ENGL 414 - Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams:Representative American Dramatists

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Trinity College

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Description:

In this course we will study selected plays by Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams, with a focus not only on the individual plays but on the broader dramatic and cultural contexts in which these two authors wrote and in which their plays were initially performed. We will consider some early sea plays of O'Neill's as well a selection of his mythic and autobiographical plays. Plays of Williams will include THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, THE GLASS MENAGERIE, and SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH, among others. We may view films of major plays. This course is open to undergraduates with permission of instructor. For graduate students, this course satisfies the requirements of a course in American literature or a course emphasizing cultural contexts for the Literary Studies track of the English M.A. It serves as an elective for the Writing, Rhetoric, and Media Arts track of the English M.A. For undergraduate students, this course emphasizing literature written after 1800 or a cultural contexts course 1.00 units, Seminar

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1.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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