Modern Drama in Literature and Art
THST S393 (CRN: 30092)
Instructors: Kimberly Jannarone
Dates: Session B, June 30 - August 1, 2025
Course Mode: In-Person
Meeting Times: MW 1.00-4.15
Distributional Requirements: Humanities
In-person Course. This seminar reads illustrative texts of dramatic literature from the Anglo-European world in, roughly, the twentieth century and the two adjacent "turns of the century." We will read with an eye toward discovering the unique ways authors adjusted theatrical form, content, and event to new conditions of modernity. Our specific focus will be close-reading plays, looking at how playwrights create worlds through devices such as plot, characterization, imagery, etc., as well as through the conception of the audience/performer relationship; considerations of time, tempo, musicality; visual dramaturgy; non-linearity and repetition; coding and transcribing; and other dramaturgical devices that took on unique importance and new forms in the modern era. We will read one play a week, establishing its historical context and examining different approaches of playwriting and world-making. For college students and beyond. 1 Credit. Session B: June 30 – August 1. Tuition: $5270.