Twentieth- and Twenty- First-Century Drama and Performance
Overview
Subject area
ENGL
Catalog Number
371
Course Title
Twentieth- and Twenty- First-Century Drama and Performance
Department(s)
Description
A study of drama and performance from World War II to the present. Topics mayinclude theater of the absurd; musical theater; political theater; expandingexplorations of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic identities; installations,“happenings,” and performance art. Writers may include Edward Albee,Samuel Beckett, Lillian Hellman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Harold Pinter, Wole Soyinka,Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, and recent experimental dramatists andperformance artists.
Typically Offered
Fall, Spring
Academic Career
Undergraduate
Liberal Arts
Yes
Credits
Minimum Units
3
Maximum Units
3
Academic Progress Units
3
Repeat For Credit
No
Components
Name
Lecture
Hours
3
Requisites
009023