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Apr 30, 2024
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ENGL 185 SC - Modern Drama
This course studies the development of modern British and European drama from its origins in the late nineteenth century to the present. Emphasis both on the principal schools and movements of modern drama (realism, symbolism, expressionism, theater of the absurd, metatheater, theatre of cruelty, epic theater, postmodernism) and on its reckoning with the major social and political upheavals beyond the stage. The focus of the course is on textual study, but with attention to theory and performance history too. Authors include Chekhov, Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Artaud, Genet, Brecht, Beckett, Osborne, Kroetz, Müller, Pinter, Churchill, Stoppard, and Wertenbaker.
Course Credit: 1.0
Offered: Occasionally
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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