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    EUROPEAN DRAMA (Prof. Gulab) : Learning Outcomes

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    This document outlines the course objectives and units for a class on European drama. The course aims to develop students' understanding of drama as cultural communication, analyze plays as social and political narratives, and familiarize students with innovative writing styles. The units cover major European playwrights from the 15th-20th centuries like Brecht, Synge, Pirandello, and Ionesco. Students will answer short questions on concepts from Unit I and longer essay questions analyzing specific plays from Units II-V. Suggested readings provide historical and critical context on European theater traditions.

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    EUROPEAN DRAMA (Prof.

    Gulab)
    Learning Outcomes:
    C.S.O.1. Developing understanding of drama as a medium of interpersonal and cultural
    communication
    C.S.O.2. Enables to analyse drama as social and political narrative
    C.S.O.3. Familiarity with innovative writing style
    C.S. O.4. Contextualising dramatic texts in larger socio-cultural background

    Unit- I
    Non-Detailed Reading:

    Robert Garnier, Pierre Corneille, Molière, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean Racine, Jean-Paul Sartre,
    Arthur Adamov, Jean Genet, Fernando Arrabal, Frederic Nietzsche, Strindberg, Chekhov,
    Artaud, Goethe.

    Unit- II
    Bertolt Brecht Mother Courage and Her Children

    Unit- III
    J M Synge The Playboy of the Western World

    Unit- IV
    Luigi Pirandello Six Characters in Search of an Author

    Unit- V
    Eugene Ionesco Journeys Among the Dead

    Unit VI
    Sophocles: Oedipus the Rex, Aristophanes: The Frogs, August Strindberg: The Great
    Highway, Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot, Stanislaw Wyspianski: The Wedding, Ibsen: A
    Doll’s House, Helene Cixous: Drums on the Dam, Vaclav Havel: The Memorandum and,
    Arnold Wesker: The Roots.

    Instructions to the Paper-Setter and Students:

     There will be five questions with internal choice. All five questions are compulsory.

     Question 1 will be short answer type based on Non-Detailed reading of Unit I. It will aim
    at testing the students’ incisive understanding of the concepts, movements, trends, writers
    and texts in Unit I. Students will be required to answer six short answer type questions
    out of the given twelve selecting at least three from each section i.e. I and II in about 200
    words each.
    6X4=24

     Questions 2, 3, 4, and 5 will be long answer type with internal choice based on Units II,
    III, IV and V.
    4X14=56

    Suggested Readings:

    Aristotle: Poetics Ch 1-3

    Banham E. Martin. The Cambridge Guide to the Theatre.

    Barr, Allan P. Ed. Modern Women Playwrights of Europe.

    Bloom, Harold. ed. Greek Drama.


    Brecht, Bertolt. Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
    Cixous, Hélène. Politics,Ethics and Performance: Hélène Cixous and the Théâtre du Soleil.
    Edited by Lara Stevens
    Donaldson, Ian. Transformation in Modern European Drama.
    Fischer-Lichte, Erika. History of European drama and theatre.
    Gascoigne, Bamber. Twentieth-Century Drama. 1962.
    Gaskell, Ronald. Drama and Reality: The European Theatre since Ibsen
    Howatson M. C. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature.
    Innes, Christopher. A Sourcebook on Naturalist Theatre.
    Innes, Christopher. Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992.
    Innes, Christopher. Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett:
    Essays from Modern Drama. Edited by Frederick J. Marker and Christopher Innes.
    Lyman, Jane, ed. Perspectives on Plays.
    McGuire, Susan Bassnett. Luigi Pirandello.
    Moi, Toril. Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism: Art, Theatre, Philosophy
    Morash, Chris. A History of Irish Theatre 1601- 2000
    Nicoll, Allardyce and Arthur Wilmurt. World Drama: From Aeschylus to Anouilh.
    Orr, John. Tragic Drama and Modern Society: A Sociology of Dramatic Form from 1880
    to the Present. 1981.
    Knopf, Robert. Ed. Theatre of the Avant-Garde 1890-1950: A critical Anthology.

    Stanislavski, Constantin. An Actor Prepares


    Steiner, George. The Death of Tragedy
    Tornqvist, Egil. A Doll’s House
    Trussler, Simon. 20th Century Drama.
    Williams, Raymond. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht: A Critical Account and Revaluation.

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