Alfonso Ceballos Muñoz
Rafael Vélez Núñez

1. Dar a conocer la evolución del teatro inglés a lo largo de la historia,
desde la Edad Media  hasta el siglo XXI.
2. Contextualizar e historizar el teatro en relación a otros discursos
contemporáneos.
3. Conocer el lenguaje del teatro y su puesta en escena.
4. Familiarizarse con la terminología adecuada para el comentario de textos y
representaciones dramáticas.

1.  PERFORMANCE PRACTICES IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA
2.  MASQUING POLITICS: A STUDY OF BEN JONSON'S The Masque of Blackness
3.  DRAMA BESIEGED: WILLIAM DAVENANT AND THE SIEGE OF RHODES
4. RESTORATION DRAMA: THOMAS D'URFEY THE COMICAL HISTORY OF DON QUIXOTE
5.  DEFINING BRITISH MODERN DRAMA
6.  THE INFLUENCE OF SHAW
7.  SOCIAL THEMES AND REALISM: RATTIGAN AND OSBORNE.
8.  THE COMIC TRADITION AND INNOVATION (1): NOËL COWARD AND JOE ORTON
9.  THE COMIC TRADITION AND INNOVATION (2): TOM STOPPARD.
10.  THE ABSURD DRAMA IN ENGLAND: SAMUEL BECKETT.


LECTURAS OBLIGATORIAS (Fuentes Primarias).

Ben Jonson's "The Masque of Blackness". Stephen Orgel Ben Jonson: The Complete
Masques. New Haven: Yale University Press.1969.

D'Urfey, Thomas: The COmical history of Don Quixote.
"Waiting for Godot", de Samuel Beckett.

LECTURAS OBLIGATORIAS (Fuentes Secundarias)


Styan, J.L. 1996: "The Elizabethan Theatre", The English Stage: A History of
Drama and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 88-117.
Twycross, Meg 1994: "The Theatricality of English Medieval Plays" (excerpts).
Richard Beadle ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 37-84.
Lindley, David ed. 1984: The Court Masque. Manchester: Manchester University
Press. (excerpts).
Orgel, Stephen 1991: The Illusion of Power. Political Theater in English
Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Wiseman, Susan: "Introduction: how the drama disappeared". Drama and Politics
in the English Civil War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1998. 1-18.
Langhans, Edwar: "The theatre". Deborah P. Fisk ed. The Cambridge Companion to
English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. 1-18.

Visionado de película Salome, basada en Salmoe de Oscar Wilde

Clases Teóricas (30 horas): En estas clases se ofrecerá una visión
retrospectiva de la evolución de la historia dramática inglesa. Se hará
hincapié en el estudio de las transformaciones históricas y culturales del
teatro, de manera que se pueda ofrecer una visión continua de este género,
intentando no instaurar el canon como única base, y dando cabida a autores y
géneros considerados menores.

Clases Prácticas (30 horas): Estas clases se centrarán en el estudio y
realización de análisis de fragmentos de obras. También se intentará fomentar
las representaciones en clase.

Presentación de 4 comentarios de fragmetnos teatrales (90%  nota final)
Examen final: breve examen donde se evaluarán conocimientos teóricos de la
asignatura no presentes en los comentarios. (10%)

Performance practices in English Renaissance Drama.

Campbell, L.B. 1923. Scenes and Machines on the English Stage during the
Renaissance: A Classical Revival. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Holme, B. 1988. Princely Feasts and Festivals. Five Centuries of Pageantry and
Spectacle. London: Thames and Hudson.
Orrell, J. 1985. The Theatres of Inigo Jones and John Webb.Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
---- 1988. The Human Stage: English Theatre Design, 1567-1640. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.
Portillo, R. & Casado, J. 1986. Diccionario inglés-español español-inglés de
terminología teatral. Madrid: Ediciones Fundamentos.
Sabbatini, N. 1977 (1638). Pratique pour Fabriquer Scenes et Machines de
Theatre. Ed. Facsimilar: Neuchâtel: Paul Attinger.
Southern, R. 1951. Changeable Scenery: Its Origin and Development in the
British Theatre. London: Faber & Faber.



