Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-218E/N2
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts 1.: Postmodern English Drama: Stages of the Absurd from Beckett through Stoppard to McDonagh
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The special seminar offers a complex (hermeneutical, phenomenological, dramaturgical) reading of a representative set of plays by the major dramatists of the theatre of the absurd from Beckett to McDonagh.
- Course content
- Selected plays of S. Beckett, H. Pinter, T. Stoppard, E. Albee and M. McDonagh
- Assessment method
- Regular attendance and preparation; close readings of the chosen text; conscious, conscientious and active participation in class work; individual and shared tasks in terms of presentations. Recommended grades earned by the above activities or exam after the term (oral or written)
- Bibliography
- Recommended reading Bentley, Eric. The Theory of the Modern Stage: an introduction to modern theatre and drama. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976. Bennett, Michael Y. Introduction to Theatre and Literature of the Absurd. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2015. __ __ Reassessing the Theatre of the Absurd. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Birringer, Johannes H. Theatre, theory, postmodernism. Drama and Performance s Studies. Bloomington: Indina Univ. Press, 1991. Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1961. Rayner, Alice. To act, to do, to perform: drama and he phenomenology of action. Theater-theory/text/performance. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press. 1994. Semiotics of Drama and Theatre: new prspectives in the theory of drama and theatre. Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, v. 10. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins, 1984. Szondi Peter. Theory of Modern Drama: a critical edition. Theory and history of literature; v. 29. Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1987. Watt, Stephen. Postmodern Drama: reading the contemporary stage. Theatre— /text/performance. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1988.