Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Introduction to Literatures in English Drama II 2 Credits Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026

Syllabus for Introduction to Literatures in English - Drama - II 2 credits

Major · English · Semester 3 · SY BA · 2 credits · 50 marks · 30 hours

The University sets this paper under Scheme III only, so your college may not run it.

Module 1

Types of Comedy: Romantic Comedy, Satire or Satirical Comedy, Farce
Types of Tragedy: Revenge Tragedy, Heroic Drama,
Modern Indian Theatre: Tagore’s Contribution to Theatre, Parsi Theatre, IPTA, Folk Theatre, Contemporary Theatre
Modern European and American Theatre: Theatre of Absurd, Theatre of Cruelty, Poor Theatre, Off-Broadway Theatre and Black Theatre

Module 2: (Renaissance Drama)

Ben Jonson: Volpone or The Fox OR
Thomas Middleton and William Rowley: The Changeling

Reference Books

1 Aristotle. Poetics. Translated by Malcolm Heath, Penguin Classics, 1996.
2 Ahuja, Chaman. Contemporary Theatre of India. National Book Trust, India, 2012.
3 Bentley, Eric. The Life of the Drama. Applause, 2000.
4 Bentley, Eric. The Theory of the Modern Stage. Penguin, 1992.
5 Brockett, Oscar G., and Franklin J. Hildy. History of the Theatre. 10th ed., Pearson, 2007.
6 Carlson, Marvin. Theories of the Theatre: A Historical and Critical Survey. Cornell UP, 1993.
7 Cohn, Ruby. Samuel Beckett: The Comic Gamut. Rutgers UP, 1962.
8 Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. Bloomsbury, 2001.
9 Fischer-Lichte, Erika. The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics. Routledge, 2008.
10 Gussow, Mel. Conversations with Stoppard. Grove Press, 1995.
11 Jonson, Ben. Volpone. Peacock Classics
12 Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge UP, 2002.
13 Krasner, David. A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Wiley- Blackwell, 2005.
14 Middleton, Thomas and William Rowley. The Changeling https://emed.folger.edu/sites/default/files/folger_encodings/pdf/EMED-Change- reg-3.pdf
15 Nicoll, Allardyce. British Drama. Barnes & Noble, 1973.
16 Nicoll, Allardyce. World Drama: From Aeschylus to Anouilh. Harcourt, 1976.
17 Rangacharya, Adya. The Natyasastra. Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd, New Delhi, 2014
18 Styan, J. L. Modern Drama in Theory and Practice. Cambridge UP, 1981.
19 Styan, J. L. The Elements of Drama. Cambridge UP, 1960.
20 Vatsayayan, Kapila. Bharata: The Natyasastra. 2001.
21 Williams, Raymond. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht. Penguin, 1973.
22 Worthen, W. B. Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater. UC Press, 1992.
23 Talwar, Urmil and Bandana Chakraborty eds. Contemporary Indian Drama: Astride Two Traditions. Rawat Publications, New Delhi, 2005.
24 https://epgp.inflibnet.ac.in/epgpdata/uploads/epgp_content/S000451PA/P00152 7/M016630/ET/1466142739P1M3TEXT.pdf

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