ENG 2580 MODERN DRAMA

This survey course examines the development of 20^th - and 21^st -century American, British, Continental, and World drama and performance across a series of cultural movements (realism, naturalism, aestheticism, symbolism, expressionism, futurism, dadaism, surrealism, absurdism, communalism, and post-colonialism). The course may include the plays of Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, Wilde, Jarry, Shaw, Yeats, Synge, Glaspell, O’Neill, Brecht, Pirandello, Odets, Lorca, Miller, Williams, Hansberry, Genet, Orton, Ionesco, Beckett, Pinter, Fugard, Albee, Stoppard, and Soyinka.

Credits

4 sh

Course Types

Expression; Literature

Previous Course Number

ENG 258