Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century

A study of drama written from 1800 to the end of World War II. Topics may includerealism and surrealism; melodrama; theater of cruelty; transnational influencesand movements; nationalisms; political theater; feminist themes. Writers mayinclude Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Gilbert and Sullivan, SusanGlaspell, Zora Neale Hurston, Henrik Ibsen, Sean O’Casey, Clifford Odets,Eugene O’Neill, George Bernard Shaw,August Strindberg, J.M. Synge,Rabindranath Tagore, Oscar Wilde, and Thornton Wilder