Twentieth- and Twenty- First-Century Drama

A study of drama and performance from World War II to the present. Topics mayinclude theater of the absurd; musical theater; political theater; expandingexplorations of gender, sexual, racial, and ethnic identities; installations,“happenings,” and performance art. Writers may include Edward Albee,Samuel Beckett, Lillian Hellman, Suzan-Lori Parks, Harold Pinter, Wole Soyinka,Tennessee Williams, August Wilson, and recent experimental dramatists andperformance artists.