Modern American Drama: O'Neill to Albee - AAA500328

• Title: Moderní americké drama: od O'Neilla po Albeeho
• Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2013
• Semester: winter
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 5
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:0/2, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Is provided by: AAALB009A
• Guarantor: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D.
• Interchangeability : AAALB009A

Annotation

OBJECTIVES
The course will investigate the development of modern American drama in the first half of the twentieth century. We will
primarily concern ourselves with some of America?s canonical playwrights and with close reading of their work. C.W.E.
Bigsby observes that it is only when we reach the twentieth century that American drama begins to ?test its own boundaries
and possibilities.? We will explore the ways in which its key playwrights address these boundaries and possibilities in
particular through recurrent themes of social and individual alienation as well as through formal experiment. The playwrights
in focus this semester will include: Eugene O?Neill, Thornton Wilder, Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, Tennessee Williams,
Arthur Miller and Edward Albee. In the following semester part 2 of the course will deal with American drama and theatre from
mid-century to the present.

Full syllabus http://www.english-department-prague.cz/

Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)

Teaching methods

seminar

Last update: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (24.03.2010)