20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN DRAMA

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American Literature Course. This course presents a survey of work by major American dramatists of the twentieth century with a focus on plays produced from 1950 to the present. We will focus in particular on the relationship between the plays and the social and political conditions they reflect. We will study the work of playwrights including Eugene O'Neill, Clifford Odets, Lillian Hellman, Arthur Miller, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, David Mamet, Tony Kushner, August Wilson and Adrienne Kennedy.Faculty: D. GUSSMAN