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Post-Modernism: Reading List

The TPA4202: Modern Drama course at Bayero University Kano focuses on the examination of modern drama and its playwrights, emphasizing movements like modernism and post-modernism. The course aims to equip students with an understanding of modern drama's characteristics and its differences from classical drama, culminating in assessments and a final examination. Students are required to submit a modernist critique of a selected play-text, adhering to specific guidelines and formatting requirements.

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Post-Modernism: Reading List

The TPA4202: Modern Drama course at Bayero University Kano focuses on the examination of modern drama and its playwrights, emphasizing movements like modernism and post-modernism. The course aims to equip students with an understanding of modern drama's characteristics and its differences from classical drama, culminating in assessments and a final examination. Students are required to submit a modernist critique of a selected play-text, adhering to specific guidelines and formatting requirements.

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Department of Theatre & Performing Arts

Faculty of Communication
Bayero University Kano
Second Semester 2023/2024 Session
TPA4202: Modern Drama
Course Description
Modern drama is a course designed for the examination of drama and dramatic traditions of
the modern age. The focus will be on modern playwrights. Also, special emphasis shall be
given to dramatic movements such as modernism and post-modernism as part of the
influences on modern and contemporary drama. Modern drama signifies the struggle for self-
realization and freedom; the turn from theatrical speech in classical drama to the intimacies of
interpersonal exchange which include silences, pauses, and inarticulateness; and the
exploration of anxiety and alienation, a feeling of waiting for something inscrutably
expressed in modern drama as against classical drama.
Course Objectives
i. To equip student with the basics of the ‘modern’ in modern drama
ii. To delineate the difference between the modern and classical drama
iii. To equip students with the ability to identify and critique the modern in modern
drama
Outline
Weeks 1 & 2
 Introduction: The concept of the modern, modernity/modernisation/modern drama,
modernism, expressionism, the post-modern
 Features of Modern Drama
 Classical Drama versus Modern Drama
Weeks 3 & 4
Tom Stoppard’s Professional Foul & Bode Ojoniyi’s Our Wife has gone Mad
Weeks 5
First Continuous Assessment
Week 6 & 7
Henrik Ibsen: A Doll’s House
Weeks 8
Tosin Tume’s Blood on My Hands
Weeks 9 & 10
Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author & Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for
Godot
Week 11
Second Continuous Assessment
Week 12
Revision and Examination
Course Requirement
Attendance to all classes is mandatory except with express permission. Continuous
Assessment attracts a total of 40% while final Examination attracts 60%.
Reading List
Bentley, E. (1992). In Search of Theatre. New York: Applause Theatre Books.
Hartnol, P. (2012). The Theatre: A Concise History (Fourth ed.). London: Thames and Hudson Ltd.
Jeyifo, B. (2002). African Modern Drama. New York: W. W Norton Company.
Krasner, D. (Ed.). (2008). Theatre in Theory 1900 - 2000. Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Krasner, D. (2012). A History of Modern Drama. London: Blackwell.
Continuous Assessment
Question:
Write a modernist critique of any play-text from the selection for this course. Your critique
should be/include:
i. Minimum of 2000 words, typed, double spaced and in New Times Roman font
ii. In-text and end reference should be in APA Format (6th or 7th edition)
iii. Theory/theoretical background clearly stated and implicated
iv. An appropriate title
Submission Guideline
i. Submit on or before Friday, 20th December, 2024
ii. All submissions will eventually be presented in class before the semester elapses.

Course Coordinator
Dameh J Ali – djali.tfs@buk.edu.ng

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