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| 0680-4046-01 | American Playwrights: Poetics and History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 4.0
Course description
The seminar deals with a number of major plays by prominent American playwrights in the context of the history of the American theatre. We will examine poetic principles in the plays of Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee and discuss these dramatists' critical reception.