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Modern Drama - II
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The students will: CO 131. Identify the genres, conventions and experimentation associated with English drama CO 132. Evaluate the writers’ use of language as a creative resource to explore the entire range of human experience through the literary form of drama CO 133. Appraise the significance of different schools of thought in modern drama CO 134. Develop a knowledge of the historical, socio-political, and religious trends in the selected plays CO 135. Critically appreciate the aesthetic qualities of texts by the standards of their times and places
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Approach in teaching: Discussion, Demonstration via Presentation Learning activities for the students: Report-writing, Seminar-presentation |
Report-writing, Presentation, Viva-Voce |
Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party
Edward Bond
Lear
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Caryl Churchill
Top Girls
Girish Karnad
Nagamandala
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.
e-resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB2fLkVPtMs. Contemporary Literature by Dr. Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras. NPTEL http://nptel.iitm.ac.in
Journals:
Modern Drama by University of Toronto Press