ENG 362MODULE 5 159NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES COURSE CODE: ENG 362 COURSE TITLE: ENGLISH DRAMA
ENG 362ENGLISH DRAMA 160ENG 362 ENGLISH DRAMA Course TeamNorbert Oyibo Eze (Course Developer/Writer) - UNN Prof. Olu Obafemi (Course Editor)–NIPSS Dr. Onyeka Iwuchukwu (Course Coordinator) - NOUN NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA COURSE GUIDE
ENG 362MODULE 5 161National Open University of Nigeria Headquarters 14/16 Ahmadu Bello Way Victoria Island,Lagos Abuja Office 5 Dar es Salaam Street Off Aminu Kano Crescent Wuse II, Abuja e-mail:[email protected] URL:Published by National Open University of Nigeria Printed 2013 ISBN: 978-058-856-6 All Rights Reserved
ENG 362ENGLISH DRAMA 162CONTENTSPAGE Introduction…………………………………………………..iv What you will Learn in this Course………………………….iv Course Aims………………………………………………….iv Course Objectives……………………………………………v Working through the Course………………………………...v Course Materials……………………………………………..vi Study Units…………………………………………………..vi Textbooks and References…………………………………...vii Presentation Schedule………………………………………..vii Assignment File………………………………………………vii Assessment…………………………………………………...vii Final Examination and Grading……………………………...viii Course Marking Scheme……………………………………..viii Course Overview…………………………………………….viii Facilitators/Tutors and Tutorials……………………………..ix Summary……………………………………………………..x
ENG 362MODULE 5 163INTRODUCTION English drama- from the Elizabethan age to the present is fascinating. Its playwrights have created masterpieces. The plays crafted by the geniuses of English theatre are indeed wide-ranging in scope and universal in appeal, showcasing greatly the loves, joys and travails of our existence. It is in recognition of this fact that a popular American theatre director, Clurman (1974) declares that: Shakespeare and other masters of the past are, as Jan Knott and others have pointed out, our contemporaries. Their greatness transcends the limits of time and many cultural differences; in the theatre, they reveal their contemporaneity only when they are felt and projected in response to our innermost need(pp.164-5). ENG 362 English Drama is a 3 credit units’course. It focuses on the evolution and development of English drama from Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe, through William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson to John Osborne. The course is intended to provide you with adequate knowledge of the technicalities and themes of the playwrights; and this will be achieved through painstaking analysis and interpretation of selected plays. The course consists of 20 units and each unit examines a specific theme within the scope of the course. The course guide gives you an idea of what the course entails, what you are expected to grasp in each unit; what course materials you will be using and how you can work your way through the materials. It includes tutor-marked assignments contained in a separate file to be sent to you. However, a good knowledge of the English folk drama is a prerequisite for this course.
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