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Poslední úprava: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. (19.09.2023)
<br> Schedule: Week 1 (3.10) Introduction Week 2 (10.10) David Mamet American Buffalo (1977) & Oleanna (1992) Week 3 (17.10) Luis Valdez Zoot Suit (1978) & I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges! (1986) Week 4 (24.10) Sam Shepard Buried Child (1978) & True West (1980) Week 5 (31.10) Marsha Norman ‘night Mother (1982) & Paula Vogel How I Learned to Drive (1997) Week 6 (7.11) Tony Kushner Angels in America (1990, 1991) Week 7 (14.11) Suzan-Lori Parks Top Dog/Underdog (2001) Week 8 (21.11) Bruce Norris Clybourne Park (2010) Week 9 (28.11) Wallace Shawn Grasses of a Thousand Colors (2009) & Anne Washburn Mr Burns (2012) Week 10 (5.12) Lynn Nottage Sweat (2015) Week 11 (12.12) Tracy Letts August: Osage County (2007) & Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins Appropriate (2014) Week 12 (19.12) Jackie Sibblies Drury Fairview (2018) Week 13 (2.1) Reserve Week 14 (9.1) Conclusion, feedback session, discussion of final research projects Please note: students must enroll in the course by week two of the semester. Students attempting to enroll on week 3 or later will not be accepted. |
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Poslední úprava: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. (12.09.2023)
Primary materials: Jacobs-Jenkins, Brandon. Appropriate. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2016. Kushner, Tony. Angels in America, Part One & Two. New York: Theatre Communications, 1993, 1994. LaBute, Neil. The Shape of Things. London: Faber and Faber, 2001. Letts, Tracy. August: Osage County. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2009. Mamet, David. Plays 1. London: Methuen, 1994. Norman, Marsha. ‘night Mother. Ed. Walter Levy. Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1999. Norman, Marsha. Collected Plays. Lyme: Smith & Kraus, 1998. Norris, Bruce. Clybourne Park. London: Nick Hern, 2010. Nottage, Lynn. Sweat. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2015. Parks, Suzan-Lori. Top Dog/Underdog. Ed. Matthew Roudané. Drama Essentials: An Anthology of Plays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007. Shepard, Sam. Buried Child. Ed. Walter Levy. Modern Drama: Selected Plays from 1879 to the Present. Upper Saddle River: Prentice Hall, 1999. Shepard, Sam. Seven Plays. New York: Bantam, 1984. Sibblies Drury, Jackie. Fairview New York: TCG, 2019. Valdez, Luis. Zoot Suit and Other Plays. Houston: Arte Publico,1992. Vogel, Paula. How I Learned to Drive. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1999. Washburn, Anne. Mr Burns and Other Plays. New York: TCG, 2017. Selected rsecondary materials: Bell, John. “American Drama in the Postwar Period.” A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture. Ed. Josephine G. Hendin. Malden MA: Blackwell, 2004. 110-148. Bigsby, Christopher. A Critical Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1985. Vol. 3. Bigsby, Christopher. Contemporary American Playwrights. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. Bigsby, Christopher. Modern American Drama 1945-1990. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992. Bloom, Harold ed. David Mamet. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2004. Elam, Harry J. Taking it to the Streets: The Social Protest Theater of Luis Valdez and Amiri Baraka. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001. Fisher, James. The Theater of Tony Kushner: Living Past Hope. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. Hill, Eroll G. and James V. Hatch. A History of African American Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003. Krasner, David. American Drama 1945-2000: An Introduction. Malden MA: Backwell, 2006. Malkin, Jeanette R. Memory-Theatre and Postmodern Drama. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1999. Roudané, Matthew ed. The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002. Saddik, Annette J. Contemporary American Drama. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007. Savran, David. Taking it Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998 Schmidt, Kerstin. The Theater of Transformation: Postmodernism in American Drama. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005. Shank, Theodore. Beyond the Boundaries: American Alternative Theatre. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2002. Thompson, Graham. American Culture in the 1980s. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2007. Vorlicky, Robert. ed. Tony Kushner in Conversation. Ann Arbor: Michigan, 1998. Whitfield, Stephen J. The Culture of the Cold War. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996. Wilkerson, Margaret B. “From Harlem to Broadway: African American Women Playwrights at Mid-Century.” The Cambridge Companion to American Women Playwrights. Ed. Brenda Murphy. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. 134-154.
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Poslední úprava: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. (12.09.2023)
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Poslední úprava: doc. Clare Wallace, M.A., Ph.D. (17.03.2015)
Course descriptions are available at http://ualk.ff.cuni.cz/current-students.html Please note: students must enroll in the course by week two of the semester. Students attempting to enroll on week 3 or later will not be accepted. |