Modern Drama - II

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

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

 
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: 

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.

 

Journals: 

Modern Drama by University of Toronto Press

 

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

 
Academic Year: 
2023-2024