Courses in Theatre and Drama are listed in the Time Schedule under the School of Music in the subsection Theatre and Drama.
The following course counts as an LS&A course for LS&A degree credit.
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423/English 449. American
Theatre and Drama. (3). (HU).
Section 201 – Before O'Neill/After Shepard. This survey course
will examine the origin and development of U.S. Drama in the twentieth
century. Beginning with playwrights like O'Neill, Glaspell, Rice, Odets, and Treadwell, the class will focus on the interrelationship
of U.S. culture in American Drama and American Drama in U.S. culture, especially as it manifests itself in the mid-century plays of
Miller, Williams, and Hellman. Topics of class discussion will
include: the emergence of a nativist theater tradition, the role
of ethnicity, the situation of the female playwright, the conflict
between commercial and artistic values, and the move to a more
pluralistic and inclusive theater, one in which previously marginalized
voices move to center stage. Additional playwrights on the reading
list include Hansberry, Albee, Mamet, Shepard, Fornes, Lanford
Wilson, Kushner, Wang, and August Wilson. Cost:3
(Brater)
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