Masquing politics: A Study of Ben Jonson's Oberon

Butler, M. 1993. Reform or Reverence? The Politics of the Caroline Masque' en
Mulryne. Eds. J.R. & M. Shewring. 1993. 118-56.
Chibnall, J. 1984. "To that Secure Fix'd State": The Function of the Caroline
Masque Form.  Ed. D. Lindley. 1984. 78-93.
Cunningham, D. 1963. The Jonsonian Masque as a Literary Form. Ed. J. Barish.
160-174.
Finkelstein, R. 1987. Ben Jonson on Spectacle. Comparative Drama. Summer,
21:2, 103 14.
Goldberg, J. 1983. James I and the Politics of Literature. Baltimore and
London: The John Hopkins University Press.
Lindley, D. ed.1984a. The Court Masque. Manchester: Manchester University
Press.
---- ed.1995. Court Masques: Jacobean and Caroline Entertainments 1605-1640.
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Marcus, L.S. 1978. Present Occasions and the Shaping of Ben Jonson's Masques.
English Literary History 45. 201-25.
---- 1981. Masquing Occasions and Masque Structure. Research Opportunities in
Renaissance Drama 24. 7-17.
Meagher, J.C. 1969. Method and Meaning in Jonson's Masques. Notre Dame:
University of Notre Dame Press.
Norbrook, D. 1984. The Reformation of the Masque. Ed. D. Lindley. 1984a. 94-
110.
Orgel, S. 1967. The Jonsonian Masque. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press.
----- 1991. The Illusion of Power. Political Theater in English Renaissance.
Berkeley: University of California Press.
Parry, G. 1993. The Politics of the Jacobine Masque. Ed. J.R. Mulryne & M.
Shewring. 1993. 87-117.
Strong, R. 1986. Henry Prince of Wales and England's Lost Renaissance. London:
Thames & Hudson.
Strout, N. 1987. Jonson's Jacobean Masques and the Moral Imagination. Studies
in English Literature, 1500 1900, 27:2. 233 247.
Talbert, E.W. 1946. The Interpretation of Jonson's Courtly Spectacles. PMLA,
61. 454-73.

Drama besieged: William Davenant and The Siege of Rhodes

Bordinat, Philip 1976: "William Davenant and the Caroline Masque" The Bulletin
of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers 3:2. 1-18
Bordinat, Philip& Sophia Blaydes: Sir William Davenant. Boston: Twayne, 1981.
Davenant, William 1656: The Siege of Rhodes. London.
Dent, E.J., 1928. The Foundations of English Opera. Cambridge: Cambridge at
the University Press.
Hedback, Ann-Mari 1973: Sir William Davenant,  The Siege of Rhodes: A Critical
Edition. Uppsala : Almqvist & Wiksell.
Jacob, James 1991: "Opera and Obedience: Thomas Hobbes and A Proposition for
Advancement of Moralitie by Sir William Davenant".  The Seventeenth-Century
6:2. 205-50
Keith, W.G., 1914. “The Designs for the First Movable Scenery on the English
Public Stage”. The Burlington Magazine, Apil-May, 29-98.
Randall, Dale B.J. 1995: Winter Fruit. English Drama 1642-1660. Lexington: The
University Press of Kentucky.
Wiseman, Susan 1998: Drama and Politics in the English Civil War. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press.

Rstoration Drama

Buelow, G.J. 1980. "Rhetoric and Music". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and
Musicians. Ed. G. Sadie. Vol. 15, 793-803.
Charlton, David 1983: "King Arthur: Dramatick Opera". Music and Letters 64:3-
4. 183-192
Haun, E., 1971. But Hark! More Harmony: The Libretti of Restoration Opera in
English. Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University Press.
Moore, Robert E. 1961. Henry Purcell and the Restoration Theatre. Wesport:
Greenwood Press.
Deborah P. Fisk ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000.
Price, Curtis A. 1979. Music in the Restoration Theatre. Michigan: Ann Arbor.
-------. 1984. Henry Purcell and the London Stage. Cambridge: C.U.P.


The Twentieth Century
Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Buse, peter. Drama + Theory. Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama.
Manchester University Press, 2001.
Barken, Clive. British Theatre Between the Wars. 1918-1939. Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Pickering, Kenneth. Key Concepts in Drama and Performance. Palgrave, 2005.
Rabey, David Ryan. English Drama since 1940. Pearson Longman, 2003.
Clothia, Jean. English Drama of the Early Modern Period 1890-1940. Longman
Publishing Group 1996.
Gilleman, Luc M.  John Osborne : Vituperative Artist (Studies in Modern Drama,
Volume 13). Routledge,  2001.
Dennison D. Patricia. John Osborne : A Casebook (Casebooks on Modern
Dramatists). Garland Publishing,1997.
Hunter, Jim. Tom Stoppard : A Faber Critical Guide: Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers, Travesties, Arcadia (Faber Critical Guides).
Faber & Faber, 2000.
Kelly, Katherine E. The Cambridge Companion to Tom Stoppard. Cambridge
University Press, 2001.
Fleming, John. Stoppard's Theatre: Finding Order Amid Chaos (Literary
Modernism Series). University of Texas Press, 2003.
Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Penguin Classics, 1992.
Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. Grove Press, 1991.