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    This document outlines a tentative syllabus for a course on Contemporary Dramatists for MA students of English Language and Literature. Over 15 weeks, students will study and analyze plays from dramatists like Ibsen, Brecht, Williams, O'Neill, Ionesco, Beckett, Wilson, Shepard, and Churchill. The course objectives are to provide a thorough understanding of concepts in contemporary drama through different perspectives. Students will be graded on a class presentation, paper, and final exam.

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    This document outlines a tentative syllabus for a course on Contemporary Dramatists for MA students of English Language and Literature. Over 15 weeks, students will study and analyze plays from dramatists like Ibsen, Brecht, Williams, O'Neill, Ionesco, Beckett, Wilson, Shepard, and Churchill. The course objectives are to provide a thorough understanding of concepts in contemporary drama through different perspectives. Students will be graded on a class presentation, paper, and final exam.

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    This document outlines a tentative syllabus for a course on Contemporary Dramatists for MA students of English Language and Literature. Over 15 weeks, students will study and analyze plays from dramatists like Ibsen, Brecht, Williams, O'Neill, Ionesco, Beckett, Wilson, Shepard, and Churchill. The course objectives are to provide a thorough understanding of concepts in contemporary drama through different perspectives. Students will be graded on a class presentation, paper, and final exam.

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    A course on Contemporary Dramatists: A survey for MA students of English Language and

    Literature
    A Tentative Syllabus Feb. 2016
    Teacher: Zahra Bordbari Ph.D.
    Email: bordbari@riau.ac.ir

    Objectives: To study and analyze contemporary dramas from different perspectives to help
    the students find a thorough understanding of the concepts discussed in contemporary drama.

    1st Week: Drama: An Overview


    2nd Week: Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler
    The Theatre of Revolt: Ch. 2
    3rd Week: Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and Her Children
    The Theatre of Revolt: Ch. 6
    Understanding Brecht: What is Epic Theatre?
    4th week: Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
    Verna Foster: Desire, Death, and Laughter: Tragicomic Dramaturgy in A Streetcar
    Named Desire.
    5th week: Eugene O’Neill: Hairy Ape
    Patrick J. Chura: “Vital Contact”: Eugene O’Neill and the Working Class
    7th Week: Eugene Ionesco: Rhinoceros
    9th Week: Samuel Beckett: Krapp’s Last Tape
    Paul Davis: Krapp’s Last Tape and the Myth of Recurrence
    11th Week: Drama of August Wilson: Fences
    Matthew Roudane: Safe at Home? August Wilson’s Fences
    13th Week: Drama of Sam Shepard: Buried Child
    15th Week: Caryl Churchill: Top Girls
    Georgiana Vasile: The Female Voices in Caryl Chuchill’s Top Girls: Sisters or
    Foes?

    Grading:

    Class Presentation 4/20


    Paper 2/20
    Final Exam 14/20

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