ENG 49 - English Drama

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This course allows the student to explore the rich English dramatic tradition, one of the earliest and most vibrant in the Western world. Readings will trace its beginning in early medieval times through its extraordinary development in the time of Shakespeare and his contemporaries and record the shocking close of the theatres during the Puritan Commonwealth. Though its progress was interrupted, English drama rebounded with new energy in 1660 and continued to develop new and interesting dramatic types: sexually-charged comedies, and sentimental comedies, as well as the outrageously talky plays of George Bernard Shaw and the suave comic ironies of Oscar Wilde in his comedies of manners. The energies of the English theatre continued to flourish in the twentieth century in the absurd comedies of Harold Pinter and into the twenty-first in the intellectually challenging comedies of Tom Stoppard. Considerations of text will be supplemented by a study of theatrical innovations and performance practices. Readings will be drawn from the major playwrights. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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