Modern European Drama

Paper Code: 
24CENG411
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to recognise the period of theatrical experimentation in drama from the broad perspective of Modernism and examine the historical condition of cultural dislocation, rising global consciousness and emerging conflicts, as depicted by the playwrights.

 

18.00
Unit I: 

Henrik Ibsen

Ghosts

18.00
Unit II: 

Bertolt Brecht

The Good Woman of Szechuan

18.00
Unit III: 

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

18.00
Unit IV: 

Eugene Ionesco

Rhinoceros

18.00
Unit V: 

Harold Pinter

The Homecoming

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Reference Books:

Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. Random House, 1961.

Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. CUP, 2002. Kitchin, Lawrence. Mid-Century Drama. Faber, 1962.

Meisel, Martin. Shaw and 19th Century Theatre. Princeton University Press, 1963.

Rampal, Dushyant Kumar. Poetic Theory and Practice of T.S. Eliot. Atlantic Publishers, 1996.

 

E-Resources including links: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262014238_POWER_AND_SEXUALITY_IN_HENR IK_IBSENS_GHOSTS

https://www.sparknotes.com/drama/rhinoceros/

 

Reference Journals:

Research Gate

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO37. Evaluate drama through the lens of avant-garde writing and modernism

CO38. Appraise the historical developments in dramatic literature with reference to social contexts and theoretical frameworks

CO39. Analyze the plays as texts of dramatic composition, within Performance Studies

CO40. Examine the significance of different schools of thought in modern drama

CO41. Develop their opinion of/on aesthetic expression and investigate the reflection of many world cultures in drama
CO42.Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction