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English 256.401
Seeds of Modern Drama
Cary Mazer profile

TR 12-1:30
Fulfills Sector 6: 20th Century Literature of the English Standard Major
Fulfills Elective Seminar of the English Standard Major

This course examines western drama from the middle of the nineteenth century through the first World War, which aspired to new levels of theatrical and social realism, and then experimented with piercing the boundaries of the realism that it had just achieved. Readings will include plays by Ibsen, Strindberg, Hauptmann, Wedekind, Synge, Shaw, Granville Barker, Elizabeth Robins, and Chekhov



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