PdF:AJPV_MADM Modern Anglo-American Drama - Course Information

AJPV_MADM Modern Anglo-American Drama

Extent and Intensity

0/1/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

PhDr. Pavel Doležel, CSc. (seminar tutor)

Guaranteed by

PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková

Timetable of Seminar Groups

AJPV_MADM/PV: Tue 15:15–16:00 učebna 57, P. Doležel

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

• Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English Language (programme PdF, B-SPE) (2)
• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, B-SPE)
• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-SS)
• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS4)
• Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in English Language and Literature (programme PdF, M-ZS5)
• Lower Secondary School and Language School Teacher Training in English Language (programme PdF, N-ZS) (2)

Course objectives

The course deals with the development of Anglo-America drama from the end of the 19th century till 1989. The emphasis is being put on the Anglo-Saxon response to European dramatic production from Ibsen to Albee. In the end students are supposed to give proper analysis of contemporary dramatic texts.

Syllabus

• Topics:
• 1. Henrik Ibsen and G.B. Shaw.
• 2. B. Brecht and Robert Bold.
• 3. Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.
• 4. S. Beckett and Harold Pinter.
• 5. Edward Bond and Tom Stoppard.
• 6. Edward Albee.

Literature

• INNES, Christopher. Modern British drama :the tweentieth century. 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xxvii, 572. ISBN 0-521-01675-4. info
• BIGSBY, C. W. E. A critical introduction to twentieth-century American drama. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1982, viii, 355. ISBN 0521277175. info
• TAYLOR, John Russell. Anger and after : a guide to the new British drama. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1963, 351 s. info

Teaching methods

Listening to, semiotic analysis, and discussing selected materials.

Assessment methods

Lecture.
- home reading
- critical reading
- final discussion

Language of instruction

English

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 1 hodina.

• Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2010, recent)
  
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