English 6341 SEMINAR IN AMERICAN DRAMA - Angelo State ...

Tentative Schedule
T 1/15 Introduction: Reading Drama as a Genre
Lecture/Discussion: Provincetown and the New American Drama
Susan Glaspell, “Trifles” (1916) [handout]
T 1/22 Lecture/Discussion: Modernism, Expressionism, and Comedy
Eugene O’Neill, The Emperor Jones (1920) and The Hairy Ape (1922)
T 1/29 Student Presentation: Freud, Jung, and Mythological Criticism
O’Neill, The Iceman Cometh (1939)
T 2/5 Student Presentation: Nietzsche on Tragedy
O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941)
T 2/12 Student Presentation: Marxist Criticism and Left-wing Theater of the 1930s
Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty (1935) and Awake and Sing (1935)
T 2/19 Student Presentation: The Southern Renaissance
Tennessee Williams, Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
T 2/26 Mid-term Exam
T 3/5 Student Presentation: Arthur Miller’s Moral Vision
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949)
T 3/12 Spring Break
T 3/19 Student Presentation: Theater of the Absurd
Edward Albee, The Zoo Story (1959) and The American Dream (1961)
T 3/26 Student Presentation: Naturalism and Postmodernism
Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1962)
T 4/2 Student Presentation: African-American Drama
August Wilson, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (1982)
T 4/9 Student Presentation: Gender Theory and Feminist Criticism
Marsha Norman, ‘night Mother (1983)
T 4/16 Student Presentation: Post-colonialist Criticism
Lynn Nottage, Ruined (2010)
T 4/23 Conference Papers
T 4/30 Conference Papers and Review
T 5/7 Final Exam
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