Modern Drama

Photographs of Tennessee Williams, Wole Soyinka, and George Bernard Shaw.

Tennessee Williams, Wole Soyinka, and George Bernard Shaw. (Left image courtesy of the Library of Congress; center and right images taken from Wikipedia.)

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MIT Course Number

21L.486

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Spring 2006

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

Course Description

This course analyzes major modern plays featuring works by Shaw, Pirandello, Beckett, Brecht, Williams, Soyinka, Hwang, Churchill, Wilson, Frayn, Stoppard, Deveare Smith, and Kushner. The class particularly considers performance, sociopolitical and aesthetic contexts, and the role of theater in the world of modern multimedia.

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Diana Henderson. 21L.486 Modern Drama. Spring 2006. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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