This course brings together the two great 20th-century English-language
playwrights of ideas, both of whom relieved their intellectual agendas with a scintillating wit and an acute sense of human comedy.
I plan to introduce each play and its context before opening it up to
discussion. Participants are asked to read each play ahead of the day
assigned to it.


COURSE FORMAT
This is an interactive online seminar course that meets weekly over 8 weeks. Live online sessions will use the zoom platform. Weekly reading or other forms of materials may be assigned. Weekly sessions will be recorded and available for registered participants to access throughout the course.
There are no papers or grades. This course does not offer any credits or certificates. This course is intended for learning for the love of learning.

COURSE MATERIALS
This course requires participants to purchase/rent reading materials.

George Bernard Shaw, The Philanderer; Getting Married

Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island; Pygmalion

Shaw, Major Barbara; Misalliance

Tom Stoppard, Night and Day; Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth

Stoppard, Arcadia; Indian Ink

Stoppard, Rock ’n’ Roll; The Hard Problem

Registrants will receive access to the course website about two weeks before the course starts.

COURSE CANCELLATION POLICY
Registrants can cancel and receive a full refund up to September 15. After September 15, there will be no refunds issued.
Yale Alumni College courses are subject to schedule changes as well as cancellations. If Yale Alumni College must cancel any course prior to its start due to low enrollment, you will be notified of this by the cancellation date. Upon cancellation of a course, registrants may transfer their registration to another available course or have the registration fee fully refunded.

In the event of a disruption to the original course schedule, including but not limited to; Professor absence, hazardous weather conditions, or local travel restrictions, Yale Alumni College will do its best to reschedule the missed class for the week immediately following the original end date at the same course time and day.
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