Course details
Name: ENGL - 361
Title: MODERN IRISH DRAMA
Section: 01
Semester: Fall - 2018
Credits: 3
Description:
This is a course for students who want to know more about Ireland, Irish literature (especially drama), history, and culture. Plays by W.B. Yeats, Augusta Gregory, John Millington Synge, Bernard Shaw, Sean O’Casey, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Elizabeth Kuti will be studied in the context of Irish history and Irish cultural politics. The course will look at the place of drama in the emerging movement for Irish independence in the early years of the last century and consider the connections between the Easter Rising of 1916 and the Abbey Theatre. Work for the course: attendance & regular participation in class discussion; quizzes; mid-term exam; essay; and final exam. Readings include Playboy of the Western World and The Plough and the Stars. I'll arrange for student discount tickets to any Irish plays in New York during the Fall 2018 semester, and we'll go together as a class. Two Irish people will visit our class during the course of the semester and talk to us about the plays we're studying.
Schedule: Tuesday From 2:30 pm To 5:00 pm
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Drama)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- International Issues (3a)
Teaching Faculty: McDiarmid Lucy (mcdiarmidl)
Is course canceled: No