Courses of Study 2011-2012 
    
    Jul 05, 2025  
Courses of Study 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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THETR 3360 - [American Drama and Theatre]

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 3360 ) (LA-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Next offered 2012-2013. Limited to 25 students.

S. Warner.

Explores major American playwrights from 1900 to 1960, introducing students to American theatre as a significant part of modern American cultural history. We will consider the ways in which theatre has contributed to the construction and deconstruction of a national identity. We will pay special attention to the social, political, and aesthetic contexts of the time period and discuss the shifting popularity of dramatic forms, including melodrama, realism, expressionism, absurdism, and the folk play, in the American theatre canon. Authors include O’Neill, Glaspell, Odets, Rice, Hellman, Hughes, Hurston, Hansberry, Miller, Williams, and Albee, among others.



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