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THIS CODE WAS CREATED SPECIFICALLY FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS. If you are an exchange student and you need a grade for this course, you should sign up for this course.
This course is a survey the work of a selection of British playwrights from the 1950s to the 1990s. It will explore the various characteristics of British theatre as it has developed in the latter half of the twentieth century, in terms of the dramatic techniques employed, the artistic and political agendas of playwrights and relevant historical contexts. Schedule (may be subject to small changes) 1. (1.10) Introduction: Hot to Cool, Osborne to Ravenhill, Tynan to Billington 2. (8.10) Generation gap: John Osborne Look Back in Anger (1956) 3. (15.10) Brechtian shadows: John Osborne The Entertainer (1957) & Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey (1958) 4. (22.10) A Theatre of the Absurd? Harold Pinter The Caretaker (1960), The Homecoming (1965) 5. (29.10) Provocations: Joe Orton Entertaining Mr Sloane (1964) & Edward Bond Saved (1965) 6. (5.11) Rewriting Shakespeare: Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) & Edward Bond Lear (1971) 7. (12.11) Experiments and role reversals: Caryl Churchill Cloud Nine (1979), Top Girls (1982) 8. (19.11) Humanities week no classes 9. (26.11) Political metaphors: Howard Brenton The Romans in Britain (1980) & David Hare Skylight (1995) 10. (3.12) Postmodern / post dramatic: Martin Crimp Attempts on Her Life (1997) 11. (10.12) In-Yer-Face: Sarah Kane Blasted (1995) & Mark Ravenhill Shopping and Fucking (1996) 12. (17.12) Expanded spaces at century’s end: David Greig Europe (1994), The Cosmonaut’s last message to the woman he once loved in the former Soviet Union (1999) ESSAY PROPOSALS ARE DUE 13 (7.1) Reserve / consultations Poslední úprava: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)
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Aston, Elaine. Feminist futures? Theatre, Performance, Theory. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillian, 2007. Baraniecka, Elżbieta. Sublime Drama: British Theatre of the 1990s. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2013. Bareham, T. ed. Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Jumpers, Travesties: a casebook. London: Macmillan, 1990. Billingham, Peter. At the Sharp End: Uncovering the Work of Five Leading Dramatists. London: Methuen, 2007. Brook, Peter. The Empty Space . Repr. (1990). London: Penguin Books. Brown, John Russell ed. Modern British dramatists: a collection of critical essays. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1968. Buse, Peter. Drama + Theory: Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001. D’Monté, Rebecca and Graham Saunders eds. Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. De Vos, Laurens and Graham Saunders eds. Kane in Context. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2010. D'Monté, Rebecca a Graham Saunders. Cool Britannia? British political drama in the 1990s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Drakakis, John ed. British radio drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Dutton, Richard. Modern tragicomedy and the British tradition: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Albee and Storey . Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986. Elsom, John. Post-war British theatre criticism . London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. Esslin, Martin. Pinter the playwright . London: Methuen, 1992. Esslin, Martin. The theatre of the absurd [Penguin]. - 3rd ed., rev. and enlarged; repr. (1982). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1980. Gordon, Robert. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Jumpers and The Real Thing: text and performance. London: Macmillan, 1991. Gottlieb, Vera and Colin Chambers, eds. Theatre in a Cool Climate. Oxford: Amber Lane, 1999. Hayman, Ronald. British theatre since 1955: a reassessment . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979. Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama 1890-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Kane, Sarah. Complete plays: Blasted; Phaedra's love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin [Kane] intro. David Greig. London: Methuen, 2000. Lane, David. Contemporary British drama [online]. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010. Megson, Christopher. Modern British playwriting: the 1970s: voices, documents, new interpretations. London [u.a.]: Methuen Drama, 2012. Milling, Jane. Modern British playwriting: The 1980s: voices, documents, new interpretations. London: Methuen Drama, 2012. Müller, Anja and Clare Wallace eds. Cosmotopia: Transnational Identities in David Greig’s Theatre. