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Modern Drama - I (1900-1960) [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 323 - C
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

10.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

G. B. Shaw

Major Barbara

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

T. S. Eliot

Murder in the Cathedral

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Arnold Wesker

I’m Talking About Jerusalem

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Samuel Beckett

Waiting for Godot

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Terence Rattigan

The Deep Blue Sea

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Esslin, Martin. Theatre of the Absurd. New York: Random House,1961.Print.

Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.

Kitchin, Lawrence. Mid-Century Drama. London: Faber,1962. Print.

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

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

Academic Year: 
2017-2018 [2]

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