Course Name	Modern British & American Drama
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Seungjin Baek
	Affiliation	Dept. of English Language and Literature

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

By reading Peter Shaffer's Equus and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, we will study the two playwrights' literary worlds and the social contexts in which the two plays were written.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Shaffer, Peter. Equus. London: Penguin, 1974.

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New: Penguin, 1980.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments: two journals on films, <Equus> and <A Streetcar Named Desire>

Grading Scheme: Attendance(10%), Mid-term Exam(30%), Final Exam(40%), journal(10%),

Presentation(10%)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

Week 1: watching film<Equus>
Week 2: Presentation
Week 3: Presentation
Week 4: Reading Equus
Week 5: Reading Equus
Week 6: Reading Equus

Week 7: Reading Equus
Week 8: Mid-term Exam
Week 9: watching film<A Streetcar Named Desire>
Week 10: Presentation
Week 11: Presentation
Week 12: Reading A Streetcar Named desire
Week 13: Reading A Streetcar Named desire
Week 14: Reading A Streetcar Named desire

Week 15: Final Exam

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 82-55-751-5887                           e-mail: sjbaek@gnu.ac.kr