COURSE SPECIFICATION
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COURSE TITLE
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PRE-REQUISITES
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Modern Drama
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and Poetry
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Brief contents, to be posted on university site and documents(4-5 lines):
Modern drama is a vision of modern times. Studying twentieth century drama is very
interesting and of free motif unlike the traditional writing of drama in the past centuries. Students
identify their insight in studying scenes and sights of present life. This course is concerned with the
development of drama and poetry in latest centuries. The course traces the development of modern
themes and styles in the work of major and minor British and American poets.
Course objectives:
1) To help students compare between the characteristics of modern poetry and drama.
2) To help students study trends and movements of dramatic writing.
3) To help students appreciate dramatic performances.
4) To enrich students' knowledge of the modern poetry.
5)
Demonstrate the skills of close reading, critical and analytical response to poetry.
Course Outcome:
Knowledge
Students acquaint with principles of great literary works. They create a desire to read further poems
and dramas.
Cognitive Skills
Students recognize the process of the development of English poetry and drama through modern
ages.
Interpersonal skills and responsibilities
(Group participation, leadership, personal responsibility, ethic and moral behaviour, capacity for self
directed learning)
Analysis and Communicative Skills
Students study three selected plays .The course introduces writing plays in ages after Shakespeare
and before the twentieth century.
Evaluation:
Mid–tem tests, seminar, discussions, participation, pairs and groups activities, and final examination
Prescribed Book:
The collections of the prescribed authors.
Kenneth Picketing. How to study Modern Drama Macmillan, 2008.
Greenblatt, Stephen G. (ed.) The Norton Anthology of English Literature: Romantic Period Through
the Twentieth Century. London: Norton, 2006.
Other Information Resources
.Salgado, G. English Drama : Critical Introduction. London : Edward Arnold, 2000.
Baym, Nina, (ed.) The Norton Anthology of American Literature. New York: Norton, 2002.
Ramazani, Jahan, Elmann Richards, and Robert O’Clair,(eds.) The Norton Anthology of Modern and
Contemporary Poetry. London: Norton, 2003.
Timetable of Syllabus
Week
Titles
Sections
1
Explanation with reference to the context of passages from the prescribed plays in
the following units.
Unit I
2
Elements of drama
Unit I
One selected play of T. S. Eliot:
3
e. g. - Murder in the Cathedral
- The Cocktail Party
OR : One selected play of Oscar Wilde: e.g. - The Importance of Being Earnest
Unit II
4
Assessment of the plays
Unit II
One selected play of Arthur Miller:
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6
e.g. - All My Sons
- Death of a Salesman
OR : One selected play of Osborne: e.g. -- Look Back in Anger
OR: One selected play of Harold Pinter: e.g. - The Birthday Party
Assessment of the plays
7
Midterm Test 1
8
Introduction to poetry – trends, schools, centuries, famous modern poets
9
Milton : selected poem: e.g. - ‘One His Blindness’, - ‘One May Morning’
Unit III
Unit VI
Unit V
Unit VI
10
Shakespeare: selected sonnet: e.g. Nos. 17, 20, 23, 30, 42, 55
Unit VI
11
Dryden : selected poem : e.g “ Mac Flecknoe “
Unit VII
12
Midterm Test 2
13
14
15
Donne : selected poems : e.g. – ‘The Good Morrow’
- ‘The Sunne Rising’
‘This is my play’s Last scene’
- ‘At the round earths imagined corners.’
George Herbert : selected poems: e. g. - ‘Rédemption’, - ‘Life’
OR: Andrew Marvell : selected poem: e.g. – ‘To His coy Mistress’
- ‘One Drop of Dew’, - ‘Horatian Ode’
Final Exam
Unit VIII
Unit IX
Unit X