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Richard Brinsley Sheridan and “School for Scandal”
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Why study drama? What makes Brit drama unique? Brit Drama 1890-present. |
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Introduction to Oscar Wilde and Lady Windermere’s Fan
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Why study drama? What makes Brit drama unique? Brit Drama 1890-present. |
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Tropes of Victorian women in drama
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Why study drama? What makes Brit drama unique? Brit Drama 1890-present. |
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Life of Oscar Wilde; the “dandy"
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Understanding Wilde’s context: the labor of effortlessness and the “dandy”; fantasy in the age of realism? Failure of humanism and modernism? |
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Oscar Wilde and Women
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Understanding Wilde’s context: the labor of effortlessness and the “dandy”; fantasy in the age of realism? Failure of humanism and modernism? |
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Introduction to Mrs. Warren's Profession
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Understanding Shaw’s moral and ethical philosophy |
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George Bernard Shaw and Women
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Understanding Shaw’s moral and ethical philosophy |
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Shaw and the "social discussion play"
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Understanding the social discussion play. |
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Shaw and Philosophy
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Understanding Shaw’s moral and ethical philosophy |
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Introduction to Noel Coward & Coward and the Occult
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Introduction to Noel Coward & Coward and the Occult |
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John Osborne's Look Back in Anger
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Understanding “modernism” |
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Look Back in Anger and 'Kitchen Sink Realism'
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Understanding “modernism” |
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The influence of Bertolt Brecht on British Theatre
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Understanding Epic Theatre and realism |
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Shelagh Delaney's 'A Taste of Honey'
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Understanding Epic Theatre and realism |
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Agit-prop theatre; Oh What a Lovely War!
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Understanding agit-prop theatre; theatre and protest |
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Agit-prop theatre; Oh What a Lovely War! & Joan Littlewood and British mid-century politics
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Understanding agit-prop theatre; theatre and protest |
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Introduction to Samuel Beckett and harold Pinter
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Understanding Formalism, Absurdism and Symbolism |
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Introduction to Caryl Churchill
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Understanding Formalism, Absurdism and Symbolism |
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Feminism and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls
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Understanding Formalism, Absurdism and Symbolism |
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Feminism and Caryl Churchill's Top Girls II
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Understanding Formalism, Absurdism and Symbolism |
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Verbatim Theatre and Documentary Drama
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Understanding a verbatim theatre and documentary drama |
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Robin Soan’s Talking to Terrorists
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Understanding a verbatim theatre and documentary drama |
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Postmodern Drama
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Understanding self-reflexivity; postmodernism |
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Sarah Kane's Blasted
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Understanding self-reflexivity; postmodernism |
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