FYS 101C HISTORICAL DRAMA AND HAMILTON
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton continues to draw sell-out crowds. Its revisionist take on the American Revolution leads us to ask pressing questions about historical drama: What do we want from history? How does staging the past help us think about the present? In particular, how does history help us think about the legacies of oppression and power based on race, gender, sexuality, or class? Other historical plays, musicals, and operas studied may include Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 1; Pouton and Mantel's Wolf Hall; Walcott's Walker; Berlin and Field's Annie Get Your Gun; Weiss's Marat/Sade; Wertenbaker's Our Country's Good; Mozart's Don Carlos; Wilson's Ma Rainey's Black Bottom; and Stoppard's The Invention of Love.
Enrollment Limit
Enrollment limited to 16 students.
Attributes
MOIB, W