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On completion of this module students will be able to:
• Demonstrate indepth knowledge of the ways in which modern and contemporary Irish dramatists and theatre makers have:
1] represented and challenged state and other official configurations of Irish identity, nationhood, and the Irish nation.
2] represented and challenged the ways in which governments and their agents have mobilized Irishness and Irish nationhood as a tool for social control.
• Critically evaluate the ways in which Irish dramatists and theatre makers have utilized both traditional and radical strategies in terms of dramatic form, structure, playwriting, spectatorship, and dramaturgy.
• Theoretically elaborate various representations and the effects of colonialism, nationalism, and contemporary consumerism and socio-economic policies and practices, on Irish theatre.
• Articulate in scholarly terms a broad history of drama, theatre, performance in Ireland as well as that of Irish theatrical culture and the Irish theatre industry.
• Be capable of expressing critical judgement clearly and effectively while also being able to speak and write with clarity, precision, depth, and style; thereby developing and demonstrating critical thinking, theoretical knowledge, and a scholarly vocabulary appropriate to writing about Irish theatre and various related socio-political discourses which the playwrights on the course are both coming from and speaking to.
• Demonstrate sophisticated skills in detailed textual analysis and close reading while also acquiring a command of appropriate literary and dramatic terminology and be able to apply this to the analysis of the both dramas concerned and the socio-polical and cultural landscapes that inspired them.
• Become an advanced, graduate-level researcher in this field of study, able to locate appropriate sources of information and to evaluate and use this knowledge in their oral and written work; be able to effectively manage research time and work both independently and collaboratively.
The Irish New Wave: An Enduring Imperialism
The Irish Literary Theatre: Upstaging the Commercial Theatre
The Abbey Theatre: Unorthodox Orthodoxy
Dublin Drama League / Gate Theatre: Expressionism Irish-Style
The Theatre of the Troubles.
Women and Irish Drama: Recovering a Century of Authorship
Queering the Irish Stage
21st Century Theatre Companies: From Playwright to Collective
Essay Workshop
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 20 |
Project Supervision | 6 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 174 |
Total | 200 |
BA Degree in Humanities
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: Students will develop their own essay topic in close consultation with one of the module lecturers. Several consultation sessions, both face-to-face and online are facilitated. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | Yes | 100 |
Remediation Type | Remediation Timing |
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In-Module Resit | Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
Feedback is provided throughout the course of the module, both pre- and post-assessment. Students can arrange to have, at mutually convenient times, a consultation with the relevant module lecturer at any point during the semester. Formative feedback is also provided in a more general, collective manner during seminars
Name | Role |
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Assoc Professor Lucy Collins | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor P.J. Mathews | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |