School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature
Course Credit
ECTS Credit
Course Type
Instructional Language
Programs that can take the course
In this course, students will learn the social, political, historical, philosophical and cultural characteristics of the period, dramatic will learn about genres and traditions. Read and analyze prominent theatrical works and analyze major plays. will learn about the authors.
Textbook and / or References
1. Pygmalion (1913) - Bernard Shaw
2. Waiting for Godot (1953) - Samuel Beckett
3. Look Back in Anger (1956) - John Osborne
4. The Dumb Waiter (1957) - Harold Pinter
5. Saved - Edward Bond
This course aims to provide an analytical survey of the first part of 20th century (British) theater (1900-1960s). aims to.
1. Adequate knowledge of the basic characteristics, roots and developmental stages of 20th century theater (at undergraduate level) to have knowledge.
2. To be able to produce analytical approaches to the major plays of the twentieth century.
3. To be able to identify specific features of the basic dramatic dynamics in twentieth century plays.
4. Period the characteristics of the social and historical background that prepared the ground for the playwrights to produce their plays to learn.
5. To compare and contrast earlier and later dramatic works with the plays produced in this period.
Week 1: The theoretical, social and literary background of 20th century theater; Irish Abbey theater
Week 2: In the theater realism and social realism
Week 3: Theater of ideas; Bernard Shaw and Pygmalion (1913)
Week 4: Brecht and the epic theater
Week 5: Theater of the absurd; Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot (1953)
Week 6: Theater of the absurd; Samuel Beckett and Waiting for Godot (1953)
Week 7: Harold Pinter's "comedy of menace" and The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Week 8: Harold Pinter's "comedy of menace" and The Dumb Waiter (1957)
Week 9: The Angry Young Men movement and the Kitchen Sink theater
Week 10: The Angry Young Men movement and the Kitchen Sink theater
Week 11: Edward Bond and Saved (1965)
Week 12: Edward Bond and Saved (1965)
Tentative Assesment Methods
• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Quizzes 30 %
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