Riotous Performance: Drama, Disruption and Protest
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4222 | English | 4 | 20 | Spring UK |
- Code
- ENGL4222
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 20
- Semesters
- Spring UK
Summary
This module allows you to engage with a range of modern drama, all themed around the idea of riot.
This module explores the phenomenon of the riot, examining both how such a notion is defined and how it might relate to other kinds of western performance event. In particular, the module asks students to analyse the way that riots have both been triggered by, and represented in, an assortment of other performances, and students will be encouraged to compare and contrast material from a range of different chronological periods and across a range of different genres.
Although the module is largely focused upon dramatic texts, it will allow students the opportunity to consider an assortment of other performance events, as we analyse the drama of Synge and O’Casey, the ballet of Stravinsky and Nijinsky, and the performance poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson.
Target Students
Only available to on-site postgraduate students in the School of English.
Classes
- One 2-hour seminar each week for 11 weeks
Assessment
- 100% Coursework 1: One 4,000 word essay
Assessed by end of spring semester
Educational Aims
This module will provide students with:An introduction to a range of different western performances that have engaged with the idea of riot and protest, from the Ancient Greeks to the present day.An opportunity to use a range of different theoretical and historical ideas in order analyse, compare and contrast such performances.Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
- Shows knowledge of critical and theoretical approaches to western performance.
- Shows knowledge of the social, political, and historical contexts of selected riots, protests and performances.
Intellectual skills
- Displays an understanding of complex ideas, and relates them to specific problems or questions.
- Conducts research in a range of media, and uses that material with intelligence to support ideas and arguments.
Professional practical skills
- Shows ability to analyse performances from different historical periods and communicates findings effectively.
- Shows ability to place individual research alongside the work of previous scholars.
Transferable skills
- Works productively with others
- Communicates effectively in writing
- Communicates effectively by oral presentation
- Retrieves information from a range of written and electronic sources and present the results in a clear and accurate fashion