Modern Drama - II

Paper Code: 
24ENG423(C)
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to recognise the genre of modern drama through a selection of representative dramatists and their individual style and compare and contrast the relationship between aesthetic experimentation and social change.

 

Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO121.  Identify the genres, conventions and experimentation associated with English drama

CO122. Evaluate the writers’ use of language as a creative resource to explore the entire range of human experience through the literary form of drama

CO123. Appraise the significance of different schools of thought in modern drama

CO124. Develop a knowledge of the historical, socio-political, and religious trends in the selected plays

CO125. Examine the literary qualities of the prescribed texts vis-a-vis the dramatic form

CO126. Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.

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: 
2024-2025