Modern Drama - I

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

The students will:

CO 81. Evaluate drama through the lens of avant-garde writing and modernism  

CO 82. Recognise the historical developments in dramatic literature with reference to social contexts and theoretical frameworks

CO 83. Critically analysis of the plays as texts of performance

CO 84. Appraise the significance of different schools of thought in modern drama

CO 85. Develop an understanding of aesthetic expressions and investigate the reflection of many world cultures in drama

 
10.00
Unit I: 

G. B. Shaw

Major Barbara

 
13.00
Unit II: 

T. S. Eliot

Family Reunion

 
13.00
Unit III: 

Arnold Wesker

I’m Talking About Jerusalem

 
12.00

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

 
12.00
Unit V: 

erence Rattigan

The Deep Blue Sea

 
Source Books: 

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. 

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_153VXu4p8 (Wesker)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEXyE4vmjFE (Beckett)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNw3UkgIjhU (Rattigan)

 

Journals:

Literature and Literary Theory

Tulsa Studies in Womens Literature

 
Academic Year: 
2023-2024