Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War

A print depicting the beheading of Charles I.

A contemporary German print depicting the beheading of Charles I in 1649. (Image taken from Wikipedia.)

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21L.703 / 21M.714

As Taught In

Spring 2005

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This course explores the creation (and creativity) of the modern scientific and cultural world through study of western Europe in the 17th century, the age of Descartes and Newton, Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Molière. The class compares period thinking to present-day debates about the scientific method, art, religion, and society. This team-taught, interdisciplinary subject draws on a wide range of literary, dramatic, historical, and scientific texts and images, and involves theatrical experimentation as well as reading, writing, researching and conversing.

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Diana Henderson, and Janet Sonenberg. 21L.703 Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War. Spring 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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