DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

THE UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD

Course: European Drama in Translation
M.A. III Semester; July- November 2018
Optional
Credits: 4
Instructor: Sindhu Menon
This course is intended as an introductory survey of some significant European plays In translation. The
idea is to familiarize students with a major genre of European Literature. The plays themselves will be
read in class, studied in detail and analyzed. Backgrounds to European theatre as a whole will be
provided and critical discussion will be examined. It is essential for each student to have a hard copy of
the text in class. Students will be shown film versions of the plays where possible. Multiple genres within
Drama like the Classical Tragedy, the Peasant play, Epic Theatre, the Absurd Play, Romantic tragi-
comedy, the Mystical Play etc will be studied. The plays start with classical Greece, moe on to the 19th
century and end with the late 20th century.

Primary texts

Sophocles: Oedipus Rex (429 B.C)

Henrik Ibsen: The Master Builder (1892)

Edmund Rostand: Cyrano de Bergerac (1897)
Anton Chekov: Uncle Vanya (1897)
Luigi Pirandello: Six Characters in Search of an Author (1921)
Fredrico Garcia Lorca: Blood Wedding (1932)
Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Chalk Circle (1944)
Eugene Ionesco: The Painting (1954)
Felix Mitterer: Stigma (1982)
Helene` Cixous: Black Sail, White Sail (1994)
Recommended Reading

Williams, Raymond. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. Penguin Books, Great Britain: 1952.

Gale, Maggie B and John F Deeny (eds) . The Routledge Drama Anthology and Source Book . Routledge, London: 2010.
Erika Fischer Lichte. History of European Drama and Theatre. Routledge, London:2002.

Modes of Assessment 40% of the evaluation will be based on internal assessment which will consist of the best two written
class tests out of three and 60% will be from the end semester examination..