Contemporary European Drama

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Development of the drama from 1935 to the present. Plays by such authors as Brecht, Durrenmatt, Weiss; Anouilh, Sartre, Camus, Genet, Ghelderode, Beckett, Ionesco, Arrabal; Betti; Lagerkvist; Mrozek. Contemporary theater theory and practice in the work of such writers as Brecht, Artaud, and Grotowski and by such groups as the Living Theater. (Not open to students who have completed Comparative Literature 71.) This course is the same as ENGL 3611.