Modern Drama - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423-C
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Get acquainted with the genre of Modern drama through a selection of representative dramatists and their individual style
  • Understand the relationship between aesthetic experimentation and social change in order to examine and appreciate Modern Drama with regard to contemporary theatre

Course Learning Outcomes

The students will be able to:

  • Get an insight into the genres, conventions and experimentation associated with English drama, and a knowledge of the historical, socio-political, and religious trends in the selected plays
  • Gain an understanding of the writers’ use of language as a creative resource to explore the entire range of human experience through the literary form of drama 
12.00
Unit I: 
Harold Pinter

The Birthday Party

12.00
Unit II: 
Edward Bond

Lear

12.00
Unit III: 
Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

12.00
Unit IV: 
Caryl Churchill

Top Girls

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Girish Karnad

Nagamandala

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Christopher Innes. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. CUP, 2002.
  • Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. Random House, 2004.
  • Iyengar, K.R.S. Indian Writing in English. Sterling, 1984.
  • Kitchin, Lawrence. Mid - Century Drama. Faber, 1962.

                                

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021