I have 13 week/semester (3 hours); must limit myself to several topics/issues/subjects -- time, space, death, love, character, plot... How the theme of death is expressed through character/plot using time and space concepts? Only with such methodology any comparative approach is possible. For example, Chekhov's "3 Sisters": Baron's death (how time or/and space do work?)
Usually, "Time and Space in Chekhov's drama" -- but Chekhov's main focus are characters (character as plot, character as idea). Second, "time" can't be expressed only through chronotope, only through "subjective" time and space we can have ideas about the values.
How to celect the right topics, issues, subjects?
How to connect them?
The topics are like chapters in this big story, which we call history.
From Shakespeare to Chekhov to Beckett: what is the story? Hopes for humanism, disillusion and dispeare? Trace the theme "To be or not to be" -- here are the four centuries of our evolution. And -- what is next? Theatre is always open to the future -- what are the signs? 3rd millenium, 21 century.
I better do it in reversed order, archiologically; from today back to Checkhov to Shakespeare. What are our sense of the theme "To be or not to be"? Should the current history be included as a start of the thought? Suicide as an universal phenomena.
Where is the center in all this discourse?
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