ENGL 562 - Studies in Modern Drama

(3 credits)
Reading and discussion of significant works from among such key writers as Shaw, Jarry, Strindberg, Chekhov, Appollonaire, Pirandello, Cocteau, Lady Gregory, Yeats, Schitzler, Synge, O’Neil, O’Casey, Odets, Lorca, Sartre, Anouilh, Eliott, Brecht, Miller, Williams, Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, Stoppard, Mamet, Carol Churchill and Guare, as well as such earlier writers as George Buchner (1813-1837) whose work remained unknown until the twentieth century. Also studied may be such contributors to theatre aesthetic as Gordan Craig, Kenneth MacGowan and Robert Edmund Jones, Sheldon Cheney, Julian Beck and Judith Malina, and Robert Wilson.