Major Playwrights:

(4 Credits)

This course (different each time) focuses on two or three related major playwrights. For example: Brecht and Shaw, Chekhov and Williams, Churchill and Bond, Beckett and Pinter, Strindberg and O?Neill. An in-depth study of their writings, theories, and production histories of their plays in relation to biographical, cultural, political, and aesthetic contexts.