Bu ders Antik Yunan tragdeyasından başlayıp günümüz İngiliz tiyatrosuna kadar gelerek değişen tiyatro ve kuram anlayışını incelemeyi amaçlar.

Bu ders Tragedyanın doğuşundan başlayarak Antik Yunan tragedyasına, İngiliz tiyatrosu döneml, akım ve kuramlarına odaklanır.

Düz anlatım, soru-cevap, sınıf içi tartışma, sunum

Sophocles, Oedipus the King; Shakespeare, Hamlet Beckett, Endgame; Ridley, Leaves of Glass; Kane, Blasted; Eccleshare, Pastoral; Franzmann, Bodies; Crouch, The Author. Theory reading list (includes but not limited to the following titles): Antonin Artaud, The Theatre and Its Double Martin Esslin, The Theatre of the Absurd Howard Barker, Arguments for a Theatre Aleks Sierz, In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today Aleks Sierz, Rewriting the Nation: British Theatre Today Hans-Thies Lehmann, Postdramatic Theatre Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll, Steve Giles, Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance Cathy Caruth, The Unclaimed Experience Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory Christina Wald, Hysteria, Trauma and Melancholia: Performative Maladies in Contemporary Anglophone Drama Robert T. Tally Jr., Spatiality Robert T. Tally Jr., Geocritical Explorations Space, Place, and Mapping in Literary and Cultural Studies Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology Greg Garrard, Ecocriticism Patricia Maccormack, Posthuman Ethics: Embodiment and Cultural Theory Mahala Yates Stripling, Bioethics and Medical Issues in Literature