Modern Drama - II (1960-1990)

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

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative playwrights and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Harold Pinter

The Birthday Party

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Edward Bond

Lea

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Tom Stoppard

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Caryl Churchill

Top Girls

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018