| CODE | ENG2173 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Modern Drama | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The purpose of the study-unit is to provide a survey of Modern English Drama (1900-1940). Description: The study-unit will focus, in particular, on the notion of ‘innovation’ and ‘experiment’ in some of the plays of the leading dramatists of the period. The following are for detailed study: Oscar Wilde, Salome; J. M. Synge, Riders to the Sea; W. B. Yeats, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, At the Hawk’s Well, Purgatory; George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Saint Joan; T. S. Eliot, Murder in the Cathedral. Reading List: - Ayling, Ronald, J. M. Synge: Four Plays, A Casebook (London: Macmillan, 1992). - Bentley, E. R., Bernard Shaw, 2nd edn (London: Methuen, 1967). - Browne, Elliot Martin, The Making of T.S. Eliot’s Plays (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969). - Chothia, Jean, English Drama of the Early Modern Period 1890-1940 (Harlow: Longman, 1996). - Ellis-Fermor, Una, The Irish Dramatic Movement, 2nd edn (London: Methuen, 1954). - Powell, Kerry, Oscar Wilde and the Theatre of the 1890s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). - Price, Alan, Synge and Anglo-Irish Drama (London: Methuen, 1961). - Ransome, Arthur, Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (London: Methuen & Co., 1913). - Richards, Shaun, The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004). - Synge, J. M., The Aran Islands (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979). - The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw, ed. Christopher Innes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998). - The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde, ed. Peter Raby (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). - Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest - Williams, Raymond, Drama from Ibsen to Brecht, 2nd edn (London: Hogarth, 1987). - Worth, Katherine, The Irish Drama of Europe from Yeats to Beckett (London: Athlone Press, 1986). |
||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
| METHOD OF ASSESSMENT |
|
||||||||
| LECTURER/S | Aaron Aquilina |
||||||||
|
The University makes every effort to ensure that the published Courses Plans, Programmes of Study and Study-Unit information are complete and up-to-date at the time of publication. The University reserves the right to make changes in case errors are detected after publication.
The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2023/4. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
|||||||||