THTR 316 British Drama and Theatre

Beginning with a brief look at its medieval origins, this course will study a selection from the Elizabethan plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries (e.g. Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton) examples of the “comedy of manners” in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, and several modern and contemporary works by such playwrights as Shaw, O’Casey, Pinter and Churchill.