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JE 306 POST-WAR BRITISH DRAMA: CASE STUDIES

LEVEL: 3

PRE-REQUISITES: JE 264 or KL 255 or JE 261 or CM 268 (or agreed alternative)

AIMS

This unit, which builds on skills and knowledge gained in the pre-requisite units shown above, introduces you to a number of plays which share certain formal or thematic characteristics, exploring their position within the broader historical and cultural context. The playwrights currently being studied are Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard and Arden.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

On completion of the unit, you should have knowledge of the following:

• the historical background to post-war drama
• the chief social influences on the development of post-war British drama
• the concept of the Absurd
• selected works of the chosen playwrights
• You should also have gained the following skills:
• critical skills in the analysis of primary and secondary texts
• the ability to articulate knowledge and understanding in spoken and written modes as required
• awareness of the distinction between description and analysis
• the ability to construct a reasoned argument and to defend it
• command of appropriate technical vocabulary
• the ability to use clear and accurate English
• research skills
• bibliographic skills
• time management
• word-processing
• presentation skills

TEACHING METHOD

The unit will be taught through a combination of lectures and seminars. Audio-visual material will be used where appropriate. You will be expected to read primary and secondary texts in preparation for class discussion which forms an essential element of this course. Set texts will be approached through individual close readings and comparative studies.

 ASSESSMENT

Assessment will consist of a 3000-word essay worth 40% and a final, unseen three-hour examination with two questions, each worth 30%. The essay must be word-processed.

Please note that for this unit (as for all JE units) you must pass the final examination in order to pass the unit overall. The assessment criteria are as follows:

For both the assignment and the final examination, you must show

• relevant subject knowledge
• the ability to analyse text in detail
• an understanding of textual context
• the ability to present material effectively in writing
• support for arguments
• bibliographic skills
• presentation skills

Please consult the mark sheet and the self-evaluation sheet in the unit handbook for further details of what assessors look for.

OUTLINE SYLLABUS

John Arden Serjeant Musgrave�s Dance (1959)

Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (1952)

Harold Pinter The Birthday Party (1958)

No Man�s Land (1974)

Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. (1966)

Jumpers (1972)

Additional textual extracts may be studied.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

(A detailed bibliography will be provided for each dramatist)

Set background text

Wallis, Mick and Shepherd, Simon (1988) Studying Plays. London: Arnold

References

Bradbury, Malcolm et al (Eds) (1981) Contemporary English Drama. East Grinstead: Bowker

Bentley Eric (1948) The Modern Theatre. London: Robert Hale

Bentley, Eric (1965) The Life of the Drama. London: Methuen

Brater, Enoch & Cohn, Ruby (1992) Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Post-Modern Drama. Michigan: University of Michigan Press

Burkman, Katherine (1986) The Arrival of Godot: ritual patterns in modern drama. New York: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Cave, Richard (1988) New British Drama in Performance on the London Stage. London: St Martin�s Press

Cornish, Roger & Ketels, Violet (1988) Landmarks in Modern British Drama. London: Heinemann

Dutton, Richard (1986) Modern Tragicomedy and the British Tradition: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Albee and Storey. Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press

Hodgson, Terry (1993) Modern Drama from Ibsen to Fugard. London: Trafalgar Square

Howard, Diana (1986) (2^nd ed) Directory of Theatre Resources: a guide to research collections and information services. London: Library Association

Innes, C. (1992) Modern British Drama 1880-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Innes, Christopher et al (1999) Twentieth-Century British and American Theatre: a critical guide to archives. Aldershot: Ashgate

Kerensky, Oleg (1977) The New British Drama. London: Hamish Hamilton

Page, Adrian & Bloom, Clive (Eds) (1992) The Death of the Playwright: Modern British Drama and Literary Theory. London: St Martin�s Press

Peter, John (1987) Vladimir�s Carrot: Modern Drama and the Modern Imagination. Chicago: University of Chicago Press

Wandor, Michelene (1990) Drama Today: a critical guide to British drama 1970-1990. London: Longman