Modern Drama - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423-C
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

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

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

  • Identify the genres, conventions and experimentation associated with English drama
  • Evaluate the writers’ use of language as a creative resource to explore the entire range of human experience through the literary form of drama
  • Appraise the significance of different schools of thought in modern drama
  • Develop a knowledge of the historical, socio-political, and religious trends in the selected plays

 

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Harold Pinter

The Birthday Party

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Edward Bond

Lear

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Caryl Churchill

Top Girls

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Girish Karnad

Nagamandala

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. Random House, 2004.

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

Iyengar, K.R.S.  Indian Writing in English. Sterling, 1984.

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

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022