Award-Winning Playwrights
ENGL 281
Fall 2018
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AFAM 279, THEA 280 |
With textual analysis and intellectual criticism at its core, this course examines the dramatic work of award-winning playwrights through theoretical, performative, and aesthetic frames. The first half of our investigation explores companion texts written by premier playwrights. In the latter end of the course, we examine singular texts written by acclaimed newcomers. A select range of reviews and popular press publications help to supplement our discussions. In all cases, we are interested in surveying the ways in which these playwrights work within varying modes of dramatic expression and focus their plays on such topics as class, ethnicity, era, disability, gender, locale, nationality, race, and/or sexuality. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (AFAM-MN)(AFAM)(ENGL)(ENGL-Literature)(THEA) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 50% - 74% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Major readings include the following plays and select production reviews:
Nilo Cruz, Anna in the Tropics
Nilo Cruz, Two Sisters and A Piano
debbie tucker green, Born Bad
debbie tucker green, Stoning Mary
Katori Hall, The Mountaintop
Tony Kushner, Angels in America
Tracy Letts, August: Osage County
Tarrel Alvin McCraney, The Brothers Size
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton: The Revolution
Lynn Nottage, Intimate Apparel
Lynn Nottage, Ruined
Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park
Suzan-Lori Parks, Topdog/Underdog
Suzan-Lori Parks, Venus
Joe Penhall, Blue/Orange
Joe Penhall, Some Voices
Paula Vogel, How I Learned to Drive
Paula Vogel, The Minneola Twins
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Examinations and Assignments:
Assignments include: mandatory discussion posts, short papers, individual presentation, group presentation project, and Analytical Final Paper. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Literatures of Difference requirement and contributes toward the American Literature, Race & Ethnicity, Theory & Literary Forms, and Creative Writing concentrations of the English Major.
This course counts towards the Theater Major as a dramatic literature course. |
| Instructor(s): McMahon,Rashida Z. Shaw Times: .M.W.F. 09:50AM-10:40AM; Location: 116MTV102; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: -6 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 3 | FR: 4 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 5 | 1st Ranked: 1 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 1 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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