Tema Subtema
The Nature of Theatre Drama and theatre
Text and performance
Elements of a play
Introduction to English Drama Medieval Drama
Renaissance and Restauration
Modern English Drama
Twentieth Century English Drama George Bernard Shaw, comedy and social criticism
Oscar Wilde, aestheticism and the critique of convention: “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Modernist poetic drama: T.S. Eliot
The angry decade: John Osborne and the return to realism
From the existential to the absurd: Harold Pinter, “The Caretaker.” Samuel Beckett.
Postmodernist experiments: Tom Stoppard, “Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.”