BRITISH DRAMA, 1914 TO PRESENT
Plays and playwrights from the first World War to the present, including movements leading to the "revolt" of 1956 and subsequent proletarian and absurdist drama. Plays by Shaw, O'Casey, Maugham, Coward, Eliot, Osborne, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Arden, Wesker, Bond, Churchill and others.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Junior standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2021 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique British plays and playwrights from the first world war to the present. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explore these plays' relationship to particular cultural and political shifts during this period. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate and pursue an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and critique British plays and playwrights from the first world war to the present. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Explore these plays' relationship to particular cultural and political shifts during this period. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Identify and apply methods and approaches for analysis of literary and cultural texts to demonstrate literature's contemporary and historical relevance. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Analyze relationships among society, literature, and language that underlie the construction of beliefs. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Assess the state of a body of scholarly literature related to course themes, identify gaps in that literature, and formulate and pursue an original research question in the context of those gaps. Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
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- BRITISH DRAMA, 1914 TO PRESENT · 3 credits.