If I were to do a freshman seminar like that, we’d read plays we aren’t reading in other classes, and do dramatic readings. We’d learn to write abstracts, summaries, and annotated bibliographies; we’d learn how to seriously look things up in the library. I’ll have to keep working on this.
The classic play to read, in this course, would be the Casa de Bernarda Alba. We could contrast it with Da. Rosita la soltera. I’m interested in Mariana Pineda, and there are also the Zapatera prodigiosa and the Amores de D. Perimplín con Belisa en su jardín. I’m also interested in the Maleficio de la mariposa, even, and I’m very interested in the puppet theatre: Los títeres de cachiporra, the Retablillo de D. Cristóbal. And then, for odder things I also don’t teach a great deal, we could look at the Comedia sin título and El sueño de la vida. Así que pasen cinco años I am saving for my other class.
But I was thinking about this as a course about Lorca and flamenco and dance, so there is that to think about, too.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 