Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CI8aE.03
- Title
- Modern Drama - Foundations and Perspectives: Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- During this MA seminar series students are introduced to the seminal works of twentieth-century Irish playwrights, north and south of the border. Students are also introduced to a variety of issues shaping contemporary critical discourse in Irish Studies.
- Course content
- We are reading works written by the most important playwrights of the twentieth century, including W. B. Yeats, Sean O’Casey, Frank McGuinness and Stewart Parker. The course unveils these playwrights’ response to the many dramatic moments of Ireland’s twentieth-century history.
- Assessment method
- Final mark is based on the student’s short presentation during the term, on her/his end-of-term presentation and on her/his seminar work during the semester.
- Bibliography
- Compulsory: The list of plays is handed to students at the beginning of the term. Recommended · Grene, Nicholas. The Politics of Irish Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. · Kiberd, Declan. Inventing Ireland. London: Vintage, 1966.