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Academic Year 2000/2001
Readings in American Drama
ENGL 195 SP
We will read and discuss some canonized and uncanonized American plays written between the 1910s and the 1980s. Playwrights will include Susan Glaspell, Neith Boyce, Eugene O'Neill, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller,
Tennessee Williams, Amiri Baraka, Arthur
Kopit, Ntozake Shange, and David Mamet.
MAJOR READINGS
Susan Glaspell and George Cram Cook, SUPPRESSED DESIRES Neith Boyce, CONSTANCY Eugene O'Neill, LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT, THE HAIRY APE, and THE EMPEROR JONES Clifford Odets, WAITING FOR LEFTY Tennessee
Williams, A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
Arthur Miller, THE DEATH OF A SALESMAN Amiri Baraka, THE DUTCHMAN and THE SLAVE David Mamet, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS Arthur Kopit, INDIANS
EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS
Approximately nine very short papers. Each student will take a turn leading class discussion.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS
Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed
Drop/Add form to the Registrar's
Office.
COURSE FORMAT:
Lecture
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Level:
UGRD
Credit:
1
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL
Grading Mode:
Student Option
Prerequisites:
NONE
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Last Updated on MAR-26-2001
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