B.A. English
7th Semester Syllabus
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MJC-13 : Modern European Drama
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Unit 1: Ibsen, Henrik, Ghosts
◦Ibsen, Henrik, Ghosts, Four Major Plays
◦Oxford World's Classic
◦Oxford University Press
Unit 2: Bertolt Brecht, The Good Woman of Setzuan
◦Bertolt Brecht
◦The Good Woman of Setzuan
◦Bentley
◦Eric
◦Trans. & ed
◦London: Penguin, 2007
Unit 3: Genet Jean, The Balcony
◦Genet Jean, The Balcony, Atlantic, 1994
Unit 4: Pinter, Harold. The Dumb Waiter
◦Pinter, Harold
◦The Dumb Waiter
◦Published by Samuel French
◦UK
Reference Books:
- Constantin Stanislavski, An Actor Prepares, chap. 8, Faith and the Sense of Truth, tr. Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967. sections 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, pp. 121-5,137-46.
- Bertolt Brecht, The Street Scene, Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction, and Dramatic Theatre vs Epic
- George Steiner, 'On Modern Tragedy', in The Death of Tragedy, London: Faber, 1995. pp.303-24.
- Styan, J.L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice: Vol. 1 and 2, Cambridge University Press, 198.