Modern Drama - I

Paper Code: 
ENG 323-C
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • Recognise the period of theatrical experimentation in drama under the broad perspective of Modernism
  • Examine the historical condition of cultural dislocation, rising global consciousness and emerging conflicts as depicted by the playwrights

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

  • Evaluate drama through the lens of avant-garde writing and modernism 
  • Recognise the historical developments in dramatic literature with reference to social contexts and theoretical frameworks
  • Critically analysis of the plays as texts of performance
  • Appraise the significance of different schools of thought in modern drama

 

10.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

G. B. Shaw

Major Barbara

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

T. S. Eliot

Family Reunion

 

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Arnold Wesker

I’m Talking About Jerusalem

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Terence Rattigan

The Deep Blue Sea

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings

 

Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. Random House,1961.

Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. CUP,  2002.

Kitchin, Lawrence. Mid-Century Drama.Faber,1962.

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and 19th Century Theatre. Princeton University Press, 1963.

Rampal, Dushyant Kumar. Poetic Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot. Atlantic Publishers, 1996.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022