110年第2學期-5090 大衛．海爾及其戲劇作品 課程資訊

評分方式

評分項目	配分比例	說明
Class Participation	40	Attendance; Discussion; Assignments
Mid-term Report	30	Short Essay
Final Report	30	Term Paper

教育目標

By the end of the course, students should have achieved the following objectives: 1) To study and fully explore David Hare’s major works. 2) To contextualize Hare’s life, career, and dramatic work. 3) To locate Hare’s significance as a contemporary playwright in the British cultural landscap

課程概述

English playwright David Hare (1947~) has been greatly admired in the English-speaking world. An idealist but often disillusioned at the same time, Hare poses self-contradictory views in his plays regarding now and past, honour and humiliation, utopia and dystopia, passion and indifference, as well as love and hatred. His sheer honesty in portraying human struggles over these elusive concepts is best embodied in his personal search for a clearer self, political, and cultural identity for himself, and also for the British, with his multiple roles as a playwright, a director, an actor, and an explorer of political activism. This course aims to investigate Hare’s artistic, political, and cultural views through the exploration of his stage and screen plays. Texts of the selected plays will be studied and cross-examined to illustrate parallel motifs, symbols, and themes, as well as to define Hare’s writing styles and purposes.

基本資料

選修課，學分數：0-3
上課時間：三/2,3,4[LAN212-2]
修課班級：外文學碩1,2
修課年級：年級以上
選課備註：英美文學組

參考書目

Course Materials:

1. The Cambridge Companion to David Hare by Richard Boon (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2007
2. British Theatre Since the War by Dominic Shellard, Yale University Press, 1999
3. Acting Up: A Diary by David Hare, London: Faber and Faber, 1999


4. Plays Selected: Published by Faber and Faber

Plenty
Skylight
Amy’s View
Via Dolorosa
The Power of Yes
The Moderate Soprano


5. Movies Selected:

The Hours
The Reader
Beat the Devil