Theatre 217 - MODERN EUROPEAN DRAMA I

The plays, theatres, and playwrights of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe. A leap from Buchner to Ibsen, Strindberg, Shaw, Chekhov, Wedekind, and Gorky onwards to the widespread experimentation of the 1920s and earlier avant garde (e.g., Jarry, Artaud, Stein, Witkiewicz, Pirandello, Mayakovsky, Fleisser, early Brecht). Special attention to issues of gender, class, warfare, and other personal/political foci. Attendance may be required at selected performances.