English 3336 Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama and Theatre
Prompt # 31
16 November 2012

Reading The Comical Revenge; or, Love in a Tub

Accessing the text

I've scanned in the text from Michael Cordner's edition. It's accessible here. The collection it's in will be available in the library by, I'd expect, Friday afternoon, if you'd prefer a hard copy. Or, if you like, you can stop by my office and I can run the master copy I've made through the copier for you.

Reading and keeping a journal

I would suggest aiming for a written response, even if only a sentence, for every double page spread. You can jot down questions (that's always good), or say what you expect next, or reflect on the kind of play it seems to be, or whatever -- remember that your audience is the other five people reading the play.

I'd keep the journal as a file, so you can go back and continue without bothering with Moodle's editing issues. Since a play is performed in a couple of hours or so, it seems to me it should be readable -- even aloud -- in under three hours. Budget that amount of time. But, whatever you have, and however far you've read, you should post your journal before Tuesday morning, when everybody else will be reading them.

Post it as a "New discussion topic" in the Forum below the link to the text.

On Tuesday, or before class on Wednesday, respond on the Forum to at least a couple of specific points raised by others (in other words, read through the journals).

Class next Wednesday

We'll start at 9:00. Be ready to talk about the patterns of response in the journals.


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