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Modern Drama: Course Outline

The course contents examine the emergence of realism at the end of the nineteenth century, the subsequent reactions against realism (expressionism, surrealism, Epic Theater, Absurdism), and the great American restatements of realism

Course Outline

  • Modernism and Post Modernism
  • Drama and Dramaturgy, Modern Theater
  • Henrik Ibsen as a Modern Playwright
  • Hedda Gabler: its detailed study with critical analysis
  • Second half of Hedda Gabler: its detailed study with critical analysis
  • Third half  of Hedda Gabler: its detailed study with critical analysis
  • George Bernard Shaw as a modern dramatist     
  • Man and Superman : its detailed study with critical analysis
  • Second half of Man and Superman : its detailed study with critical analysis
  • Modern American Drama /Theater
  • Critical Reading of Moruning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
  • Second half of Moruning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
  • Samuel Becket and Theatre of the Absurd
  • Waiting for Godot : its detailed study with critical analysis
  • Second Act of Waiting for Godot : its detailed study with critical analysis

 

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