Modern Drama - II (1960-1990)

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

     

     

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. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.
  • Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Random House, 2004. Print.
  • Iyengar, K.R.S. Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Sterling, 1984. Print.
  • Kitchin, Lawrence. Mid - Century Drama. New York: Faber Publisher, 1962. Print.

                                

 

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020