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WAGS0206B-S10

Contempory Women Playwrights
Please register via THEA 0206B

Contemporary Women Playwrights
The course will include readings and discussion of the work of a number of the most influential and interesting American, Canadian, and European playwrights of the 1970s to the present. Authors to be explored include: Maria Irene Fomes, Caryl Churchill, Suzan-Lori Parks, Adrienne Kennedy, Ntozake Shange, Judith Thompson, Naomi Wallace, Shelagh Stephenson, and others. The playwrights' concerns range from the domestic to the apocalyptic, and their stylistic choices are equally wide ranging. In addition to the study of individual works, the course will also include an overview of the authors' relationships to the culture and to the art form. 3 hrs. lect.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22741
Subject Code:
WAGS
Course Number:
0206
Section Identifier:
B

Course

WAGS 0206

All Sections in Spring 2010

Spring 2010

WAGS0206A-S10 Lecture (Faraone)
WAGS0206B-S10 Lecture (Faraone)