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ENGL238: Twentieth-Century Drama in Context |
The unit explores significant drama texts from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, in their social, intellectual and theatrical contexts, with specific focus on the relations between ideological factors and dramatic themes and forms.
Topics will include fin-de-siecle debates about sexual roles (for example, the 'new woman', the 'woman with a past'), debates about conscience, the uses and abuses of power; theatre as polemic to influence social change; twentieth-century experiments in dramatic mode and form; aspects of staging and performance. Texts will be selected from works by playwrights such as Ibsen, Wilde, Pirandello, Ionesco, Brecht, Giraudoux, Hellman and Fo.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| Contact Hours: | 2 |
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D2 - Day; Offered in the second half-year
E2 - Evening; Offered in the second half-year
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| Staff Contact: |
Dr Colmer |
| Prerequisites: |
12cp, including ENGL120, or ENGL130 and ENGL145
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Graded
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| Offered By: |
Department of English |
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