• The course aims at introducing students to European and American post-war drama, focusing of close readings of selected texts by key dramatists as well as placing these works in historical and aesthetic context. At the end of the course the students are expected to be familiar with the developments of post-war drama from absurd to postmodern theatre, to know major post-war dramatists and representative work of theirs, and to be able to analyse and place selected drama texts in their historical context as well as in the context of theatre history on the basis of their formal style and thematic subject/approach.

At the end of the course the students are expected 

• to be familiar with the developments of post-war drama from absurd to postmodern theatre

• to know major post-war dramatists and representative work of theirs

• to be able to analyse and place selected drama texts in their historical context as well as in the context of theatre history on the basis of their formal style and thematic subject/approach

• to be aware of the major themes and stylistic features of modern and contemporary European and American drama

• to have acquired skills in research and presentation

• to have developed their skill in academic essay writing in their field of specialisation ( theatre studies).