Modern Drama - I (1900-1960)

Paper Code: 
ENG 323 – C
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Get introduced to 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

     

10.00
Unit I: 

G. B. Shaw

Major Barbara

13.00
Unit II: 

T. S. Eliot

Murder in the Cathedral

12.00
Unit III: 

Arnold Wesker

I’m Talking About Jerusalem

12.00
Unit IV: 

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

12.00
Unit V: 

Terence Rattigan

The Deep Blue Sea

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Random House,1961.Print.
  • Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.
  • Kitchin, Lawrence. Mid-Century Drama. London: Faber,1962. Print.
  • Meisel, Martin. Shaw and 19th Century Theatre. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963. Print.
  • Rampal, Dushyant Kumar. Poetic Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot. New Delhi: Atlantic Publishers, 1996. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020