LITR224

(Formerly LITR 287) A study of the text and performances of characteristic American plays including 19th century melodrama, ethnic productions, musical comedy, and drama. The relationship between drama and society and between text and performance will be explored through the study of representative dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, August Wilson, David Mamet, and others.