2020年度

＜概要/Course Content Summary＞

In the second semester, we'll complete the module on British children's theatre, looking at more recent examples in the different genres of opera, musical, and Christmas nativity play. We'll then go on to the final module, British women's writers. We'll study a series of important British women writers from the beginnings of professional women's writing in the late 1600s to Jane Austen (1775-1817) and her Pride and Prejudice (1813)，recently voted the greatest romantic novel of all time. Despite their educational and social disadvantages，women attempted every kind of writing that men did. This class will concentrate on novels and plays，though one week will be devoted to Mary Collier's pioneering poem，The Woman's Labour (1739). You'll learn about the difficulties and prejudices that women writers faced，and how they triumphantly overcame them. Along the way you'll learn a great deal about the development of modern English literature.

＜到達目標/Goals,Aims＞

This is a four-skills class: you will be doing a lot of reading， listening， and discussing， and in conclusion you will write a report on one of the works you have studied. You should gain a good knowledge of the variety of children's theatre, of women's place in society in the past， and the sort of books that women wanted to write. You should also develop the critical skills to think more seriously about issues connected with children's entertainment and women's lives in the world today.

＜授業計画/Schedule＞

A typical class consists of the teacher giving short lectures and the students having small group discussions.

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