英文简介 | English & American Drama and Film is a comprehensive course designed for Chinese English learners of the English language, especially those students who are interested in English and American drama, hope to enrich their literary acquirements, and improve their English skills. The course integrates the introduction to English and American drama, reading of classical plays, appreciation of the films adapted from these plays, and drama performance.
By effectively combining the two distinct artistic forms of drama and film, this course aims to acquaint non-English majors with a general knowledge of the principal works in English and American drama, stimulate their interest in reading the original plays, and enhance their English proficiency and aesthetic taste.
This course plans to teach six English and American plays, and briefly introduce to students the historical developments of English and American drama, and concerned playwrights’ literary careers, guidelines for their composition and the artistic characteristics of their plays. The six plays that will be discussed in class are Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, The Crucible by Arthur Miller, and A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. |
发布评论