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.
Harold Pinter
The Birthday Party
Edward Bond
Lear
Tom Stoppard
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Caryl Churchill Top Girls
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Girish Karnad
Nagamandala
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
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.