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MEG-17 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – American Drama: An Introduction
- Unit 1 – The Beginning of American Drama
- Unit 2 – Influences
- Unit 3 – Emergence of forms in American Drama
Block 2 – Musicals and Farce
- Unit 1 – What is a Musical?
- Unit 2 – Key Elements of Musical
- Unit 3 – The Necessity of Musicals
- Unit 4 – Royall Tyler’s The Contrast As A Farce
- Unit 5 – What is a Farce?
- Unit 6 – William Dean Howells’ Self-Sacrifice As A Farce
Block 3 – Naturalism/ Realism
- Unit 1 – Naturalism/Realism: The Concept
- Unit 2 – Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the Sun As A Realist Play
- Unit 3 – Lorraine Hansberry‘s A Raisin in the Sun As A Marxist Play
Block 4 – The Twentieth Century Poetic Drama
- Unit 1 – Origin of Poetic Drama in the Early Twentieth Century
- Unit 2 – T.S.Eliot’s Contribution to Poetic Drama
- Unit 3 – T.S. Eliot’s A Family Reunion as a Poetic Drama
- Unit 4 – Modernism in T.S. Eliot’s A Family Reunion (Ms. Pritha Banerjee)
Block 5 – Absurd Drama
- Unit 1 – The Idea of the Absurd Drama
- Unit 2 – Absurd Drama: Technique
- Unit 3 – Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf: Contextualizing the Text
- Unit 4 – Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf as an Absurd drama
Block 6 – Expressionism
- Unit 1 – Expressionism: The Concept
- Unit 2 – The Technique of Expressionism
- Unit 3 – Eugene O Neill’s The Emperor Jones as an Exposition of Expressionism
- Unit 4 – Eugene O Neill as a Pioneer of Psycho`logical Drama
Block 7 – Avant Gardism
- Unit 1 – The Idea of Avant Garde
- Unit 2 – Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie as an Avant Garde Play
- Unit 3 – Theme of Social Protest in Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menageri
