Modern Drama - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 423 – C
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To acquaint the students further with the genre of modern drama through a selection of representative dramatists and their individual style
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: 
  • Christopher Innes. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. CUP, 2002.
  • Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. Random House, 2004.
  • Iyengar, K.R.S. Indian Writing in English. Sterling, 1984.
  • Kitchin, Lawrence. Mid - Century Drama. Faber, 1962.

                               

Academic Year: 
2016-2017