MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA

ACL570

Course Code: ACL570
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 5

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree With Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Professor Gül Varlı Karaarslan

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Explore the dramatic movements and narrative strategies that characterize modern American drama during the early twentieth century.
Analyze the relationship between staging techniques and play scripts.
Discuss selected plays within their social, cultural, and historical contexts.

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

This course offers a survey of the development of American drama throughout the initial half of the twentieth century with an emphasis on seminal works and playwrights that shaped the period. Highlighting the combination of realistic and modernist techniques that characterize modern American drama, this course focuses on the works of distinguished dramatists including but not only limited to Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, Lorraine Hansberry, and Sam Shephard who articulate their social and political concerns in their selected works.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the Course- Selection of Plays and Distribution of Presentations
2^nd Week	Survey of Modern American Drama, European Influences
3^rd Week	Arthur Miller, All My Sons (1946), ?Tragedy and the Common Man?
4^th Week	Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
5^th Week	Eugene O?Neill, Long Day?s Journey into the Night (1956)
6^th Week	Edward Albee, The American Dream (1961)
7^th Week	David Mamet, Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)
8^th Week	MIDTERM EXAM
9^th Week	August Wilson, The Piano Lesson (1987)
10^th Week	Tony Kushner, Angels in America (2003)
11^th Week	Heather Raffo, 9 Parts of Desire (2004)
12^th Week	Joshua Harmon, Bad Jews (2013)
13^th Week	Aleshea Harris, Is God Is (2018)
14^th Week	REVISION

Recommended or Required Reading

Hansberry, Lorraine. A Raisin in the Sun. Wiley, 1992.
Hughes, Langston. Mulatto. University P., 1963.
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Penguin, 1996.
Moody, William Vaughn. The Great Divide. HardPress P., 2014.
O?Neill, Eugene. Desire Under the Elms. CreateSpace, 2016.
Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. Penguin, 2009.
Watt, Stephen, and Gary A. Richardson, eds. American Drama: Colonial to Contemporary. Heinle and Heinle P., 1994.
Wilder, Thornton. Our Town: A Play in Three Acts. Coward McCann, 1938.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Assignment	1	20
Presentation of Article	1	10
Total(%)		60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		40
Total(%)		100

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Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

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