Modern Drama - I

Paper Code: 
24ENG323(C)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to recognise the period of theatrical experimentation in drama under the broad perspective of Modernism and examine the historical condition of cultural dislocation, rising global consciousness and emerging conflicts as depicted by the playwrights.

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 

G. B. Shaw

Major Barbara

 

12.00
Unit II: 

T. S. Eliot

Family Reunion

 

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. 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: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO85. Evaluate drama through the lens of avant-garde writing and modernism 

CO86. Explore the historical developments in dramatic literature with reference to social contexts and theoretical frameworks

CO87. Analyse the plays as texts of performance

CO88. Appraise the significance of different schools of thought in modern drama

CO89. Develop an understanding of aesthetic expressions and investigate the reflection of many world cultures in drama

CO90.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction