| Weeks | Topics |
| 1 |
Pierre de Marivaux
One of Marivaux's plays: LeJeu de l'Amour et du Hasard (The Game of Love and Chance)
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| 2 |
Voltaire and tragedy in the eighteenth century.
One of Voltaire's plays: Zaïre
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| 3 |
Denis Diderot and the bourgeois drama.
The Diderot's play called "Le fils natürel"
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| 4 |
The french theatre in 19th century. Victor Hogo's "The preface of Cromwell" and the theory of romantic drama
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| 5 |
Victor Hugo's play called Hernani
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| 6 |
The Stendhal's theatre theory ( Racine and Shakespeare)
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| 7 |
Boulevard theater. Melodrama. Vaudeville
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| 8 |
One of Musset's plays: "On ne badine pas avec l'amour"
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| 9 |
Midterm.
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| 10 |
Towards a surreal and absurd theater: Alfred Jarry.
The Jarry's play called " Ubu Roi"
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| 11 |
The french theatre in the beginning of 20th century.
Tre surreal theatre
Guillaume Apollinaire's play called "les mamelles de Tirésias"
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| 12 |
The existentialist theatre.
The Jean Paul Sartre's play called "Huis-Clos"
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| 13 |
The absurd theatre.
Albert Camus and his play called "Caligula"
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| 14 |
Beckett's play called Waiting for Godot
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