Courses:

Course Info

• Course Number / Code:
• 21M.714 (Spring 2005) 
• Course Title:
• Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War 
• Course Level:
• Undergraduate 
• Offered by :
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  Massachusetts, United States  
• Department:
• Literature 
• Course Instructor(s):
• Prof. Diana Henderson
  Prof. Janet Sonenberg 
• Course Introduction:
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  21L.703 / 21M.714 Studies in Drama: Theater and Science in a Time of War
  
  
  
  

  Spring 2005

  
  
  

  
  
  

  Course Highlights

  
  
  

  This course features an extensive readings list and sample student projects.

  
  
  

  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.