This course is meant as discussions that should be friendly to students of drama interested in dramatic texts. However, the lectures draw upon scholarship and previous interpretations and I try to make my arguments persuasive with evidence from the plays themselves. Theater and Drama have generated a rapidly and ever expanding international literature; of documentation, fiercely competing movements and ideologies, technical innovations and experimentation beyond the scope of this course but available to the diligent reader from many resources.

The objectives of this course are: 1. Students expand their knowledge on different kind of theatres. History and evolution 2. To approach students with dramatic texts because the pieces are “ text-oriented’. 3. To make students understand the impact drama has had through the ages, with the emphasis on the cultural and ideological circumstances out of which drama arises. 4. Students also come to know how drama carries a ‘Supertext’ of cultural implication that a text draws upon, that illuminates it and to which it contributes in turn.