Plats på scen: samtida dramatik och scenkonst i Sverige, 7.5 högskolepoäng

(SW means that the text will be available on the StudyWeb.)

Plays:

Boëthius, Gunilla. The Woman Who Married a Turkey (available as pdf from the teacher).

Ibsen, Henrik, A Doll House (any edition, pref translation by Michael Meyer)

Ibsen, Henrik, The Wild Duck (any edition, pref translation by Michael Meyer)

Leffler, Ann-Charlotte. True Women (on SW)

Norén, Lars. Night is Mother of the Day (available as pdf from the teacher).

Osten, Suzanne & Lysander, Per. Medea’s Children (on SW)

Strindberg, August. The Father (any edition)

Tidholm, Thomas. Tra-la-la-la (available as pdf from the teacher)

Tidholm, Thomas. Make Me Sister! (available as pdf from the teacher) 

Plays for your group presentations will be given to you in class.

Carlson, Marvin, “Semiotics and Its Heritage”, i Reinelt och Roach, eds., Critical Theory and Performance, University Press, Michigan, 2007, p. 13-25.

Elam, Keir, The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama, Routledge London & NY latest ed., 2002. (selected pages, SW)

Helander, Karin, “Theatre for Young Audiences – AND for Adults”, Western European Stages: Theatre in Sweden, Vol 12, 2000, p 21-25. (SW)

Johansson, Birgitta, ”Balancing on the Edge of Indecency”, Nordic Theatre Studies, 22: 46- 57, 2010. (SW)

Key, Ellen, The Century of Childhood, (digital resource).

Neuhauser, Charlott, ”New Swedish Plays. A New Genre?” i Guna Zeltina och Sanita Reinsone, eds., Text in Contemporary Theatre, The Baltics within the World Experience, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle 2013 (digital resource)

News from Swedish Theatre (e-resource), focus: Young audiences (SW)

Ring, Lars, ”Lars Norén and the Swedish Theatre”, 2000 (digital resource)

Rosefelt, Paul, The Absent Father in Modern Drama, 1995 (SH library)

Svachova, Romana, ”The Childish Unga Klara: Contemporary Swedish Children’s Theatre and Its Experimental Aesthetics”, Brünner Beiträge zur Germanistik und Nordistik 30/ 2016 / (electronic resource)

Sörenson, Margareta, ”Swedish Drama” in Magnus Florin ed., Literature in Sweden, Svenska Institutet, 1997. (SW)

Wirmark, Margaretha, ”Sweden” i Ralph Yarrow, ed., European Theater 1960-1990, Crosscultural Perspectives, London: Routledge, 2015. (SW)

Swedish state cultural policy: objectives, measures, and results : a report, Libergraf 1990. (digital resource) 

Supplementary reading:

Osten, Suzanne. The Girl, the Mother and the Rubbish (pdf from the teacher)

Kehlily, Mary Jane, ed., Understanding Childhood: a cross-disciplinary approach, The Policy Press, 2nd ed 2013. (SH library)

Kelly, Katherine, ed., Drama by Women 1880’s-1930’s, Routledge, London, 1996. (SH library)

Neuhauser, Charlott, ”The Intoxication of Insight: Notes on Lars Norén”, Theatre, Fall/Winter 22:1, 1990/91, s. 89-92 (digital resource)

Prout, Alan. The Future of Childhood, Taylor & Francis, 2004, (SH, digital resource)

Wilkinson, Lynn R. Anne Charlotte Leffler and Modernist Drama, Welsh Academic Press, 2011, pp. 147-164. (SH library)