CURS LIMBI STRAINE: ISTORIA LITERATURII ENGLEZE

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INTRODUCERE
The course addresses the first year full-time and distance education undergraduates majoring in English during the first semester. The course covers the first centuries of English drama. It starts with the Middle Ages and the
religious drama that first flourished under the patronage of the Catholic Church and it goes down to the post-Renaissance age of the civil war that led to the closing down of the London theatres in 1642.



The course is not necessarily history-oriented, which means that the students will not be stifled with historical data. On the contrary, the course, as the students will come to learn in due time, is basically text-oriented. This means that the undergraduates are supposed to read a corpus of works belonging to the dramatic genres as well as some critical works and to get familiar with the specific, distinctive features of drama as a genre so different from, say, the epic and the lyrical genre.

The discussion of early English theatre cannot circumvent, or neglect, the historical sources of drama, the Greek and Latin dramatic theories and types of spectacle. Students in drama should not ignore Aristotle’s definition of tragedy, the main features of the classical Greek tragedy, the definition of catharsis, hybris, hamartia, protagonist, antagonist, and chorus, as well as the main features of Greek and Latin comedy. Speaking about comedy as a dramatic subgenre, terms like qui pro quo, imbroglio, cross-dressing are instrumental in describing and analyzing a text.