:
• Glaspell, Trifles
• Holstein, “Silent Justice in a Different Key: Glaspell’s Trifles”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Williams, The Glass Menagerie
• Kusovac & Pralas, “Repetition as Trapped Emotion in Williams’ The Glass Menagerie”
• post RR#5 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#4: "Trifles" & “Silent Justice in a Different Key”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 4 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, February 5th

• Linda Gonzalez:
• Ibsen, A Doll’s House
• Plung, “The Character Architecture of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Glaspell, Trifles
• Holstein, “Silent Justice in a Different Key: Glaspell’s Trifles”
• post RR#4 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#3: "A Doll’s House" & “The Character Architecture of Ibsen’s 'A Doll’s House'”

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 3 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, January 29th

• Joaquin Castillo:
• Shakespeare, Hamlet
• Johnson, “Hamlet: Voice, Music, Sound”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Ibsen, A Doll’s House
• Plung, “The Character Architecture of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House”
• post RR#3 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#2: "Hamlet" & "Hamlet: Voice, Music, Sound"

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1. Reading responses must be AT LEAST 250 words.
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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 2 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, January 22nd

• Pedro Cano:
• Introduction and Conclusion
• Sophocles, Antigone
• Owoeye, “Gender Pride as Tragic Flaw in Sophocles’ Antigone”
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Shakespeare, Hamlet
• Johnson, “Hamlet: Voice, Music, Sound”
• post RR#2 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

RR#1: Introduction, Conclusion, "Antigone," and "Gender Pride as Tragic Flaw"

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4. Reading responses are due by midnight on Sundays, no exception.

Week 1 Agenda [Tentative]

Tuesday, January 15th

• Syllabus, Introductions, & Overview of Dramatic Literature, Theatre, and Playwriting
• Homework
• print/read/bring the following for discussion next Tuesday:
• Introduction and Conclusion (xi-lvi)
• Sophocles, Antigone
• Owoeye, “Gender Pride as Tragic Flaw in Sophocles’ Antigone” (available under READINGS)
• post RR#1 on our course blog by midnight on Sunday

Welcome to ENGL 6340!

Lorraine Hansberry

The purpose of this blog is to provide an online space where all of our class materials will be available. 

On the blog itself, I will post:

• Weekly agendas
• Reading Responses and other Homework

On the right side of our blog you will find:

• My contact information
• Our course syllabus
• Discussion Leader schedule
• Blog Archive

At the top of our blog, you will find:

• Readings & Supplementals
• Includes course readings and supplemental web links
• Your Creative Project
• Includes guidelines on your creative project.
• Your Final Project
• Includes guidelines for your final project.

Essentially, if you need information about this course, you need only visit this blog and it's likely you'll find your answers. So, browse around and get to know the blog well.

I'm looking forward to a fun and meaningful semester!

Dr. Moreira