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Assignment files.
SES #	TOPICS	ASSIGNMENTS
1	Introduction and Overview
2	Shaw's Pygmalion and the Drama of Language
3	Pygmalion from Page to Screen
4	Pygmalion, My Fair Lady, and the Musical Drama
5	Pirandello's Henry IV and Psychological Relativity
6	Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children
7	Brechtian Politics and Dramaturgy(cont.)
8	Beckett, Happy Days	Essay #1 due
9	Beckett, Pinter, and Domestic Absurdism
10	Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
11	Streetcar, Poetic Realism, and the Method
12	Hwang, M. Butterfly	Essay #1 revision due
13	Wilson, The Piano Lesson
14	Williams, Hwang, Wilson: American Dreams	Essay #2 due
15	Soyinka, Kongi's Harvest	Read your outside play if you haven't already Begin planning your final essays
16	Smith, Twilight: Los Angeles, 2002
17	Twilight Reflections, and Kushner, Angels in America, Part 1
18	Kushner, Angels in America, Parts 1 and 2
19	Angels Reflections	Outside play reports begin
20	Frayn, Copenhagen, Streetcar
21	Stoppard, Hapgood
22	Stoppard	Reports (cont.)
23	Churchill, A Number
24	Conclusions	Final essay due

Sample Essays

The work below is presented courtesy of the students, and used with permission.

Roe, David. "The Search for Meaning." (PDF)

Anonymous student. "Violent and Isolating Potentials of Familial Relationships in Beckett's Happy Days and Churchill's A Number." (PDF)

Lam, Jessica. "Consequences of Anglicizing Gaelic Names." (PDF)

Hollenbach, Kate. "The Women in Copenhagen and Happy Days." (PDF)