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Lit 224 Modern English Drama

The document outlines the course objectives and weekly topics for LIT 224: Modern English Drama at the University of Uyo for the 2024-2025 session. It covers major movements in modern drama, key playwrights, and their works, emphasizing themes such as realism, feminism, and multiculturalism. The course aims to enhance students' analytical skills and understanding of the social and cultural contexts of modern drama.

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Lit 224 Modern English Drama

The document outlines the course objectives and weekly topics for LIT 224: Modern English Drama at the University of Uyo for the 2024-2025 session. It covers major movements in modern drama, key playwrights, and their works, emphasizing themes such as realism, feminism, and multiculturalism. The course aims to enhance students' analytical skills and understanding of the social and cultural contexts of modern drama.

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UNIVERSITY O F UYO, UYO

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
2ND SEMSTER 2024-2025 SESSION
LIT 224: MODERN ENGLISH DRAMA
Course Objectives :
By the end of the course, students will:
1. Understand major trends and movements in modern English drama;
2. Analyze dramatic text s using critical and theoretical frameworks;
3. Appreciate the social, political, and cultural contexts that shaped modern drama;
4. Developing interpretive and analytical writing skills.

Week 1: Introduction
 What is “Modern” in Modern Drama?
 Overview of major movements: Realism, Naturalism, Expressionism, Absurdism, Post
modernism
Wek2: Henrik Ibsen: (Influence on English Drama)
 A Doll’s House (as precursor to modern English drama)
 Themes: individual vs society, gender, realism.

Week 3: George Bernard Shaw


 Pygmalion
 Discussion on intellectual drama, social criticism, Fabianism

Week 4: John Millington Synge


 The Playboy of the Western World
 National identity, myth, and realism

Week 5: T. S. Eliot
 Murder in the Cathedral
 Poetic drama, religious themes, modernist experimentation

Week 6-7: Samuel Beckett


 Waiting for Godot
 Absurdism, existentialism, minimalism

Week 8: Harold Pinter


 The Birthday Party
 Pinteresque dialogue, menace, ambiguity

Week 9: Tom Stoppard


 Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
 Metatheatre, postmodernism, intertextuality

Week 10: Caryl Churchill


 Top Girls
 Feminist Drama, non-linear narrative, Thatcherism critique

Week 11: David Hare / Sarah Kane


 David Hare: Skylight (Politics and intimacy)
 Sarah Ka ne : Blasted (In-yer-face theatre, trauma)

Week 12: Multiculturalism in Modern Drama


 East is East by Ayub Khan-Din or The Empress by Tanika Gupta
 Identity, immigration, postcolonialism

Week 13: Student Assignments, Review and Final Discussions

 Student assignments on major issues (gender, power, religion, politics, etc

 Synthesis of movements and themes

 Preparation for exams

Prof. Friday Okon/Dr Bernard Dickson

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