ENGL 184 Performance and Politics on the Global Stage

This course is a survey of major plays from Europe, the United States and Africa. Dramatists may include Sophocles, Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Moliere, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov, O'Neill, Brecht, Beckett, Hansberry, Fugard, and August Wilson. Studies social and political contexts of theater, performance practices, and writing about drama.