English 163: Dramatic Literature from the Greeks to Ibsen
Instructor: Robert Scanlan
Semester: Fall 2007
Blogger: Amanda Gann
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English 163: Dramatic Literature from the Greeks to Ibsen
This blog was inspired by English 163: Dramatic Literature from the Greeks to Ibsen by Robert Scanlan

Opening Moves
October 5th, 2007
Ours is a confusing era for live theater. We have grown up with living-room cartoons, films on VHS, and a hundred other devices that remove the public aspect from entertainment. We have also seen the advent of “reality” television, the web-cam, YouTube, all venues for watching real people you...
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Where to turn - Calamity and community
October 21st, 2007
Professor Robert Scanlan is, among other, more prestigious qualifications, an artist of the extended metaphor, and this enthralls the lucky forty who attend his bi-weekly show. In his own words, he has the “histrionic” or “theatrical” instinct, the capacity to make the hour of his speaking,...
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Dreams of the Greeks in Big Brass Bands
October 29th, 2007
I apologize for hurtling through the Oresteia in a single post. Look for annotations on the text to complement. Because the reverberations of the text in Western cultural history are too numerous to catalogue (although I will mention Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra – read it, revive it...
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