SemesterSpring Semester, 2021
DepartmentMA Program of English, First Year Ph.D. Program in English Literature, First Year MA Program of English, Second Year Ph.D. Program in English Literature, Second Year
Course NameModern Drama
InstructorJIANG TSUI-FEN
Credit3.0
Course TypeElective
Prerequisite
Course Objective
Course Description
Course Schedule

Week Date       Topic                                                               Oral Presentation Q&A



1      2.23         INTRODUCTION TO THE COURSE



                        Classroom: 檢索教室 4th F, Daxian Library 達賢圖書館



2      3.2           1. A Doll’s House (1879)



3      3.9           2. A Dream Play (1901)



4      3.16         3. The Cherry Orchard (1904)



5      3.23         4. Major Barbara (1905)



6      3.30         5. Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)



7      4.6           6. Desire under the Elms (1924)



8      4.13         7. Mother Courage and Her Children (1941)



9      4.20         8. Glass Menageries (1944)



10    4.27         9. Death of a Salesman (1949)



11    5.4           10. Waiting for Godot (1953)



12    5.11         11. A Raisin in the Sun (1959)



13    5.18         12. ‘night Mother (1969)



14    5.25         13. Top Girls (1982)



15    6.1           14. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (1987)



16    6.5           15. M. Butterfly (1988)



17    6.15         Term Paper Outline Presentation



18    6.22         Term Paper Conference



 


Teaching Methods
Teaching Assistant
Requirement/Grading

Students are expected to do two 30-minute oral presentations and make hard copies of their oral presentations for the whole class. The content of the oral report should include the playwright, plot, character, theme, symbol, their classmates’ discussion questions, and selected annotated bibliography. Students are to design one study question, send the question to their classmate in charge of the oral report one day before the class, write down the answer, and turn in the hard copy weekly. They have to present their term paper topic, abstract, and outline one week before the paper deadline. The term paper (10 pages for MA students, 15 pages for PhD students) is due one week after the end of the class.



Participation in discussion      10%



Weekly Q&A                          10%



Two oral presentations            30%



One term paper                       50%



 


Textbook & Reference

Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts. Taipei: Bookman,



     1997.



Hwang, David Henry. M. Butterfly. New York: Penguin, 1988.



Miller, Jordan Y. ed. The Heath Introduction to Drama. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.



     C. Heath and Co., 1996. 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13,



Worthen, W. B. The Harcourt Brace Anthology of Drama. 2nd edition. Fort Worth:



     Harcourt Brace College, 1996. 5, 14



Recommended Reading List



Aristotle.  Aristotle’s Theory of Poetry and Fine Art.  Critical Text and Translation



by S. H. Butcher. 4th ed. New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1951.  808.1



B971E4



Bentley, Eric.  In Search of Theatre.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1975. 



792.0904 B446



Bentley, Eric.  The Playwright as Thinker: A Study of Drama in Modern Times. 



New York: Reynal & Company, Inc., 1967.  812.09 B446



Bigsby, C. W. E.  A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-century American Drama. 



Vol. I: 1900-1940. New York, 1983.  812,5209 B594 v. 1, v. 2, v. 3



Bigsby, C. W. E.  Modern American Drama.  Cambridge: Cambridge University   Press, 1992.   812.5409 B594



Berkowitz, M. Gerald.  American Drama of the Twentieth Century.  Edinburgh:    Longman, 1992.    0-582-01602-9 csd/0-582-01601-0 ppr



Brockett, Oscar G.  The Theatre: An Introduction.



Brockett, Oscar G.  History of the Theatre.  6th ed. Boston, 1991.



Brockett, Oscar G., and Findlay, Robert R.  Century of Innovation: A History of



European and American Theatre and Drama Since 1870.  Boston: Allyn and



Bacon, 1991.  792.094 B846



Brockett, Oscar G.  History of the Theatre.  3d ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, inc.,



1991.  792.09 B864



Brown, John Russell, ed.  Modern British Dramatists: A Collection of Critical



Essays.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1968.  822.91409 B813



Demetz, Peter, Ed.  Brecht: A Collection of Critical Essays.  Englewood Cliffs, NJ,



1962.  804 D396



Elsom, John.  Post-War British Theatre.  London, 1981.  792.0941 EL78



Esslin, Martin.  The Theatre of the Absurd.  Rev. ed. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday



& Company, Inc., 1969  ES78R ES78



Fergusson, Francis.  The Idea of a Theater.  Princeton, N.J.: Princeton U P, 1949. 



808.2 F381



Finney, Gail.  Women in Modern Drama: Freud, Feminism, and European Theater at     the Turn of the Century.  United States of America: Cornell University Press,   1989.      809.293522 F514 



Gassner, John.  Masters of the Drama.  3d ed. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.,



1954.   809.2 G217E3R



Gassner, John.  The Theatre in Our Times.  See under Chapter 13.  792.01 G217



Hayman, Ronald.  How to Read a Play.  New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1977. 



808.2 H332



King, Kimball.  Modern Dramatists: A Casebook of Major British, Irish, and American Playwrights.  New York and London: Routledge, 2001.  822.9109 M689 



Krutch, Joseph W.  The American Drama Since 1918.  812.509 K947R



Lyons, Charles.  Samual Beckett.  New York, 1984.  848.91409 B388-L995



Pronko, Leonard.  Avant-Garde: The Experimental Theatre in France.  Berkeley,



1962.  842.914 P944



Rabey, David I.  British and Irish Political Drama in the Twentieth Century



London, 1986.  822.9109358 R112



Roose-Evans, James.  Experimental Theatre: From Stanislavsky to Peter Brook. 



rev. ed. London, 1984.  792.0904 R781a//792.022 R676E4



Sierz, Aleks. In-Yer-face-theatre: British Drama Today.  London: faber and faber,   2000.     792.0941 S572



Styan, J. L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Vols. 1, 2, 3. Cambridge:



    Cambridge UP, 1981.  809.2 S938



Thompson, Alan R.  The Anatomy of Drama.  2d ed. Berkeley: U of California P,



1946.  808.21 T371



Valency, Maurice.  The End of the World: An Introduction to Contemporary Drama



New York, 1980.  809.2915 V234



Wandor, Michelene.  Post-War British Drama: Looking back in gender.  Oxon:     Routledge, 2001.  822.91409 W245



Williams, Raymond.  Drama from Ibsen to Brecht.  London: Chatto & Windus,



Ltd., 1952.  809.2 W675


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