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2011. Müller, Anja. “‘We are also Europe’: Staging Displacement in David Greig’s Europe.” Staging Displacement, Exile and Diaspora in Contemporary Drama in English. Ed. Christoph Houswitschka. Contemporary Drama in English 12. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005. 151-168. Nesteruk, Peter. “Ritual, Sacrifice, and Identity in Recent Politcal Drama—with Reference to the Plays of David Greig.” Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 15.1 (2000): 21-42. Osborne, John. Almost a Gentleman: An Autobiography. Vol.II., 1955-1966 . London: Faber and Faber, 1991. Osborne,John. Look Back in Anger: notes / Gareth Griffiths. London; Beirut: Longman York Press, 1981. Ravenhill, Mark. Plays: one [Ravenhill] . intro. Dan Rebellato. London: Methuen, 2001. Rebellato, Dan. Modern British playwriting: voices, documents, new interpretations. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. Roose-Evans, James. Experimental theatre from Stanislavsky to Peter Brook London: Routledge, 2001. Saunders, Graham. “Love Me or Kill Me”: Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2002. Shellard, Dominic. British Theatre since the War. New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2000. Shepherd, Simon and Peter Womack. English drama: a cultural history. Oxford; Cambridge: Blackwell, 1996. Sierz, Aleks. In-yer-face theatre: British drama today . London: Faber and Faber, 2001. Sierz, Aleks. Modern British playwriting: The 1990s: voices, documents, new interpretations. London: Methuen Drama, 2012. Tőrnqvist, Egil. Transposing drama: studies in representation. London: Macmillan, 1991. Trewin, J. C. Drama 1945-1950. London: Longmans, Green, 1951. Voigts-Virchow, Eckart. “Sarah Kane, a Late Modernist: Intertextuality and Montage in the Broken Images of Crave (1998).” What Revels are in Hand? Assessments of Contemporary Drama in English in Honour of Wolfgang Lippke. Eds. Bernhard Reitz and Heiko Stahl. CDE Studies 8. Trier: Wissenshaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2001. 205-220. Wallace, Clare. “Dramas of Radical Alterity: Sarah Kane and Codes of Trauma for a Postmodern Age.” Extending the Code: New Forms of Dramatic and Theatrical Expression. Eds. Hans-Ulrich Moher and Kerstin Mächler. Contemporary Drama in English 11. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2004. 117-130. Wallace, Clare. Suspect Cultures: Narrative, Identity and Citation in 1990s New Drama. Prague: Litteraria, 2006. Wallace, Clare. The Theatre of David Greig. London: Bloomsbury/Methuen, 2013. Watt, Stephen. Postmodern/Drama: Reading the Contemporary Stage. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. Williams, Raymond. Modern Tragedy. London: Chatto & Windus, 1966. Zeifman, Hersh and Cynthia Zimmerman eds. Contemporary British drama, 1970-90. Toronto; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1993. Zenzinger, Peter. “David Greig’s Scottish View of the ‘New’ Europe: A Study of Three Plays.” Literary Views on Post-Wall Europe: Essays in Honour of Uwe Böker. Ed. Christoph Houswitschka et al. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2005. 261-282. Zimmermann, Heiner. “Martin Crimp’s Attempts on her Life: Postdramatic, Postmodern, Satiric?” (Dis)Continuities—Trends and Traditions in Contemporary Theatre and Drama in English. Eds. Margarete Rubik and Elke Mettinger-Schartmann. Contemporary Drama in English 9. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2002. 105-124. Poslední úprava: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)
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seminar Please note: this is an MA-level class; in order to pass, you must capable of reading and discussing primary in English and be capable of working with academically appropriate secondary text to compose an academic research paper at the end of the course.
Course materials and essay topics will be shared on Moodle. Deadline for proposals: uploaded on the course site by 18.00 on 17 December 2024. Deadline for essays: uploaded on the course site by 18.00 on 30 January 2025. Chicago format for citations and bibliographies is required (models can be found in the library, the departmental Study Guide and on the internet—See http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/doc/essays.doc. Essays will be submitted to Turnitin and checked for plagiarism and AI. Poslední úprava: Wallace Clare, doc., M.A., Ph.D. (15.09.2024)
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