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14216 Origin of American Theatre - Five-year degree in English Philology


Center
Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication
Departament
English and German
Lecturers in charge
Sin datos cargados
Met. Docent
Lectures
Met. Avaluació
Final examination and project work
Bibliografia
Bigsby, C. W. E. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-century American Drama (3 vols.). Cambridge U.P., 1982-83.
Cohn, Ruby. New American Dramatists 1960-1980. London & Basingstoke: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1982.
Hewitt, Barnard. Theatre USA, 1665-1957. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959.
Meserve, Walter J. An Outline History of American Drama. Totowa, N.J.: Littlefield, Adams & Co., 1965.
Continguts
Content I.:
Reading and commentary on diverse authors relating them with the context of the different periods and historical-literary movements.

II. Program:

North American theater from the XVIII century through the wars of independence (Royall Tyler and Anne Cora Mowatt) and the ceasefire and later reconstruction (James A. Herne), and throughout the whole XX century, with authors like Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Arthur Miller and Sam Shepard